This bill amends existing criminal and public records laws and creates new procedural authorities. It revises RCW 9A.46.020 to redefine harassment to explicitly include electronic communications, makes ordinary harassment a gross misdemeanor and elevates it to a class C felony in specified circumstances (including prior harassment against the same victim, threats to kill, or harassment of criminal justice participants, elected officials, or election officials tied to their duties). It also makes those targeted categories and their residents eligible for the address confidentiality program and makes false applications or attestations subject to penalties under RCW 40.16.030 or other applicable law. The bill substantially expands and clarifies address confidentiality and nondisclosure procedures across multiple statutes. RCW 40.24.030 is amended to broaden eligibility for the address confidentiality program (including elected officials, certain election officials, criminal justice participants, protected health care providers, and people residing with them), require sworn threat/harassment statements for some applicants, certify participants for four years with a renewal rule, and require the secretary of state to provide signed directive forms to the Department of Licensing (DOL) to update vehicle and license records within 30 days when a completed signed directive is received. It also creates multiple new confidentiality exemptions to chapter 42.56 RCW and related statutes so primary residential addresses, voter registration addresses, assessor/auditor records, and records produced by qualifying personal security measures are generally confidential, with narrow exceptions permitting disclosure only by the person’s express written consent or to identified news media subject to nondissemination and notice requirements. The bill adds new administrative and financial authorities and reporting changes. It creates a legislative member security account in the state treasury and authorizes use of a legislator’s member business expense account and the new account to pay for defined personal security measures necessary because of a legislator’s status, with limits on payments to family and related entities, requirements that charges be the “usual and normal” charge, and amortization and reimbursement of residual value when the official leaves office. It directs the Washington State Patrol to provide security for the legislative houses while in session, to provide personal security at public events when local law enforcement is unable or unwilling, and to perform residence security assessments on request. The bill also revises Title 29B reporting procedures and deadlines (including more detailed disclosure of compensation, entity interests, real property holdings, weekly pre‑election deposit reports, treasurer recordkeeping and inspection rules, filing schedules, and rules for committee dissolution and surplus funds), and expands redaction procedures so elected officials and certain others can request residential address redaction in campaign and public filings. Sections 4, 20, and 21 are declared a new chapter in Title 44 and the act takes effect immediately under an emergency clause. Several definitions and cross‑references are cited throughout (e.g., “personal security measure,” “elected official,” “criminal justice participant”), but the text defining “personal security measure” (section 4) and other portions of the act are not included in the extracted facts. Multiple header amendments and some subsection text are missing from the provided material, so the summary is limited to the provisions and procedural details explicitly contained in the extracted facts.

If enacted, the bill would give a wide range of public officials and criminal justice participants new ways to keep their home addresses off many public records and to get help paying for and installing personal security measures. Practically, eligible people (including elected officials, election staff, prosecutors, judges, certain corrections and law‑enforcement staff, protected health care providers, and household members) could join an expanded address confidentiality program that the secretary of state would certify for four years; county auditors, recorders, and assessors would be required to redact addresses and parcel numbers on public property records within set timeframes, the Department of Licensing must update driver and vehicle records within 30 days when given signed directives, and security recordings and other materials from qualifying security devices would be kept confidential. The Washington State Patrol would also be required to provide security and residence assessments for legislators in certain circumstances, and legislators could use member business expense accounts or a new legislative member security account to pay for authorized security measures subject to amortization and reimbursement rules; the account would be funded by appropriation and reimbursements and require administrative controls by legislative clerks. Those most affected are the named classes of officials and their household members (they gain privacy and security options), county and state record custodians and the secretary of state (who must process applications, redact records, notify affected people on news‑media requests, and implement address‑change directives), the Department of Licensing (which must update records on a deadline), and campaign committees/treasurers (facing more frequent and detailed reporting and recordkeeping duties, including weekly deposit reports in pre‑election periods). Agencies will likely see increased workloads and some new costs to implement redaction, notification, and processing rules (though assessors/recorders may charge reasonable fees and there are waiver rules), and there are new accountability steps (criminal penalties for false nondisclosure applications and required amortization/reimbursement of public funds used for security). Important implementation details are missing from the extracts—most notably the precise definition of "personal security measures" in section 4 and some cross‑referenced provisions—so the exact scope of allowed security spending and some administrative procedures is uncertain. The bill contains an emergency clause and would take effect immediately.