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Senator Cortes

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Member Information

Biennium 2025-26
Chamber Senate
Acronym CORA
District 18
Name Adrian Cortes
Party Democrat
Email Adrian.Cortes@leg.wa.gov
Campaign Contributions (biennium) No Data Available
Campaign Contributions (2009 - Present) No Data Available

28 Sponsored Bills Passed for Biennium 2025-26

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details SB 5141 Requiring that experience-rated group disability income insurers include all applicable rating factors and credibility formulas in rate manual filings with the insurance commissioner.
Details SSB 5149 Expanding the early childhood court program.
Details SSB 5253 Extending special education services to students with disabilities until the end of the school year in which the student turns 22.
Details SSB 5444 Concerning special license plates and personalized license plates.
Details ESSB 5677 Concerning associate development organizations.
Details SB 5820 Concerning the responsibility of certain counties to include freight rail dependent use overlay as part of the transportation element of their comprehensive plan.
Details SB 5944 Concerning language access providers' collective bargaining.
Details 2SSB 5969 Reducing duplication between high school and beyond plans and individualized education program transition plans.
Details SB 5994 Preserving timber tax distributions for school districts with recent school district levy failures.
Details SB 6084 Clarifying the prohibition on voting more than once in an election.
Details SB 6137 Concerning the regulated sports wagering industry.
Details ESSB 5009 Accommodating multiple vehicle types for transporting students.
Details SSB 5030 Improving access to educational services by reducing barriers to obtaining vital records and allowing alternative forms of documentation.
Details SSB 5076 Establishing a Puget Sound nonspot shrimp pot fishery license.
Details ESSB 5192 Concerning school district materials, supplies, and operating costs.
Details ESSB 5202 Ensuring the efficacy of judicial orders as harm reduction tools that increase the safety of survivors of abuse and support law enforcement in their efforts to enforce the law.
Details 2SSB 5358 Concerning career and technical education in sixth grade.
Details ESSB 5552 Concerning the creation of building codes for kit homes.
Details ESSB 5557 Codifying emergency rules to protect the right of a pregnant person to access treatment for emergency medical conditions in hospital emergency departments.
Details SSB 5568 Updating and modernizing the Washington state health plan.
Details E2SSB 5651 Concerning exemptions from garnishment.
Details SB 5716 Expanding the locations where a person can be guilty of unlawful transit conduct to include the Washington state ferries.
Details SSB 5185 Establishing a pilot program that creates a pathway to physician licensure for international medical graduates.
Details 2SSB 5292 Concerning paid family and medical leave rates.
Details SSB 5855 Concerning the use of face coverings by law enforcement officers.
Details SB 6011 Concerning the authority of court of appeals bailiffs to assess threats to court of appeals judicial officers and staff members.
Details SB 6065 Concerning school district transportation vehicle funds.
Details ESSB 6162 Concerning property tax reform.

