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WA State Bills from the 2025 Cultural Agenda:

Cultural sector:

  • HB 1184 (Schmidt): Creating a narrow exemption from overtime provisions for certain nonprofits and small businesses.
  • HB 1613 (Reeves): Concerning ticket sales
  • SB 5443 (Cortes): Concerning requirements for fund-raising events of bona fide charitable or nonprofit organizations.
  • HB 1364 (Orcutt): Increasing the gross revenue threshold for unlicensed bingo, raffles, and amusement games conducted by charitable or nonprofit organizations.
  • SB 5135 (McCune): Concerning school districts’ authority to establish their curriculum

Science:

  • HB 1150 (Berry): Improving Washington’s solid waste management outcomes (Recycling Reform Act)
  • HB 1175 (Shavers): Directing the statewide career and technical education task force to consider educational opportunities for careers in maritime professions.
  • SB 5203 (Salomon): Ensuring connectivity for Washington wildlife through safe passages.
  • HB 1631 (Nance): Designating bull kelp forests as the state marine forest.

Heritage:

  • HB 1017/SB 5046 (Ryu/Wilson, J.): Designating Kimchi Day
  • HB 1658 (Waters): Ensuring dedicated funding for history and heritage museums and county historic preservation programs.
  • HB 1393 (McEntire): Providing public school students with opportunities for cultural expression at commencement ceremonies.
  • SB 5483 (McCune): Preserving history and heritage education.
  • HB 1576 (Walen): Concerning the designation of historic landmarks by cities.
  • SB 5134 (McCune): Requiring public schools to commemorate the contributions of Chinese Americans and Americans of Chinese descent.
  • SB 5574 (Nobles): Providing instruction on Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander history in public schools.
  • SB 5106 (Trudeau): Establishing Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha as state holidays.
  • HB 1731 (Waters): Regarding unclaimed property held by a museum or historical society.

Arts:

  • SB 5486 (Orwall): Concerning open motion picture captioning in motion picture theaters.
  • HB 1205 (Ryu): Prohibiting the knowing distribution of a forged digital likeness
  • HB 1841 (Wylie): Establishing the own your own art purchase program.

To track legislation from the Heritage Caucus bill report, please click here

To track legislation at the state level, please click here (WA Legislature Bill Information page)

To track legislation at the federal level, please click here (WESATF’s quorum site)

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