Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session Status: Passed Senate 10 D cosponsors

SB 6086 — Strengthening security for Washington state judicial officers and court personnel.

Last action — By resolution, returned to Senate Rules Committee for third reading.

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. 3
    Passed Senate
  4. 4
    Passed House
  5. 5
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill has passed the Senate. Introduced January 13, 2026. It now moves to the second chamber.

Next likely step: consideration and a floor vote in the House.

Odds of enactment

Moderate chance

Based on the sponsor, cosponsors, and committee posture, this bill has a moderate chance of becoming law.

Upgrade to see the exact probability and what's driving it.

A statistical estimate from our own model of past outcomes — an insight, not a guarantee. Policymaking is volatile.

Prognosis

Advancing 58% · moderate confidence

  • Passed Senate

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 10 sponsors

    1 primary, 9 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Single-party support

    Sponsorship is currently within one party (10 D).

  • Cleared a recorded vote

    Passed 1 recorded vote so far.

Based on stage, sponsorship breadth, committee status, recorded votes, and cross-state momentum — a description of the observable signals, not a prediction.

Bill Text

What changed in the latest version

387 added · 141 removed

Plain-language change summary

The recent amendments to Senate Bill 6086 primarily change the language around protecting the personal information of judicial officers and court personnel. The updates clarify that individuals must not share such information on the internet if it poses a threat to the safety of the eligible individual or their immediate family. This refinement is important because it enhances the safety measures for those working in the judiciary by ensuring their information is protected when there is a reasonable belief that it could lead to harm.

