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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Concerning harassment and discrimination by legislators and legislative branch employees."
+description: "Concerning harassment and discrimination by legislators and legislative branch employees."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2019-2020"
+identifier: "HB 2018"
+citation: "Washington HB 2018 (2019-2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["SEX OFFENSES AND OFFENDERS", "LEGISLATURE", "DISCRIMINATION", "ETHICS IN GOVERNMENT"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Morgan"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 38
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-02-12"
+last_action: "2019-05-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1b31a61b-4091-4ae6-9067-6fe088c3e5d7"
+source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=2018&year=2019"
+source_hash: "5ec5d50f509be25809f28de6422054caf6a30e9ec10adbd46efeb71f9bc9d80f"
+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 2018 (2019-2020) — Concerning harassment and discrimination by legislators and legislative branch employees.
+
+## 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/2018.htm)
+2. **Engrossed Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2019-20/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/2018-S.E.htm)
+3. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2019-20/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/2018-S.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#57) — **34–11** (pass) · upper
+- Final Passage (#3) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#9) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Morgan — primary (person)
+- Appleton — cosponsor (person)
+- Bergquist — cosponsor (person)
+- Chapman — cosponsor (person)
+- Chopp — cosponsor (person)
+- Cody — cosponsor (person)
+- Doglio — cosponsor (person)
+- Dolan — cosponsor (person)
+- Fey — cosponsor (person)
+- Fitzgibbon — cosponsor (person)
+- Frame — cosponsor (person)
+- Goodman — cosponsor (person)
+- Hansen — cosponsor (person)
+- Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Hudgins — cosponsor (person)
+- Irwin — cosponsor (person)
+- Jinkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Kilduff — cosponsor (person)
+- Leavitt — cosponsor (person)
+- Lekanoff — cosponsor (person)
+- Lovick — cosponsor (person)
+- Macri — cosponsor (person)
+- Ormsby — cosponsor (person)
+- Pellicciotti — cosponsor (person)
+- Pettigrew — cosponsor (person)
+- Pollet — cosponsor (person)
+- Reeves — cosponsor (person)
+- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
+- Ryu — cosponsor (person)
+- Santos — cosponsor (person)
+- Senn — cosponsor (person)
+- Shewmake — cosponsor (person)
+- Slatter — cosponsor (person)
+- Stanford — cosponsor (person)
+- Tarleton — cosponsor (person)
+- Thai — cosponsor (person)
+- Tharinger — cosponsor (person)
+- Valdez — cosponsor (person)
+- Walen — cosponsor (person)
+- Wylie — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-12** First reading, referred to State Government & Tribal Relations. `reading-1`
+- **2019-02-22** SGOV - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `passage`
+- **2019-02-22** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
+- **2019-03-06** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading.
+- **2019-03-07** 1st substitute bill substituted. `substitution`
+- **2019-02-22** SGOV - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `passage`
+- **2019-02-22** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
+- **2019-03-06** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading.
+- **2019-03-07** 1st substitute bill substituted. `substitution`
+- **2019-03-07** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
+- **2019-03-07** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
+- **2019-03-07** Third reading, passed; yeas, 98; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
+- **2019-03-11** First reading, referred to State Government, Tribal Relations & Elections. `reading-1`
+- **2019-03-29** SGTE - Majority; do pass with amendment(s).
+- **2019-03-29** And refer to Ways & Means. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-02** Referred to Ways & Means.
+- **2019-04-09** WM - Majority; do pass with amendment(s) by State Government, Tribal Relations & Elections.
+- **2019-04-09** Minority; do not pass.
+- **2019-04-09** Minority; without recommendation.
+- **2019-04-09** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
+- **2019-04-15** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
+- **2019-04-15** Committee amendment(s) adopted with no other amendments.
+- **2019-04-15** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
+- **2019-04-15** Third reading, passed; yeas, 34; nays, 11; absent, 0; excused, 4. `reading-3`
+- **2019-04-22** House concurred in Senate amendments.
+- **2019-04-22** Passed final passage; yeas, 96; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 2. `passage`
+- **2019-04-24** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2019-04-25** President signed. `passage`
+- **2019-04-26** Delivered to Governor.
+- **2019-05-13** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2019-05-13** Chapter 383, 2019 Laws. `became-law`
+- **2019-05-13** Effective date 7/28/2019. `became-law`
+- **2019-02-20T18:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations at 01:30 PM
+- **2019-02-22T13:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations at 08:00 AM
+- **2019-03-22T17:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on State Government, Tribal Relations & Elections at 01:30 PM
+- **2019-03-29T17:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on State Government, Tribal Relations & Elections at 01:30 PM
+- **2019-04-05T13:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 09:00 AM
+- **2019-04-09T14:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 10:00 AM
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1b31a61b-4091-4ae6-9067-6fe088c3e5d7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
+