🏛️ WA Legislative Tracker 2026

What is a legislative cutoff?

The Washington State Legislature has deadlines called "cutoffs" during each session. These deadlines decide when bills must reach certain stages to stay alive.

What happened on February 4th?

The first major cutoff was the Policy Committee Cutoff. Bills that were still waiting to be reviewed by a policy committee in their starting chamber (House or Senate) missed this deadline. These bills can no longer move forward this year.

What happened on February 9th?

The second cutoff was the Fiscal Committee Cutoff. Bills that passed their policy committee but were still stuck in a fiscal committee in their house of origin missed this deadline. If a bill hadn't cleared its fiscal committee by end of day February 9th, it's no longer active this session.

What does this mean?

• Active bills have cleared both their policy and fiscal committees and are still being considered.
• Inactive bills missed one of these cutoffs and won't become law this session.
• Scroll down to see which bills missed each cutoff and are no longer active.

More cutoffs are coming

The next deadline is the House of Origin Cutoff on February 17th — bills must pass a full floor vote in their starting chamber by then. Check the cutoff banner above for the countdown.