@pipeworx/washington-code

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Washington state law and legislative activity from the Legislature’s own sources, keyless: the Revised Code of Washington (RCW, statutes) by citation, the Washington Administrative Code (WAC, agency rules) by citation, by topic, by structure, by year-end archive, and by rule-making history, and legislative bills — status, amendments and floor votes — by bill number and biennium.

Tools

Citations accept the RCW/WAC prefix, letter-suffixed titles and chapters (296-14A-100, 132C-120-010), and typographic dashes. Bill numbers accept any chamber/version prefix (HB 1000, SHB 1000, 2SHB 1000, bare 1000). Every response carries data_as_of, source and (for RCW/WAC) the exact upstream url.

The four capabilities, and which one is only partly there

Miss signals — positive, not inferred

• RCW: a bad citation renders a panel with the id pnlCitationNotFound (HTTP 200). The pack keys on that panel.
• WAC: a nonexistent section answers an HTTP 302 to the chapter’s dispositions page (?dispo=true&cite=296-800). The pack fetches with redirect: 'manual' and reads the miss from the status line, returning found:false, reason:"section_not_found" with the dispositions link.
• Anything else that is not a 200 throws a loud error naming the upstream status. A transport failure is never reshaped into found:false (src/index.test.ts pins this — the oklahoma-code lesson, fleet #2742).
• Bills: a nonexistent bill number/biennium combination answers HTTP 200 with an empty array — there is no 404 or error panel for this case. wa_bill_status reads zero records as found:false, reason:"bill_not_found". wa_bill_amendments and wa_bill_votes read an empty list as a normal zero-result answer (a bill can genuinely have no amendments or no recorded roll call), not a miss — the note says so and points at wa_bill_status to confirm the bill itself exists.

Bill tracking (added fleet #3240)

Reads directly from the Washington State Legislature’s own bill-tracking web service — not a third-party aggregator (LegiScan/OpenStates already cover all 50 states generically; this is the Legislature’s own free data for Washington specifically). Bills are addressed by (biennium, bill number): Washington runs a two-year biennium starting on an odd year ("2025-26"), and bill numbers are reassigned each biennium, so the same number is a different bill two years later. All four tools default to the current biennium when omitted.

wa_session_bills’s status filter and what each needs:

wa_session_bills and the bulk Legislature listings it wraps carry no description field — only id, type, chamber and active flag. Call wa_bill_status on a specific bill id for its description and current status.

Archive filenames are fixed-width (measured 2026-10-07)

lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/wacarchive/<year>/htm/… names files with space-padded fields: the numeric title and chapter are right-aligned to 3 characters and padded to 4, the section is appended as typed:

296-800-110  →  WAC 296 -800 -110.htm
1-04-010     →  WAC   1 - 04 -010.htm

2019–2023 nest the file under WAC 296 TITLE/WAC 296 -800 CHAPTER/; 2024 onward is flat under WAC 296 -800 CHAPTER/. The resolver tries the likely layout for the year first and the other second; a 404 at both is section_not_in_archive with the URLs tried, so a one-space error cannot masquerade as “the rule did not exist that year”. The tests pin both layouts.

The search index is the Legislature’s own, read as its client does

leg.wa.gov/search is a thin client over a SearchUnify instance. Its host, client uid and per-client access token are served to every anonymous visitor inside the client bundle (an.js), so they are configuration we read, not a credential we hold; the pack caches them and re-reads the bundle once if the API rejects them. Requests identify as pipeworx-mcp-washington-code — no Origin or Referer is sent and none is needed (verified 2026-10-07: identical results with and without). cite_prefix filtering is client-side over the top 50 index hits, and the response says so in total_matches_note.

Edge probe (2026-10-07)

Per the standing rule for any new upstream host, every URL shape the WAC tools use was fetched from a throwaway wrangler dev --remote Worker on the prod account before deploy. All answered a Cloudflare Worker exactly as they answer a laptop — no relay needed:

app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=296-800-110         200  117,345 B
app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=296-800-99999       302  → /WAC/default.aspx?dispo=true&cite=296-800
app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/                                      200  144,207 B
app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=296-800             200  187,138 B
app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/registerfiling.aspx?cite=296-800-110  200  109,878 B
lawfilesext…/wacarchive/2020/htm/WAC 296  TITLE/…        200   10,076 B
lawfilesext…/wacarchive/2024/htm/WAC 296 -800  CHAPTER/… 200   10,076 B
lh112524p.searchunify.com/search/searchResultByPost      200   11,313 matches for "safety bulletin board"

Smoke (pre-deploy, 2026-10-07)

smoke.json holds the arguments; all six tools returned non-empty payloads: wa_wac_section 296-800-110 1,386 chars of text + 4-filing history, wa_wac_search "safety bulletin board" 5 of 11,313, wa_wac_browse 296-800 136 sections, wa_wac_archived_section 296-800-110 @2020 1,386 chars, wa_wac_filings 296-800-110 4 WSR filings.

