Jess Bateman

Jess Bateman D

State Senator
Washington Senate District 22
Term: — – Jan. 3, 2026
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On Record (21)

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Housing Juggernaut Jessica Bateman Launches State Senate Bid  The Urbanist
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Concerning nursing education program standards.
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Concerning rental property disclosures of flooding history and flood risk.
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Establishing an abortion savings program.
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Concerning senior independent housing protections.
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Correcting terminology to align the revised code of Washington with recent reorganization at the department of social and health services.
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Considering critical aquifer recharge areas when revising an urban growth area.
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Concerning permit-ready residential building plans.
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Concerning scissor stair regulations in the state building code.
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Establishing an independent living ombuds to support seniors living in independent living facilities and the independent living portion of continuing care retirement communities.
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Improving access to abortion medications.
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Concerning the use of nursing titles.
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Defining the rental or lease of individual storage space at self-service storage facilities as a retail transaction for the imposition of business and occupation and sales and use taxes.
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Creating a sales and use tax remittance program for affordable housing.
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Regulating exterior cladding materials.
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Concerning benefits authorized to be offered by the public employees' benefits board.
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Improving access to appropriate mental health and substance use disorder services.
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Ensuring compliance with the housing element requirements of the growth management act.
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Establishing a prescribing psychologist certification in Washington state.
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Consolidating regulatory authority for nursing assistants.
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Allowing bargaining over matters related to the use of artificial intelligence.
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Establishing a tax on millionaires.
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Providing local governments tax resources and fund flexibility.
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Directing the withholding of state payments to the federal government if federal funding is withheld due to the existence of a valid Washington state law.
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Strengthening health care market standards.
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Concerning coverage for HIV antiviral drugs.
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Establishing producer responsibility for textiles.
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Creating an apple health employer assessment.
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Eliminating preferential treatment related to a coal-fired electric generating plant.
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Addressing emerging large energy use facilities.
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Concerning property tax reform.
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Strengthening public hospitals.
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Adopting national standards for factory built housing and commercial structures.
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Providing enrollment stabilization funding.
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Protecting elected officials and candidates, executive state officers, election officials, and criminal justice participants against threats and incidents of political violence.
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Prohibiting real estate brokers from marketing residential properties to an exclusive group of prospective buyers or real estate brokers.
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Protecting Washingtonians from invasion of privacy, including the unauthorized disclosure of sex designation information and historic sex designation changes in official government records.
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Providing prelicensing supports to individuals interested in becoming a licensed child care provider.
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Concerning membership of wildland or aviation firefighters in the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system.
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Supporting the recovery of missing persons.
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Exempting certain former foster care providers from adult family home licensure.
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Establishing a revolving loan fund for mixed-income affordable homeownership development.
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Improving the functioning of home care rate statutes.
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Concerning the housing finance commission.
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Concerning driver privacy protections.
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Creating an additional regional training option for the basic law enforcement academy.
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Establishing the Washington health care board.
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Concerning the use of a smart access system in a residential property subject to the residential landlord-tenant act.
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Concerning public defense services.
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Establishing data and personal safety protections within areas of public accommodation for all Washington residents.
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Concerning protection of the voter registration database.
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Concerning eligibility for membership in the school employees' benefits board programs during the second school year of employment.
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Offering plant-based food options in schools.
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Providing a cost-of-living adjustment for plan 1 retirees of the teachers' retirement system and public employees' retirement system.
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Concerning the use of face coverings by law enforcement officers.
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Protecting elected officials from political violence by creating the statewide emergency public official notification system.
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Concerning access to medical care in workers' compensation.
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Concerning access at public postsecondary educational institutions to medication abortion.
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Enacting a tax on stocks, bonds, and other financial intangible assets for the benefit of public schools.
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Enacting an excise tax on large employers on the amount of payroll expenses above the social security wage threshold to fund programs and services to benefit Washingtonians.
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Reducing the state sales and use tax rate.
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Adopting recommendations from the tax preference performance review process, eliminating obsolete tax preferences, clarifying legislative intent, and addressing changes in constitutional law.
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Establishing African diaspora heritage week.
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Concerning historic landmark designations.
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Streamlining the home care worker background check process.
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Concerning fair access to community solar.
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Concerning the siting of child care centers.
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Concerning public employee collective bargaining processes.
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Preserving homeownership options by limiting excessive home buying by certain entities.
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Protecting consumers by removing barriers created by medical debt.
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Authorizing middle housing in unincorporated growth areas and unincorporated urban growth areas, certain limited areas of more intensive rural development, and fully contained communities.
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Establishing limitations on detached accessory dwelling units outside urban growth areas.
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Prohibiting algorithmic rent fixing and noncompete agreements in the rental housing market.
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Concerning the duties of industrial insurance self-insured employers and third-party administrators.
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Establishing a college promise pilot program.
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Allowing small business establishments in residential zones.
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Concerning the duty of clergy to report child abuse and neglect.
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Shifting general elections for local governments to even-numbered years to increase voter participation.
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Creating the medicaid access program.
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Concerning the diabetes prevention and obesity treatment act.
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Increasing student access to free meals served at public schools.
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Establishing the rural nursing education program.
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Adding the department of natural resources' civil enforcement decisions under RCW 76.04.205 to appeals that may be heard by the pollution control hearings board.
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Concerning special education funding.
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Concerning the purchase of pension service credit for authorized leaves of absence.
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Concerning the notice of sale or lease of manufactured/mobile home communities.
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Improving Washington's solid waste management outcomes.
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Concerning the indeterminate sentence review board.
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Developing the Washington health trust.
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Authorizing payment for parental caregivers of minor children with developmental disabilities.
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Concerning training as an alternative to driver license suspension for the accumulation of certain traffic infractions.
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Concerning programs and services for incarcerated parents at the department of corrections.
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Providing student navigational supports to increase postsecondary enrollment.
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Concerning workplace violence in health care settings.
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Concerning elevator standards in smaller apartment buildings.
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Clarifying the duties of county auditors.
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Establishing a statewide network for student mental and behavioral health.
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Concerning health plan coverage of fertility-related services.
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Protecting employees from coercion in the workplace based on immigration status.
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Removing references to pregnancy from the model directive form under the natural death act.
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Concerning sexually explicit depictions of minors.
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Concerning dignity in pregnancy loss.
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Creating a housing assistance program for youth enrolled in extended foster care.
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Concerning cost sharing for prenatal and postnatal care.
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Prohibiting the use of certain animals in traveling animal acts.
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Allowing collective bargaining over contributions for certain supplemental retirement benefits.
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Concerning industrial insurance coverage for posttraumatic stress disorders affecting correctional facility workers.
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Concerning vehicle and operator requirements for autonomous vehicles.
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Concerning unemployment insurance benefits for striking or lockout workers.
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Clarifying a hate crime offense.
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Concerning sampling or testing of biosolids for PFAS chemicals.
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Concerning election security.
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Concerning residential development in commercial and mixed-use zones.
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Modifying requirements and allowed uses for certain funding related to providing and maintaining affordable housing and related services.
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Establishing the preK promise account.
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Protecting patient access to discounted medications and health care services through Washington's health care safety net by preventing manufacturer limitations on the 340B drug pricing program.
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Concerning appointed counsel for individuals detained under the involuntary treatment act.
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Concerning access to psychedelic substances.
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Modernizing reimbursement rates for the working connections child care program.
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Establishing preceptorship and hardship pathways to medical practice for international medical graduates.
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Preventing cruelty to animals.
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