Blogs

PSE bill tracking the 2026 Legislative Session

By Rick Chisa posted 30 days ago

  

K-12 Bills = 87

Higher Education Bills = 51

Total Bills = 107 (some bills are listed as both K-12 & Higher Education)

The 2026 Legislative Session includes several high-priority bills focused on stabilizing education funding during a difficult budget year. Key proposals include the supplemental operating budget, rising school operating costs, and higher education funding, as districts and regional universities face serious financial strain. These measures are critical to keeping schools open, buildings maintained, and campuses functioning, while avoiding deeper cuts in higher education that would further displace classified staff.

Other priority bills focus on how schools and employers adapt to changing conditions. Lawmakers are debating proposals on artificial intelligence, including its use in student discipline and whether AI-related impacts should be subject to collective bargaining.

This table includes the major bills PSE is currently tracking and engaging in.

PSE Bill Tracking Lists (download .pdf files)

  Supplemental Operating Budget  HB 2289  SB 5998
  AI use/student discipline  SB 5956
  Albuterol access in schools  HB 2360  SB 5951
  Assessing employers/health costs  HB 2300
  Collective bargaining/AI  HB 1622
  Isolation & restraint interventions  HB 1795
  Higher education funding  HB 2098
  Job classification bargaining  HB 2630
  School board compensation  HB 2366  SB 5860
  School enrichment funding


 HB 2116
 HB 2562
 HB 2580
  School operating costs  HB 2147  SB 5918
  SEBB insurance/eligibility  HB 2160  SB 5883
  Updating school district bid limits  SB 6263
  Workforce education investment account  HB 2612  SB 6276
1 comment
28 views

Permalink

Comments

23 days ago

I don't see the bill our union stood up to support to change the initiative process in WA listed here.  I was very disappointed to testify in support of the change in the initiative process.  The instance of fraud in these situations is rare, not to mention that paying people by the hour for signature gathering is just as problematic when you consider the costs associated.  It would hinder the Constitutional rights we have in WA to bring initiatives from the people. This is one of our best ways to voice our opinions in this process, and it will become even more expensive under this bill.  I'm also curious why our union is supporting this when it isn't directly related to state employees, education, or workers' rights?