BILL · 2025–26 SESSION

HB 1459: Child fatalities

Modernizing the child fatality statute.

Summary

Modifies various provisions related to child mortality reviews, including renaming these as child fatality reviews, expanding these reviews to include children up to age 19, and requiring various entities to provide records and data requested for specific child fatality reviews to the local health department.
Allows witness statements or documents collected from witnesses, or summaries of these records prepared for child fatality reviews, to be introduced into evidence in a criminal proceeding relating to the death of the child reviewed.

From the House Bill Report (HB 1459), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to modernizing the child fatality statute;

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

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

HB 1459 (2023–24) PERS & TRS plan 1 adjustment · Did not pass · died in committee
HB 1459 (2021–22) Data center tax incentive · Did not pass · died in committee
HB 1459 (2019–20) Running start summer pilot · Did not pass · died in committee
HB 1459 (2017–18) Full hydrologic cycle · Did not pass · died in committee
HB 1459 (2015–16) Healthpath WA/tax exclusions · Did not pass · died in committee
HB 1459 (2013–14) Wine tasting by students · Did not pass · passed House, stalled in Senate
HB 1459 (2011–12) Driver's license applicants · Did not pass · died in committee
HB 1459 (2009–10) Direct practices payment · Did not pass · died in committee