109 Sponsored Bills Introduced for Biennium 2025-26

Bill Number Bill Description Primary Sponsor
Details SSB 5193 Supporting remote testing options for students enrolled in online school programs.
Details SB 5309 Concerning motor vehicle weight fees applicable to motorcycles.
Details SSB 5331 Strengthening consumer protection through increased insurer accountability for violations of the insurance code.
Details SB 5443 Concerning requirements for fund-raising events of bona fide charitable or nonprofit organizations.
Details SB 5517 Determining state allocations for school staff salaries.
Details SB 5636 Creating Mount St. Helens special license plates.
Details SB 5693 Concerning teacher residency and apprenticeship programs.
Details SB 5723 Concerning covenants, conditions, and restrictions of an airpark.
Details SB 5848 Concerning school district impact fees.
Details SB 5849 Making financial education a graduation requirement in Washington state.
Details SB 5871 Regulating motor vehicle glass repair claims.
Details SB 5876 Concerning false identification as a peace officer.
Details SB 5903 Concerning cemetery district elections.
Details SB 5910 Concerning school district communications to the general public.
Details SB 5950 Celebrating Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Guru Nanak, Guru Gobind Singh, and Vaisakhi.
Details SSB 5681 Concerning the age at which clients of the home and community living administration may receive employment and community inclusion services.
Details SSB 5823 Concerning patient advocates.
Details SSB 5860 Concerning school board compensation.
Details SSB 5861 Encouraging community representation in education.
Details SSB 5943 Concerning the use of school impact fees.
Details SSB 5951 Expanding access to albuterol in public and private schools.
Details 2SSB 6037 Concerning fire protection districts.
Details SB 6040 Concerning the manner and method for receiving promotional entries.
Details SB 6115 Concerning comprehensive cancer education programs.
Details SSB 6351 Increasing fiscal resources for students and children by providing targeted sales tax exemptions for schools and certain before-and-after school care programs and arts and cultural classes.
Details SB 5007 Supporting students who are chronically absent and at risk for not graduating high school.
Details 2SSB 5060 Increasing the number of law enforcement agency and county corrections officer personnel.
Details SSB 5064 Creating an advisory council on rare diseases.
Details SB 5070 Concerning prohibiting fees on certain acts of commerce to protect tipped wages for workers while reducing the financial burden on employers.
Details SSB 5075 Concerning cost sharing for prenatal and postnatal care.
Details SB 5080 Making financial education instruction a graduation requirement.
Details SSB 5082 Creating a housing assistance program for youth enrolled in extended foster care.
Details 2SSB 5095 Concerning school districts' authority to contract indebtedness for school construction.
Details SSB 5099 Protecting the public from gun violence by establishing additional requirements for the business operations of licensed firearms dealers.
Details SB 5100 Standardizing basic training and certification requirements for long-term care workers who provide in-home care for their family members, including spouses or domestic partners.
Details SB 5113 Concerning cost-of-living adjustments for plan 1 retirees of the teachers' retirement system and public employees' retirement system.
Details SSB 5121 Concerning health plan coverage of fertility-related services.
Details SB 5126 Establishing a statewide network for student mental and behavioral health.
Details 2SSB 5179 Establishing a complaint process to address willful noncompliance with certain state education laws.
Details 2SSB 5186 Concerning local funding for school district facilities.
Details SB 5187 Providing adequate and predictable student transportation.
Details ESSB 5203 Ensuring connectivity for Washington wildlife through safe passages.
Details SB 5210 Establishing the ninth grade success grant program.
Details SB 5211 Authorizing payment for parental caregivers of minor children with developmental disabilities.
Details SB 5213 Penalizing the possession of fentanyl.
Details SSB 5241 Adding fusion energy to facilities that may obtain site certification for the purposes of chapter 80.50 RCW.
Details SB 5276 Modifying the reimbursement rates for services related to institutions.
Details SB 5307 Concerning special education funding.
Details SB 5320 Creating the state department of natural resources' Smokey Bear special license plates.
Details SSB 5330 Protecting consumers from spiked drinks.
Details SB 5345 Concerning access to personnel records.
Details SB 5352 Increasing student access to free meals served at public schools.
Details SB 5378 Expanding access to grants within the paid family and medical leave insurance program for small school districts.
Details SB 5397 Establishing limits on the percentage of courses taught by faculty without tenure track status at community and technical colleges.
Details SSB 5400 Supporting local news journalism.
Details SB 5411 Concerning the tax treatment of pilates studios and gymnastics facilities.
Details ESSB 5436 Interfering with access to a place of religious worship.
