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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 729

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

Relating to: inmate access to transparent windows and making an appropriation. (FE)

Corrections department of Jail Prison Privacy Sheriff Shoreland zoning

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

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What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill requires the Department of Corrections and county sheriffs to ensure that in every state correctional institution and county jail, in every inmate residential cell that is connected to an exterior wall, a window that is at least 1.5 square feet in size and that provides at least 92 percent visibility to the outdoors be installed by October 1, 2030, provided that the correctional institution or county jail will remain structurally sound with the windows in place.

The bill also requires DOC or the county sheriff to provide every inmate with three hours per day of outdoor viewing time through a window that provides 92 percent visibility to the outdoors. This requirement may be met by time spent outdoors, by time spent in the inmate’s cell if the cell has such a window, or, if the inmate’s cell does not have such a window, by moving the inmate to a location within the state correctional institution or county jail that does have a window that provides at least 92 percent visibility to the outdoors.

The bill provides to DOC $500,000 in fiscal year 2025-26 and $3,000,000 in fiscal year 2026-27 for the purpose of installing windows in state correctional institutions to meet the requirements of the bill.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Arney (D) , Bare (D) , Clancy (D) , Hong (D) , Joers (D) , Madison (D) , Phelps (D) , Prado (D) , Rivera-Wagner (D) , Stroud (D) , Stubbs (D) , Taylor (D) , Tenorio (D) , Udell (D)

3 cosponsors

Drake (D) , Larson (D) , Moore Omokunde (D)

Full history

  1. Dec 3, 2025 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Clancy, Madison, Arney, Hong, Phelps, Tenorio, Bare, Joers, Prado, Rivera-Wagner, Stroud, Stubbs, Taylor and Udell; cosponsored by Senators Drake and Larson

  2. Dec 3, 2025 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Corrections

  3. Jan 12, 2026 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Jan 21, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative Moore Omokunde added as a coauthor

  5. Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1