→
Previous
Latest
ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6086 State of Washington 69th Legislature 2026 Regular Session By Senate Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senators Dhingra, Conway, Cortes, Liias, Nobles, Orwall, Pedersen, Riccelli, Salomon, and C.
Z-0485.4 SENATE BILL 6086 State of Washington 69th Legislature 2026 Regular Session By Senators Dhingra, Conway, Cortes, Liias, Nobles, Orwall, Pedersen, Riccelli, Salomon, and C.
by request of Administrative Office of the Courts) READ FIRST TIME 02/04/26.
by request of Administrative Office of the Courts Read first time 01/13/26.
Referred to Committee on Law & Justice.
amending RCW 2.04.260 and 10.97.050;
amending RCW 4.24.680, 4.24.700, 9A.46.020, 9A.90.120, 2.04.260, and 10.97.050;
RCW 4.24.680 and 2006 c 355 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) A person shall not knowingly make available on the ((world wide web)) internet the personal information of ((a peace officer, corrections person, justice, judge, commissioner, public defender, or prosecutor)) an eligible individual if the dissemination of the personal information poses ((an imminent and serious)) a threat to the ((peace officer's, corrections person's, justice's, judge's, commissioner's, public defender's, or prosecutor's)) eligible individual's safety or the safety of ((that person's)) the eligible individual's immediate family ((and the threat is reasonably apparent to the person making the information available on the world wide web to be serious and imminent)).
(2) It is not a violation of this section if an employee of a county auditor or county assessor publishes personal information, in good faith, on the website of the county auditor or county assessor p.
1 SB 6086 in the ordinary course of carrying out public functions provided that the employee, county auditor, or county assessor complies with requests to shield or remove personal information pursuant to subsection (3) of this section.
(3) Any agency, business, person, data broker, or website who receives a notice or request from an eligible individual or an eligible individual's authorized agent for removal of his or her personal information from the internet must comply within 10 business days following physical or electronic receipt of the request or notice to remove the individual's personal information.
(a) An agency, business, person, data broker, or website may not disclose or redisclose including, but not limited to, on the internet, the personal information of any eligible individual who submits a request or notice for removal.
(b) For the purposes of this section, no provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.
(4) For the purposes of this section:
(a) (("Commissioner" means a commissioner of the superior court, court of appeals, or supreme court.)) "Authorized agent" means any persons or entities authorized to act on behalf of any eligible individual to submit or revoke a request for nondisclosure of personal information and to engage in communications and enforcement.
(b) "Corrections person" means any employee or volunteer who by state, county, municipal, or combination thereof, statute has the responsibility for the confinement, care, management, training, treatment, education, supervision, or counseling of those whose civil rights have been limited in some way by legal sanction.
(c) "Court clerk" means any individual performing the duties in RCW 2.32.050.
(d) "Eligible individual" means a peace officer, corrections person, judicial officer, public defender, prosecutor, court clerk, person appointed to any position under RCW 34.12.030, or criminal justice participant described in RCW 9A.46.020(4).
(e) "Immediate family" means ((a peace officer's, corrections person's, justice's, judge's, commissioner's, public defender's, or prosecutor's)) an eligible individual's spouse, child, or parent and any other adult or child who lives in the same residence as the ((person)) eligible individual.
p.
2 SB 6086 (((d) "Judge")) (f) "Judicial officer" means a justice, judge, commissioner, or magistrate of the United States supreme court, the United States district court, the United States court of appeals, ((the United States magistrate,)) the United States bankruptcy court, ((and)) the Washington supreme court, court of appeals, superior court, district court, or municipal court, and administrative law judges appointed under Title 34 RCW.
(((e) "Justice" means a justice of the United States supreme court or Washington supreme court.
(f))) (g) "Personal information" means ((a peace officer's, corrections person's, justice's, judge's, commissioner's, public defender's, or prosecutor's)) an eligible individual's home address, home telephone number, pager number, social security number, home email address, directions to the ((person's)) eligible individual's home, or photographs of the ((person's)) eligible individual's home or vehicle.
(((g))) (h) "Prosecutor" means a county prosecuting attorney, a city attorney, the attorney general, or a United States attorney and their assistants or deputies.
(((h))) (i) "Public defender" means a federal public defender, or other public defender, and his or her assistants or deputies.
Sec.
2.
RCW 4.24.700 and 2006 c 355 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:
Any person whose personal information is made available on the ((world wide web)) internet as described in RCW 4.24.680(1) who suffers damages as a result of such conduct may bring an action against the person or organization who makes such information available, for actual damages sustained plus damages in an amount not to exceed ((one thousand dollars)) $1,000 for each day the personal information was made available on the ((world wide web)) internet after expiration of the 10 business day deadline in RCW 4.24.680(3) or after the date of an order issued under RCW 4.24.690, and reasonable attorneys' fees and costs.
Sec.
3.
RCW 9A.46.020 and 2024 c 292 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) A person is guilty of harassment if:
(a) Without lawful authority, the person knowingly threatens:
p.
3 SB 6086 (i) To cause bodily injury immediately or in the future to the person threatened or to any other person;
or (ii) To cause physical damage to the property of a person other than the actor;
or (iii) To subject the person threatened or any other person to physical confinement or restraint;
or (iv) Maliciously to do any other act which is intended to substantially harm the person threatened or another with respect to his or her physical health or safety;
and (b) The person by words or conduct places the person threatened in reasonable fear that the threat will be carried out.
"Words or conduct" includes, in addition to any other form of communication or conduct, the sending of an electronic communication.
(2)(a) Except as provided in (b) of this subsection, a person who harasses another is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
Show all 123 changed rows (83 more)
Previous
Latest
(b) A person who harasses another is guilty of a class C felony if any of the following apply:
