Amends RCW 18.410.020 to require the department to conduct an ongoing, periodic review of the professional licenses it regulates. Beginning in 2024 the department must annually review approximately 10% of licenses, complete reviews for all licenses within 10 years and repeat every 10 years thereafter, and submit an annual electronic report by August 31 to the chief clerk of the House, the secretary of the Senate, and each legislator. Each report must recommend whether each reviewed license should be terminated, continued, or modified, may require information from affected professional boards or other parties, and must provide notice to relevant boards/commissions and to licensees not regulated by a board before a review begins. Reports must include specified data covering the five most recently completed fiscal years and the immediately preceding five calendar years (or less if unavailable), and for annually renewed licenses must include a cost analysis of moving to a two-year renewal period. Legislative committees may request an extended analysis that addresses whether a license meets listed policy concerns (including fraud, health or safety problems, contract completion risk, protection of non-contract parties, transient providers, knowledge imbalances, and systematic information shortfalls) and must recommend the least restrictive regulation consistent with the public interest when chapter 18.120 RCW applies, using the least restrictive method set out in RCW 18.120.010. Professions with an average hourly wage below 125 percent of the statewide minimum wage are eligible for consideration of options to reduce the renewal fee. This is a procedural regulatory change amending an existing statute to add recurring review and reporting duties, specify report content and timelines, and require least‑restrictive analysis where chapter 18.120 RCW applies. The extracted text repeatedly refers to “the department” without naming which state department is meant, does not include the referenced “policies stated” used in the extended analysis, and does not reconcile the 2024 start date with the bill header; those details are unclear from the provided material.

If enacted, the agency identified in RCW 18.410.020 will be required to systematically review about 10% of the professional licenses it oversees every year until it has reviewed all licenses within 10 years, and then repeat that cycle. Boards, commissions, and individual licensees can expect formal notice before reviews and may be asked to supply data; the agency will send an annual electronic report to every legislator by August 31 with recommendations to terminate, continue, or modify each reviewed license and with multi-year data and, for certain low-wage occupations, consideration of lower renewal fees or moving annual renewals to two-year cycles. The most immediate impacts are on the department (larger, recurring review and reporting workload and likely need for more staff or contracting), on boards and licensees (time and recordkeeping to respond to information requests and the real possibility of changes to licensing requirements, fees, or renewal periods), and on the Legislature (more frequent, standardized oversight information). The text leaves key implementation details unclear, including which specific state department is meant, what the referenced “policies stated” require, and why the schedule begins in 2024 despite the bill header; those gaps could affect how quickly reviews start and how they are carried out.