Details SSB 5504 Supporting caregivers who provide complex care services to children with heightened medical needs.
Details SB 5526 Concerning the regulation of tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, and vapor products.
Details SB 5544 Concerning county local roads.
Details SB 5551 Concerning school library information and technology programs.
Details SB 5575 Concerning limitations in parenting plans.
Details SB 5593 Adjusting enrichment levies and local effort assistance.
Details SB 5604 Promoting transit-oriented development.
Details SSB 5626 Creating a wage replacement program for certain Washington workers excluded from unemployment insurance.
Details SB 5692 Creating the Seattle Reign FC special license plate.
Details SB 5717 Establishing a driver work zone and first responder safety course requirement.
Details SB 5718 Providing members of the teachers' retirement system plan 3 and school employees' retirement system plan 3 that were never offered a choice of plan 2 the opportunity to irrevocably transfer to plan 2 for future service.
Details ESSB 5719 Concerning local government hearing examiners.
Details SB 5724 Improving student access to dual credit programs, including career and technical education dual credit programs.
Details SB 5727 Incentivizing grid-connected residential battery energy storage systems.
Details SB 5730 Concerning record checks for certain volunteers and contractors who will have access to children or persons with developmental disabilities.
Details SB 5731 Creating a tenant assistance program.
Details SB 5733 Concerning updating comprehensive plans.
Details SSB 5734 Concerning the interstate bridge replacement toll bond authority.
Details SSB 5738 Permitting individuals retired from the public employees' retirement system, the teachers' retirement system, the school employees' retirement system, and the public safety employees' retirement system additional opportunities to work for up to 1,040 hours per year while in receipt of pension benefits.
Details SSB 5768 Expanding eligibility for the working families' tax credit to everyone age 18 and older.
Details SSB 5770 Providing housing safety, security, and protection by creating the primary residence property tax exemption.
Details SSB 5771 Increasing the working families' tax credit to reflect the economic impact of property taxes incorporated into rental amounts charged to residential tenants.
Details SB 5779 Establishing African diaspora heritage week.
Details SB 5795 Reducing the state sales and use tax rate.
Details SB 5829 Addressing the issuance of confidential identification to investigators employed by the office of the attorney general.
Details SB 5859 Expanding opportunities for competency-based assessments in graduation pathway options.
Details SSB 5574 Providing instruction on Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, Latino American, and Black American history in public schools.
Details SSB 5828 Concerning the Washington college grant and college bound scholarship program for students attending private four-year not-for-profit institutions of higher education in Washington.
Details SSB 5852 Concerning immigrant worker protections.
Details ESSB 6031 Enhancing public safety and enforcement of crimes that impact insurance.
Details SB 6044 Recognizing Diwali and Bandi Chhor Divas.
Details ESSB 6086 Strengthening security for Washington state judicial officers and court personnel.
Details SB 6095 Protecting elected officials and candidates, executive state officers, election officials, and criminal justice participants against threats and incidents of political violence.
Details SB 6111 Protecting children online.
Details SSB 6118 Concerning cardiac emergency response plans in schools.
Details SSB 6130 Celebrating national voter registration day.
Details SB 6157 Concerning wildfire prevention and creating the Washington wildfire prevention and protection council.
Details SB 6159 Strengthening public hospitals.
Details SSB 6160 Improving government efficiency related to reports by state agencies.
Details SB 6175 Concerning ticket sales.
Details SB 6178 Prohibiting the post-loss assignment of benefits in property insurance.
Details SSB 6206 Establishing a pilot program that incentivizes child care providers to care for children of first responders.
Details SB 6212 Creating a families with children benefit pilot program.
Details SB 6218 Directing the withholding of state payments to the federal government if federal funding is withheld due to the existence of a valid Washington state law.
Details SSB 6282 Requiring state registered apprenticeships in the building and construction trades to provide behavioral health and wellness training.
Details SSB 6287 Concerning the preparation, distribution, and sale of kratom products.
Details SSB 6289 Creating a statewide economic development and competitiveness strategic plan.
Details SB 6310 Modifying school district allocations for utilities and insurance operating costs.
Details SB 6320 Concerning alternative learning experiences.
Details SB 6321 Sustaining life-saving and prosperity-building scientific research in Washington by establishing the Washington institute for scientific advancement.
Details SSB 6325 Enhancing higher education procedures.
Details SB 6326 Addressing school district accounting, budgeting, and reporting requirements.

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