Smoke — bill tracking (pre-deploy, 2026-10-18)

All four bill tools returned non-empty live payloads against the current (2025-26) biennium: wa_bill_status({bill:"HB 1002"}) → status “H Rules 3C”, 10 sponsors; wa_bill_amendments({bill:"1002", biennium:"2023-24"}) → 1 amendment, ADOPTED 2023-04-05; wa_bill_votes({bill:"HB 1002"}) → House 3rd Reading vote, 70 yea / 24 nay / 4 excused, 2026-02-10; wa_session_bills({biennium:"2025-26", status:"passed_legislature"}) → 709 bills (397 House / 312 Senate); wa_session_bills({..., status:"signed", agency:"House"}) → 385 bills. The miss case (wa_bill_status({bill:"99999", biennium:"2025-26"})) returned found:false, reason:"bill_not_found" from a genuine empty-array upstream response, not a guess.

Caveats

• RCW and WAC numbers are not contiguous; repealed and recodified sections are normal. wa_wac_browse on the chapter shows what exists today.
• A cite_prefix search that returns zero is a real zero under that prefix in the top 50 hits, not a failure; the note says how many index-wide matches there were.

Data source

Washington State Legislature — app.leg.wa.gov (current RCW and WAC, WSR filings), lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov (annual WAC archive), the Legislature’s site-search index, and the Legislature’s own legislative bill-tracking data (status, amendments, sponsors, floor votes). Keyless. Washington statutes, agency rules and legislative bill records are public record.

Tools

• wa_rcw_section — Get the FULL TEXT of a section of the Revised Code of Washington (RCW) — Washington state STATUTES — by citation. “RCW 9A.32.030” is first degree murder. Returns the statutory text and its heading. Ke
• wa_wac_section — Get the CURRENT FULL TEXT of a section of the Washington Administrative Code (WAC) — Washington state agency RULES / regulations — by citation. “WAC 296-800-110” is L&I’s safe-workplace summary; “458-
• wa_wac_search — Search the FULL TEXT of the Washington Administrative Code (WAC) by topic or keyword — “workplace safety bulletin board”, “security deposit”, “septic system permit”, “cannabis retailer”. Calls the Was
• wa_wac_browse — Browse the structure of the Washington Administrative Code (WAC): with no cite, lists every WAC TITLE with the agency it belongs to (Title 296 = Labor and Industries, 458 = Revenue, 388 = Social and H
• wa_wac_archived_section — Get the text of a Washington Administrative Code (WAC) section AS IT STOOD at the end of a PAST YEAR, from the Legislature’s annual WAC archive. Year-end snapshots with full text for 2019 onward (e.g.
• wa_wac_filings — List the Washington State Register (WSR) rule-making FILINGS that affected a Washington Administrative Code (WAC) section or chapter — the amendment history as agency actions: WSR number, filing type
• wa_bill_status — Get the current status of a Washington State LEGISLATIVE BILL — its description, legal title, sponsor(s), introduced date, procedural history line and current status (e.g. “H Rules X”, “Passed Legisla
• wa_bill_amendments — List the AMENDMENTS proposed to a Washington State legislative bill — amendment name/drafting number, sponsor (member or committee), type (floor/committee), description, floor action (ADOPTED/FAILED/W
• wa_bill_votes — Get the recorded FLOOR ROLL-CALL VOTES on a Washington State legislative bill — chamber, motion (“3rd Reading & Final Passage”), date, and yea/nay/absent/excused counts with the voting legislators nam
• wa_session_bills — List Washington State legislative bills for a BIENNIUM filtered by procedural status: “introduced” (every bill filed, default), “passed_house”, “passed_senate”, “passed_legislature”, “signed” (by the