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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Making state law consistent with selected federal consumer protections in the patient protection and affordable care act."
+description: "Making state law consistent with selected federal consumer protections in the patient protection and affordable care act."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2019-2020"
+identifier: "HB 1870"
+citation: "Washington HB 1870 (2019-2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["HEALTH CARE", "CONSUMER PROTECTION", "NAMED ACTS"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Davis"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 35
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2019-02-04"
+last_action: "2019-04-17"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3f80db14-5e9b-4d71-8eaa-86e85f516502"
+source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1870&year=2019"
+source_hash: "450c3a6cedd7f248a9622c83fcac14efbabf79e45efe4f60fd77c472beea2a2f"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wa"]
+---
+
+# Washington HB 1870 (2019-2020) — Making state law consistent with selected federal consumer protections in the patient protection and affordable care act.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2019-20/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1870.htm)
+2. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2019-20/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1870-S.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Final Passage (#38) — **56–38** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#12) — **28–17** (pass) · upper
+- 416 O'Ban Pg 1 Ln 2 (#11) — **14–31** (fail) · upper
+- Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#2) — **56–37** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Davis — primary (person)
+- Appleton — cosponsor (person)
+- Bergquist — cosponsor (person)
+- Cody — cosponsor (person)
+- Dolan — cosponsor (person)
+- Fey — cosponsor (person)
+- Fitzgibbon — cosponsor (person)
+- Goodman — cosponsor (person)
+- Gregerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Jinkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Kilduff — cosponsor (person)
+- Kirby — cosponsor (person)
+- Kloba — cosponsor (person)
+- Mead — cosponsor (person)
+- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
+- Orwall — cosponsor (person)
+- Peterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Pollet — cosponsor (person)
+- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
+- Ryu — cosponsor (person)
+- Senn — cosponsor (person)
+- Stanford — cosponsor (person)
+- Thai — cosponsor (person)
+- Tharinger — cosponsor (person)
+- Valdez — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-04** First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness. `reading-1`
+- **2019-02-20** HCW - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `passage`
+- **2019-02-20** Minority; do not pass.
+- **2019-02-20** Minority; without recommendation.
+- **2019-02-22** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
+- **2019-02-28** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
+- **2019-03-01** 1st substitute bill substituted. `substitution`
+- **2019-02-20** HCW - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `passage`
+- **2019-02-20** Minority; do not pass.
+- **2019-02-20** Minority; without recommendation.
+- **2019-02-22** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
+- **2019-02-28** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
+- **2019-03-01** 1st substitute bill substituted. `substitution`
+- **2019-03-01** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
+- **2019-03-01** Third reading, passed; yeas, 56; nays, 38; absent, 0; excused, 4. `reading-3`
+- **2019-03-05** First reading, referred to Health & Long Term Care. `reading-1`
+- **2019-03-20** HLTC - Majority; do pass with amendment(s).
+- **2019-03-20** Minority; without recommendation.
+- **2019-03-21** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
+- **2019-03-26** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
+- **2019-03-27** Committee amendment(s) adopted as amended.
+- **2019-03-27** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
+- **2019-03-27** Third reading, passed; yeas, 28; nays, 17; absent, 0; excused, 4. `reading-3`
+- **2019-04-01** House concurred in Senate amendments.
+- **2019-04-01** Passed final passage; yeas, 56; nays, 35; absent, 0; excused, 5. `passage`
+- **2019-04-05** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2019-04-08** President signed. `passage`
+- **2019-04-11** Delivered to Governor.
+- **2019-04-17** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2019-04-17** Chapter 33, 2019 Laws. `became-law`
+- **2019-04-17** Effective date 4/17/2019. `became-law`
+- **2019-02-12T18:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 01:30 PM
+- **2019-02-20T18:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 01:30 PM
+- **2019-03-15T12:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Health & Long Term Care at 08:00 AM
+- **2019-03-20T17:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Health & Long Term Care at 01:30 PM
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3f80db14-5e9b-4d71-8eaa-86e85f516502`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
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