2026 Legislative Session

Legislative Advocacy 2026

This year's Legislative Session will begin Jan 12, 2026. To keep up to date on the the bills and hearings, check out the following sites, know who your legislators are https://leg.wa.gov/legislators/, and sign up for the Action Alerts with the Arc of WA at https://arcwa.org/advocacy/

Advocacy Days, part of The Arc’s Advocacy Partnership Project, are held during each legislative session to involve individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities (IDD), their families and their service providers in the legislative process, giving them opportunities to make their voices heard by their legislators and to have an impact on policy and budget legislation that affects the services and supports available to them.

For the schedule and to register, go to https://arcwa.org/advocacy/advocacy-days/

The Legislative Notebook is your resource for advocacy. It includes public policy ideas that community members are working on and information to help you understand how health, education and social services affect people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) https://arcwa.org/advocacy/2026-legislative-notebook/

Bills of Interest - Bill Tracker

The bills being proposed during this legislative session that have an impact on people with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities will be listed at this link on the Arc of WA website.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18D92TkduQrfnt9lOu4NZJ-TK9_0IwImy9f9ktlB9KRs/edit?gid=0#gid=0



State Budget Side-by-Side

The Governor, House and Senate will all propose their own version of the State budget for 2026-2027. The chart linked below, will show the comparison between all three budgets. Over the course of the Legislative Session, they will be combined into one document to be voted on by both houses and then signed by the Governor.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jwDMIZ8pLdvQKFuZ5G2-BROIbGcK1jHP41BNOtmAM3M/edit?gid=0#gid=0

Kittitas County Parent Coalition http://kc-parentcoalition.blogspot.com/