The 2025-27 Biennium began July 1, 2025 and ends June 30, 2027. The biennial budget is deliberated during the 2025 legislative session. Supplemental budgets will be considered in both the 2026 legislative session (2026 Supplemental Budget) and the 2027 legislative session (2027 Supplemental Budget).

Maintenance level requests reflect the cost of mandatory caseload, enrollment, inflation, and other legally unavoidable costs not contemplated in the current budget.

Policy level requests represent revised strategies or substantial differences in program direction and can include proposed program reductions.

Maintenance and Policy requests may be positive or negative adjustments to an agency’s budget.

2026 Supplemental Budget

2026 Supplemental Budget Request

Summaries

• 2026 Supplemental One-Page Summary
• 2026 Supplemental Recommendation Summary
• 2026 Supplemental Summary Table

Decision Packages

Maintenance Level

• D1 Correct Public Defense Grants Proviso
• D2 Purchasing Transcripts of Court Records
• D3 Casey Family & ABA Grant Funding

Policy Level

• D8 Parents Representation Caseload Standards
• D5 Appellate Caseload Standards
• D6 Blake Response & SPAR Program
• D7 Adult and Juvenile Resentencing

2025-27 Biennial Budget

Summaries

• 2025-27 Enacted Biennial Budget Summary
• 2025-27 Biennial Request Recommendation Summary

Decision Packages

Maintenance Level

• A1 Maintain Chief Information Officer Position
• A2 OPD IT Modernization
• 8L Agency Lease Increase
• A4 Agency FTE Reconciliation
• A5 Reduce General Fund Federal Appropriations

OPD Policy Level

• 1A Appellate Backlog Response
• 1B Vendor Rate Adjustment for Contract Attorneys
• 1C Vendor Rate Adjustment for Social Workers
• 1D Expert, Investigator, Litigation Costs for Parents Rep - 71.09 - & Appeals
• 1E Blake Response - Correcting Unconstitutional Convictions
• 1F Simple Possession Advocacy and Representation Program - SB 5336
• 1G Parents Representation Client Emergency Fund
• 1H Statewide Evaluation of Public Defense Services
• 1J Advanced Criminal Defense Training Academy
• 1K Family Defense Law School Practicum
• 1K Law School Practicum - Seattle University MOU - Attachment B
• 1L Reflective Practice Training
• 1M Agency Professionalization
• 1N Funding for RCW 10.101 Public Defense Grants & New Innovation Grants
• 1P Parents for Parents Statewide Operations
• 1Q Service Capacity for Incarcerated Parents
• 1R Washington Defender Association Resource Support
• 1S Redemption Project of Washington
• 1T Appellate Caseload Standard Implementation