WA People
BILL · 2025–26 SESSION

HB 1033: Child care local licensing

Authorizing local licensing and regulation of child care providers.

Summary

  • Authorizes counties to adopt and maintain ordinances for the licensing and regulation of child care centers and family home providers to take effect no sooner than July 1, 2026.
  • Requires the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) to provide technical assistance on request to counties that choose to locally license and regulate child care.
  • Requires counties that locally license and regulate child care to report to the DCYF on a quarterly basis, and directs the DCYF to compile and maintain on its website a list of counties with local licensing and regulation schemes.
  • Requires the DCYF, in consultation with representatives of local governments, to contract for a third-party consultant to conduct an analysis of local licensing and regulation of child care centers and family home providers.

From the House Bill Analysis 2025 (HB 1033), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedJan 13, 2025
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Travis Couture (R-35)
Introduced
January 13, 2025 in the House
Last action
January 12, 2026
Budget
Has a fiscal note

AN ACT Relating to local licensing and regulation of child care providers;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Travis Couture (R-35)

4 co-sponsors (0 Democrats, 4 Republicans)

Sam Low R-39Matt Marshall R-2Cyndy Jacobsen R-25Carolyn Eslick R-39

Votes

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

History

  1. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  2. First reading, referred to Early Learning & Human Services.
  3. Prefiled for introduction.

HB 1033 in other sessions

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