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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 1074

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Relating to: refundability of the additional child and dependent care tax credit and making an appropriation. (FE)

Day care Income tax — Credit

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

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill converts the additional child and dependent care credit into a refundable tax credit. Under the bill, beginning with the 2026 tax year, if the additional child and dependent care credit exceeds a claimant’s tax liability, the claimant will receive the difference as a refund. Currently, the additional child and dependent care credit provides a nonrefundable state income tax credit equal to the amount that the claimant could claim for the federal child and dependent care credit when using higher employment-related expense limitations authorized under current law.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Dassler-Alfheim (D) , Larson (D) , Roys (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Wall (D)

17 cosponsors

Anderson (D) , Bare (D) , Brown (D) , Clancy (D) , DeSanto (D) , Emerson (D) , Fitzgerald (D) , J. Jacobson (D) , Joers (D) , Neubauer (D) , Roe (D) , Sheehan (D) , Sinicki (D) , Spaude (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Taylor (D)

Full history

  1. Feb 26, 2026 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Wall, Dassler-Alfheim, Larson, Roys and Spreitzer; cosponsored by Representatives Bare, J. Jacobson, Spaude, Sheehan, Brown, Clancy, DeSanto, Emerson, Fitzgerald, Joers, Neubauer, Roe, Sinicki, Stubbs and Taylor

  2. Feb 26, 2026 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Agriculture and Revenue

  3. Mar 12, 2026 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Mar 18, 2026 · Senate

    Representative Anderson added as a cosponsor

  5. Mar 19, 2026 · Senate

    Representative Subeck added as a cosponsor

  6. Mar 23, 2026 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1