(i) The person has previously been convicted in this or any other state of any crime of harassment, as defined in RCW 9A.46.060, of the same victim or members of the victim's family or household or any person specifically named in a no-contact or no-harassment order;
(ii) the person harasses another person under subsection (1)(a)(i) of this section by threatening to kill the person threatened or any other person;
(iii) the person harasses a criminal justice participant or election official who is performing his or her official duties at the time the threat is made;
or (iv) the person harasses a criminal justice participant or election official because of an action taken or decision made by the criminal justice participant or election official during the performance of his or her official duties.
For the purposes of (b)(iii) and (iv) of this subsection, the fear from the threat must be a fear that a reasonable criminal justice participant or election official would have under all the circumstances.
Threatening words do not constitute harassment if it is apparent to the criminal justice participant or election official that the person does not have the present and future ability to carry out the threat.
(3) Any criminal justice participant or election official who is a target for threats or harassment prohibited under subsection (2)(b)(iii) or (iv) of this section, and any person residing with him or her, shall be eligible for the address confidentiality program created under RCW 40.24.030.
p.
4 SB 6086 (4) For purposes of this section, a criminal justice participant includes any:
(a) ((federal)) Federal, state, or local court judicial officer;
(b) Federal, state, or local court administrator or staff;
(c) Federal, state, or local law enforcement agency employee;
(((b) federal)) (d) Federal, state, or local prosecuting attorney or deputy prosecuting attorney;
(((c) staff)) (e) Staff member of any adult corrections institution or local adult detention facility;
(((d) staff)) (f) Staff member of any juvenile corrections institution or local juvenile detention facility;
(((e) community)) (g) Community corrections officer, probation, or parole officer;
(((f) member)) (h) Member of the indeterminate sentence review board;
(((g) advocate)) (i) Advocate from a crime victim/witness program;
((or (h) defense)) (j) Defense attorney;
or (k) State or local clerk staff.
(5) For the purposes of this section, an election official includes any staff member of the office of the secretary of state or staff member of a county auditor's office, regardless of whether the member is employed on a temporary or part-time basis, whose duties relate to voter registration or the processing of votes as provided in Title 29A RCW.
(6) The penalties provided in this section for harassment do not preclude the victim from seeking any other remedy otherwise available under law.
Sec.
4.
RCW 9A.90.120 and 2022 c 231 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) A person is guilty of cyber harassment if the person, with intent to harass or intimidate any other person, and under circumstances not constituting telephone harassment, makes an electronic communication to that person or a third party and the communication:
(a)(i) Uses any lewd, lascivious, indecent, or obscene words, images, or language, or suggests the commission of any lewd or lascivious act;
(ii) Is made anonymously or repeatedly;
p.
5 SB 6086 (iii) Contains a threat to inflict bodily injury immediately or in the future on the person threatened or to any other person;
or (iv) Contains a threat to damage, immediately or in the future, the property of the person threatened or of any other person;
and (b) With respect to any offense committed under the circumstances identified in (a)(iii) or (iv) of this subsection:
(i) Would cause a reasonable person, with knowledge of the sender's history, to suffer emotional distress or to fear for the safety of the person threatened;
or (ii) Reasonably caused the threatened person to suffer emotional distress or fear for the threatened person's safety.
(2)(a) Except as provided in (b) of this subsection, cyber harassment is a gross misdemeanor.
(b) A person who commits cyber harassment is guilty of a class C felony if any of the following apply:
(i) The person has previously been convicted in this or any other state of any crime of harassment, as defined in RCW 9A.46.060, of the same victim or members of the victim's family or household or any person specifically named in a no-contact or no-harassment order;
(ii) The person cyber harasses another person under subsection (1)(a)(iii) of this section by threatening to kill the person threatened or any other person;
(iii) The person cyber harasses a criminal justice participant or election official who is performing the participant's official duties or election official's official duties at the time the communication is made;
(iv) The person cyber harasses a criminal justice participant or election official because of an action taken or decision made by the criminal justice participant or election official during the performance of the participant's official duties or election official's official duties;
or (v) The person commits cyber harassment in violation of any protective order protecting the victim.
(3) Any criminal justice participant or election official who is a target for threats or harassment prohibited under subsection (2)(b)(iii) or (iv) of this section, and any family members residing with the participant or election official, shall be eligible for the address confidentiality program created under RCW 40.24.030.
(4) For purposes of this section, ((a criminal justice participant includes any:
p.
6 SB 6086 (a) Federal, state, or municipal court judge;
(b) Federal, state, or municipal court staff;
(c) Federal, state, or local law enforcement agency employee;
(d) Federal, state, or local prosecuting attorney or deputy prosecuting attorney;
(e) Staff member of any adult corrections institution or local adult detention facility;
(f) Staff member of any juvenile corrections institution or local juvenile detention facility;
(g) Community corrections officer, probation officer, or parole officer;
(h) Member of the indeterminate sentence review board;
(i) Advocate from a crime victim/witness program;
or (j) Defense attorney)) "criminal justice participant" has the definition provided in RCW 9A.46.020(4).
(5) For the purposes of this section, an election official includes any staff member of the office of the secretary of state or staff member of a county auditor's office, regardless of whether the member is employed on a temporary or part-time basis, whose duties relate to voter registration or the processing of votes as provided in Title 29A RCW.
(6) The penalties provided in this section for cyber harassment do not preclude the victim from seeking any other remedy otherwise available under law.
(7) Any offense committed under this section may be deemed to have been committed either at the place from which the communication was made or at the place where the communication was received.
(8) For purposes of this section, "electronic communication" means the transmission of information by wire, radio, optical cable, electromagnetic, or other similar means.
