Washington

Washington: bills from both sides, with enacted laws, hearings, court cases and the legislators who sponsor the bills.

Bills

103 bills: 35 Anti-LGBTQ+, 68 Pro-LGBTQ+. 27 are enacted (0 Anti-LGBTQ+, 27 Pro-LGBTQ+). “Enacted” is the status this tracker records for the bill.

Bills by status
StatusBillsAnti-LGBTQ+Pro-LGBTQ+
Failed753441
Enacted27027
Pending110

Most recent bills

All 103 bills

Titles, summaries and tags are on each bill's page. The Bills list shows them for the bills of Washington: all, Anti-LGBTQ+ or Pro-LGBTQ+.

Bills by year

Introduced each year

Bills introduced each year in Washington, by sideColumns for each year from 2010 to 2026. The numbers are in the table below the chart.0102030402010: 3 Anti-LGBTQ+2011: 1 Pro-LGBTQ+2012: 1 Anti-LGBTQ+, 4 Pro-LGBTQ+2016: 9 Anti-LGBTQ+2018: 2 Anti-LGBTQ+, 1 Pro-LGBTQ+2019: 3 Pro-LGBTQ+2020: 2 Anti-LGBTQ+, 5 Pro-LGBTQ+2021: 1 Pro-LGBTQ+2022: 2 Anti-LGBTQ+, 1 Pro-LGBTQ+2023: 6 Pro-LGBTQ+2024: 6 Anti-LGBTQ+, 12 Pro-LGBTQ+2025: 6 Pro-LGBTQ+2026: 10 Anti-LGBTQ+, 28 Pro-LGBTQ+201020122014201620182020202220242026Bills introduced each year in Washington, by sideColumns for each year from 2010 to 2026. The numbers are in the table below the chart.010203040201120142017202020232026

Enacted, by the year introduced

Enacted bills in Washington by the year they were introduced, by sideColumns for each year from 2010 to 2026. The numbers are in the table below the chart.02462011: 1 Pro-LGBTQ+2012: 1 Pro-LGBTQ+2018: 1 Pro-LGBTQ+2019: 3 Pro-LGBTQ+2020: 1 Pro-LGBTQ+2021: 1 Pro-LGBTQ+2023: 6 Pro-LGBTQ+2024: 4 Pro-LGBTQ+2025: 6 Pro-LGBTQ+2026: 3 Pro-LGBTQ+201020122014201620182020202220242026Enacted bills in Washington by the year they were introduced, by sideColumns for each year from 2010 to 2026. The numbers are in the table below the chart.0246201120142017202020232026
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A bill is counted in the year of its session, and an enacted bill in the year it was introduced. A year with no bill in the data has no column.

Show the numbers
Bills introduced and enacted each year
YearIntroducedIntroduced, Anti-LGBTQ+Introduced, Pro-LGBTQ+EnactedEnacted, Anti-LGBTQ+Enacted, Pro-LGBTQ+
2026381028303
2025606606
202418612404
2023606606
2022321000
2021101101
2020725101
2019303303
2018321101
2016990000
2012514101
2011101101
2010330000

Topics and tags

A bill can have more than one topic or tag, so the rows add up to more than the number of bills.

Topics

Bills by topic
TopicBillsAnti-LGBTQ+Pro-LGBTQ+
Identity documents101
Bathrooms & facilities880
Sports participation770
Youth gender-affirming care20416
Adult gender-affirming care808
Medicaid & public funding for care110
Insurance coverage101
Prisons, jails & detention1147
Schools & curriculum13112
DEI & bias training101
Marriage, family & custody1156
Nondiscrimination protections28127
Hate crimes606
Religious exemptions550
Military service101
Conversion therapy101
Symbolic resolutions & recognition101
Government process, funding & data606

Tags

The most-used tags
TagBillsAnti-LGBTQ+Pro-LGBTQ+
Education Nondiscrimination909
Prisoner Nondiscrimination707
Sports Ban: K12770
Gender Affirming Care606
Trans Bathroom Ban660
Hate Crime Classification505
Safe State Bill505
Gender Affirming Care Ban: Minors440
Marriage Equality404
Prison Placement Ban440
Privacy: Data Protection404
Algorithmic Nondiscrimination303
Show the other 46 tags
The other tags
TagBillsAnti-LGBTQ+Pro-LGBTQ+
Forced Outing: Schools330
Healthcare Nondiscrimination303
LGBTQ+ Education303
Provider Protections303
Religious Exemptions: Marriage330
Religious Exemptions: PFCGDA330
Religious Exemptions: Trans DNE330
Broad Nondiscrimination202
Employment Nondiscrimination202
Gender Affirming Care Protections202
Sports Ban: Colleges220
Anti-Bullying101
Appropriations101
Broad Discrimination110
Civil Unions101
Civil Unions Ban110
Conversion Therapy Ban101
Data Disaggregation101
Diaper Changing Station Bill101
Domestic Partner Nondiscrimination101
Don't Say Gay: Elementary110
Don't Say Trans: Elementary110
Easy Name And Gender Changes101
End Trans Panic Defense101
Forced Outing: Mental Emotional Well-Being110
Foster Children Protections101
Gender Affirming Care Ban: Medicaid110
Gender Affirming Care Ban: SAFE Act110
Gender Affirming Care Ban: VCPA110
Government Funding Nondiscrimination101
Holiday/Recognition101
Insurance Nondiscrimination101
LGBTQ+ Inclusive Training101
Military Nondiscrimination101
Misgendering: Forced110
Misgendering: Pronoun Ban110
Misgendering: Pronoun Ban: K12110
Patient And Provider Protections101
Religious Exemptions110
Religious Exemptions: Medical110
Same-Sex Marriage Ban110
Same-Sex Marriage Ban: Constitutional Amendment110
Suicide Prevention101
Trans Bathroom Ban: K12110
Trans Bathroom Ban: Public Accommodations110
Trans Bathroom Ban: Public Properties110

Hearings

No hearings are listed for this jurisdiction.

Legislators

The sponsors of the bills listed here, with the number of those bills each one sponsors.

Legislators, by the number of the listed bills they sponsor
NamePartyRoleDistrictBills sponsored
Claire WilsonDSenatorSD-03027
Timm OrmsbyDRepresentativeHD-003B22
T'wina NoblesDSenatorSD-02820
Derek StanfordDSenatorSD-00119
Marko LiiasDSenatorSD-02119
Robert HasegawaDSenatorSD-01119
Javier ValdezDSenatorSD-04618
Manka DhingraDSenatorSD-04518
Gerry PolletDRepresentativeHD-046A17
Jamie PedersenDSenatorSD-04317

All 295 legislators

Party as recorded: D Democratic, R Republican, I Independent; other codes are shown as recorded.

Court cases

Cases placed in this jurisdiction by where the court sits, newest first. Each case links to its own page, which has the caption.

Court cases, newest first
CaseCourtLevelYear
Case c72027107W.D. Wash.District2026
Case 2:26-cv-01311W.D. Wash.District2026
Case 2:26-cv-02689W.D. Wash.District2026
Case 3:26-cv-06011W.D. Wash.District2026
Case 2:26-cv-03301W.D. Wash.District2026
Case 2:25-cv-00701W.D. Wash.District2025
Case 2:25-cv-00814W.D. Wash.District2025
Case n0363c38e6dW.D. Wash.District2024
Case n531a604a57Washington State Human Rights CommissionState agency2023

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Bill data comes from LegiScan, licensed CC BY 4.0 and used here in modified form. Outcome coding, category tags and the summaries are the Trans Data Initiative team's, licensed CC BY-NC 4.0 with credit.