Washington legislation · 2025-26 Regular Session
Washington HB1634: Behavioral health/schools
Status: Signed into law, March 23, 2026
Providing school districts and public schools with assistance to coordinate comprehensive behavioral health supports for students.
What the bill says
An act Relating to providing school districts and public schools with the assistance, resources, and training necessary to coordinate comprehensive supports across the behavioral health continuum for their students; and amending RCW 28A.310.510.
From the introduced text:
AN ACT Relating to providing school districts and public schools with the assistance, resources, and training necessary to coordinate comprehensive supports across the behavioral health continuum for their students; and amending RCW 28A.310.510. Sec. 1. RCW 28A.310.510 and 2019 c 333 s 3 are each amended to read as follows: (1) Subject to the availability of amounts appropriated for this specific purpose, each educational service district must establish a regional school safety center as provided in this section. (2) The regional school safety centers working in collaboration with one another and the state school safety center, established in RCW 28A.300.630, form a statewide network for school safety. The purpose of this statewide network is to provide coordination of school safety efforts throughout the state and to provide school safety resources to the school districts in each educational service district region. (3) Working in collaboration with the office of the superintendent of public instruction and the statewide network, each regional school safety center must provide to the school districts in its region: (a) Behavioral health coordination that, at a minimum, (ii) Suicide prevention training for school counselors, school psychologists, and school social workers; (iii) Facilitating partnerships and coordination between school districts, public schools, and existing regional and local systems of behavioral health care services and supports in order to increase student …
Sponsors
- My-Linh Thai (D) · primary sponsor
- Carolyn Eslick (R)
- Julia Reed (D)
- Julio Cortes (D)
- Beth Doglio (D)
- Roger Goodman (D)
- Osman Salahuddin (D)
- Steve Bergquist (D)
- Shaun Scott (D)
- Lisa Parshley (D)
- Janice Zahn (D)
- Greg Nance (D)
Latest actions
- : Effective date 6/11/2026.
- : Chapter 129, 2026 Laws.
- : Governor signed.
- : Delivered to Governor.
- : President signed.
- : Speaker signed.
- : Third reading, passed; yeas, 47; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 2.
- : Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- : Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- : Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
Votes
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (March 6, 2026): 47 yea, 0 nay, passed
- Senate Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education: Do pass (February 25, 2026): 5 yea, 1 nay, passed
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (February 17, 2026): 95 yea, 2 nay, passed
- House Committee on Appropriations: Do pass (February 9, 2026): 18 yea, 11 nay, passed
- House Committee on Education: The second substitute bill be substituted therefor and the second substitute bill do pass (January 22, 2026): 12 yea, 2 nay, passed
- House Committee on Education: The substitute bill be substituted therefor and the substitute bill do pass (February 20, 2025): 14 yea, 4 nay, passed
Subjects: SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS, SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, OFFICE OF (OSPI)
Common questions
- What is HB1634?
- HB1634 is a bill in the Washington Legislature (2025-26 Regular Session): Behavioral health/schools.
- What does HB1634 do?
- In its own words: An act Relating to providing school districts and public schools with the assistance, resources, and training necessary to coordinate comprehensive supports across the behavioral health continuum for their students; and amending RCW 28A.310.510.
- What is the status of HB1634?
- Signed into law as of March 23, 2026. Latest action: Effective date 6/11/2026. (March 23, 2026).
- Who sponsored HB1634?
- My-Linh Thai (D), with 11 co-sponsors.
- Where is the official record for HB1634?
- On the Washington Legislature website: https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=1634&Year=2025
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