"Electronic communication" includes, but is not limited to, email, internet-based communications, pager service, and electronic text messaging.
Sec.
5.
(2) Bailiffs of the supreme court are authorized to receive criminal history record information that includes nonconviction data for purposes exclusively related to the investigation of any person making a threat as defined in RCW 9A.04.110 against a supreme court ((justice)) judicial officer.
p.
7 SB 6086 (2) Bailiffs of the supreme court are authorized to receive criminal history record information that includes nonconviction data for purposes exclusively related to the investigation of any person making a threat as defined in RCW 9A.04.110 against a supreme court ((justice)) judicial officer.
Local law p.
Local law enforcement is authorized to report the outcome and any anticipated action to bailiffs of the supreme court.
1 ESSB 6086 enforcement is authorized to report the outcome and any anticipated action to bailiffs of the supreme court.
2.
6.
(1) Court security personnel of the administrative office of the courts are authorized to conduct threat assessments on behalf of judicial officers.
(1) Court security consultants of the administrative office of the courts are authorized to conduct threat assessments on behalf of judicial officers.
The administrative office of the courts shall ensure that court security personnel are qualified by training and experience if they perform these duties.
The administrative office of the courts shall ensure that court security consultants are qualified by training and experience if they perform these duties.
(2) Court security personnel of the administrative office of the courts are authorized to receive criminal history record information that includes nonconviction data exclusively for purposes related to the investigation of any threat or person making a threat as defined in RCW 9A.04.110 against a judicial officer.
(2) Court security consultants of the administrative office of the courts are authorized to receive criminal history record information that includes nonconviction data exclusively for purposes related to the investigation of any threat or person making a threat as defined in RCW 9A.04.110 against a judicial officer.
Local law enforcement is authorized to report the outcome and any anticipated action to the court security personnel of the administrative office of the courts.
Local law enforcement is authorized to report the outcome and any anticipated action to the court security consultants of the administrative office of the courts.
(4) For purposes of this section, "judicial officer" means a justice, judge, commissioner, or magistrate of the United States supreme court, the United States district court, the United States court of appeals, the United States bankruptcy court, the Washington supreme court, court of appeals, superior court, district court, or municipal court, industrial appeals judges appointed under Title 51 RCW, and administrative law judges appointed under Title 34 RCW.
3.
7.
(2) Any criminal history record information which pertains to an incident that occurred within the last twelve months for which a person is currently being processed by the criminal justice system, including the entire period of correctional supervision extending through final discharge from parole, when applicable, may be disseminated without restriction.
(2) Any criminal history record information which pertains to an incident that occurred within the last twelve months for which a person is currently being processed by the criminal justice system, including the entire period of correctional supervision extending p.
p.
8 SB 6086 through final discharge from parole, when applicable, may be disseminated without restriction.
2 ESSB 6086 (3) Criminal history record information which includes nonconviction data may be disseminated by a criminal justice agency to another criminal justice agency for any purpose associated with the administration of criminal justice, or in connection with the employment of the subject of the record by a criminal justice or juvenile justice agency, except as provided under RCW 13.50.260.
(3) Criminal history record information which includes nonconviction data may be disseminated by a criminal justice agency to another criminal justice agency for any purpose associated with the administration of criminal justice, or in connection with the employment of the subject of the record by a criminal justice or juvenile justice agency, except as provided under RCW 13.50.260.
Such agreement must authorize the access to nonconviction data, limit the use of that information which identifies specific individuals to research, evaluative, or statistical purposes, and contain provisions giving notice to the person or organization to which the records are disseminated that the use of information obtained therefrom and further dissemination of such information are subject to the provisions of this chapter and applicable federal statutes and regulations, which shall be cited with express reference to the penalties provided for a violation thereof.
Such agreement must authorize the access to nonconviction data, limit the use of that information which identifies specific individuals to research, evaluative, or statistical purposes, and contain provisions giving notice to the person or organization to which the records are disseminated that the use of information obtained therefrom and further dissemination of such information are subject to the provisions of this chapter and applicable federal statutes and p.
p.
9 SB 6086 regulations, which shall be cited with express reference to the penalties provided for a violation thereof.
3 ESSB 6086 (7) Criminal history record information that includes nonconviction data may be disseminated to the state auditor solely for the express purpose of conducting a process compliance audit procedure and review of any deadly force investigation pursuant to RCW 43.101.460.
(7) Criminal history record information that includes nonconviction data may be disseminated to the state auditor solely for the express purpose of conducting a process compliance audit procedure and review of any deadly force investigation pursuant to RCW 43.101.460.
(b) Criminal history record information that includes nonconviction data may be disseminated to court security personnel of the administrative office of the courts for the express purpose of investigations under section 2 of this act.
(b) Criminal history record information that includes nonconviction data may be disseminated to court security consultants of the administrative office of the courts for the express purpose of investigations under section 6 of this act.
Criminal justice agencies, their employees, and officials shall be immune from civil liability for dissemination on criminal history record information concerning sex offenders as provided in RCW 4.24.550.
Criminal justice agencies, their employees, and officials shall be immune from civil liability p.
10 SB 6086 for dissemination on criminal history record information concerning sex offenders as provided in RCW 4.24.550.
4 ESSB 6086
11 SB 6086
⬇ Download PDF
View plain text versions (3)

