WA SB5532

Administrative office of the courts may develop mandatory training on child abuse for judges, guardians ad litem, mediators, and court personnel, requiring 20 hours initial training and 15 hours every five years covering sexual, physical, psychological abuse, bias, and trauma

Adds performing reunification therapy with a parent who physically or sexually abused a child (before meeting domestic violence requirements under RCW 7.105.405) as unprofessional conduct for licensed health professionals

Courts must consider evidence of past abuse including protection orders, arrests, convictions, and documentation from victim advocates when domestic violence or child abuse claims arise in parental responsibility cases

Prohibits courts from removing children from protective parents solely to improve relationships with accused abusers, and bars reunification treatment that lacks scientific validity or requires cutting off the protective parent relationship

Orders addressing a child's resistance to contact with an accused parent must primarily require the accused to accept responsibility for harmful actions, and courts cannot order remediation if the accused sexually abused the child