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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Enhancing the Washington voting rights act."
+description: "Enhancing the Washington voting rights act."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2023-2024"
+identifier: "HB 1048"
+citation: "Washington HB 1048 (2023-2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Mena"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 29
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2022-12-16"
+last_action: "2023-04-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ec88b2b7-b36b-4c51-aceb-199a8c6e1dc5"
+source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1048&year=2023"
+source_hash: "0fbc0266ab1962eb5081eef83a44fec6e4e13d64cdea419c5781ddd905f809c8"
+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 1048 (2023-2024) — Enhancing the Washington voting rights 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/2023-24/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1048.htm)
+2. **Engrossed Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1048-S.E.htm)
+3. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1048-S.htm)
+4. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1048-S.PL.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#35) — **57–38** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#16) — **27–21** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Mena — primary (person)
+- Bergquist — cosponsor (person)
+- Berry — cosponsor (person)
+- Cortes — cosponsor (person)
+- Doglio — cosponsor (person)
+- Farivar — cosponsor (person)
+- Goodman — cosponsor (person)
+- Gregerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Macri — cosponsor (person)
+- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
+- Ormsby — cosponsor (person)
+- Peterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Pollet — cosponsor (person)
+- Ramel — cosponsor (person)
+- Santos — cosponsor (person)
+- Simmons — cosponsor (person)
+- Street — cosponsor (person)
+- Wylie — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-12-16** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
+- **2023-01-09** First reading, referred to State Government & Tribal Relations. `reading-1`
+- **2023-01-13** Public hearing in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations at 8:00 AM.
+- **2023-01-18** Executive session scheduled, but no action was taken in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations at 1:30 PM.
+- **2023-01-20** Executive action taken in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations at 8:00 AM.
+- **2023-01-20** SGOV - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
+- **2023-01-20** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2023-01-24** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-02** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
+- **2023-03-04** 1st substitute bill substituted (SGOV 23). `substitution`
+- **2023-03-04** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
+- **2023-03-04** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-03-04** Third reading, passed; yeas, 57; nays, 38; absent, 0; excused, 3. `reading-3`
+- **2023-03-07** First reading, referred to State Government & Elections. `reading-1`
+- **2023-03-14** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on State Government & Elections at 1:30 PM.
+- **2023-03-17** Executive session scheduled, but no action was taken in the Senate Committee on State Government & Elections at 8:00 AM.
+- **2023-03-24** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on State Government & Elections at 8:00 AM.
+- **2023-03-24** SGE - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-03-24** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2023-03-27** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
+- **2023-03-30** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
+- **2023-04-05** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-04-05** Third reading, passed; yeas, 27; nays, 21; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
+- **2023-04-06** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2023-04-06** President signed. `passage`
+- **2023-04-07** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-04-13** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2023-04-13** Chapter 56, 2023 Laws. `became-law`
+- **2023-04-13** Effective date 1/1/2024. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ec88b2b7-b36b-4c51-aceb-199a8c6e1dc5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
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