Action History

  1. By resolution, returned to Senate Rules Committee for third reading.

  2. Referred to Rules 2 Review.

  3. Minority; without recommendation.

  4. Minority; do not pass.

  5. CRJ - Majority; do pass.

  6. Executive action taken in the House Committee on Civil Rights & Judiciary at 8:00 AM.

  7. Public hearing in the House Committee on Civil Rights & Judiciary at 10:30 AM.

  8. First reading, referred to Civil Rights & Judiciary.

  9. Third reading, passed; yeas, 46; nays, 3; absent, 0; excused, 0.

  10. Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.

  11. Floor amendment(s) adopted.

  12. 1st substitute bill substituted (LAW 26).

  13. Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.

  14. Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.

  15. Minority; without recommendation.

  16. Minority; do not pass.

  17. LAW - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.

  18. Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Law & Justice at 8:30 AM.

  19. Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Law & Justice at 10:30 AM.

  20. First reading, referred to Law & Justice.

Sponsors

Sponsorship breakdown

Export CSV (upgrade) →

1 sponsors · 9 co-sponsors · 141 not signed on · 3 voted No

Sponsors (1)

Co-sponsors (9)

Not signed on (141)

141 members have not signed on to this bill.

Show all 141 →

"Not signed on" means a member has not sponsored or co-sponsored this bill — it does not imply opposition. Members flagged Voted No have a recorded No vote on this bill.

Whip count is in markup. Polling the chamber and every recorded vote this session. Only the first open is slow. It’s instant for you after this. Calling the roll · Tallying · Engrossing

Votes

3rd Reading & Final Passage (#17)

Passed 46 Yea · 3 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Democrat 30000
Republican 16300
Total 46300
% of votes cast 94%6%0%0%
How each member voted (49)
Member Party Vote
Adrian Cortes Democrat Yea
Annette Cleveland Democrat Yea
Bob Hasegawa Democrat Yea
Claire Wilson Democrat Yea
Claudia Kauffman Democrat Yea
Deborah Krishnadasan Democrat Yea
Derek Stanford Democrat Yea
Drew Hansen Democrat Yea
Emily Alvarado Democrat Yea
Jamie Pedersen Democrat Yea
Javier Valdez Democrat Yea
Jesse Salomon Democrat Yea
Jessica Bateman Democrat Yea
John Lovick Democrat Yea
June Robinson Democrat Yea
Lisa Wellman Democrat Yea
Liz Lovelett Democrat Yea
Manka Dhingra Democrat Yea
Marcus Riccelli Democrat Yea
Marko Liias Democrat Yea
Mike Chapman Democrat Yea
Noel Frame Democrat Yea
Rebecca Saldaña Democrat Yea
Sharon Shewmake Democrat Yea
Steve Conway Democrat Yea
T'wina Nobles Democrat Yea
Tina Orwall Democrat Yea
Vandana Slatter Democrat Yea
Victoria Hunt Democrat Yea
Yasmin Trudeau Democrat Yea
Chris Gildon Republican Yea
Curtis King Republican Yea
Drew MacEwen Republican Yea
Jeff Holy Republican Yea
Jeff Wilson Republican Yea
Jim McCune Republican Yea
John Braun Republican Yea
Judy Warnick Republican Yea
Keith Goehner Republican Yea
Keith Wagoner Republican Nay
Leonard Christian Republican Nay
Mark Schoesler Republican Yea
Matt Boehnke Republican Yea
Nikki Torres Republican Nay
Paul Harris Republican Yea
Perry Dozier Republican Yea
Phil Fortunato Republican Yea
Ron Muzzall Republican Yea
Shelly Short Republican Yea

Official roll call →

Subjects

public-safety
Cross-referencing the record. Reading this bill against every other bill in the corpus by meaning, not keywords. Only the first open is slow. It’s instant for you after this. Matching · Ranking · Engrossing

Frequently asked questions

Who sponsors SB 6086?
SB 6086 is sponsored by Claire Wilson (Democrat), Jesse Salomon (Democrat), Marcus Riccelli (Democrat), Jamie Pedersen (Democrat), Tina Orwall (Democrat), T'wina Nobles (Democrat), Marko Liias (Democrat), Steve Conway (Democrat), Manka Dhingra (Democrat), and Adrian Cortes (Democrat).
What is the current status of SB 6086?
This bill has passed the Senate. Introduced January 13, 2026. It now moves to the second chamber.
Where can I track SB 6086?
Track SB 6086 free on One Click Politics — get push/email alerts when it moves.

Make your voice heard on SB 6086

Find the representatives who decide this bill and tell them where you stand — for yourself, or mobilize your whole list in one click with One Click Politics advocacy software.

Find my representatives → Run a campaign

Stay ahead of SB 6086

Last checked for changes 3 months ago · updated continuously

One Click Politics tracks every bill in Congress and all 50 states.

Track this bill →