Legislation: batch E — CA TN VA VT WA WI WV WY

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legislation/us/states/wa/2023-2024/hb-1541.md

@@ -0,0 +1,147 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Establishing the nothing about us without us act."
+description: "Establishing the nothing about us without us act."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2023-2024"
+identifier: "HB 1541"
+citation: "Washington HB 1541 (2023-2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Farivar"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 48
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2023-01-24"
+last_action: "2024-03-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cb0c007b-d2d8-4c96-9f80-07c756ddb102"
+source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1541&year=2023"
+source_hash: "c3bb4e1d4f83d3be28438f8ae9c43b4223bdd5433a9649835172cf78f2ca17be"
+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 1541 (2023-2024) — Establishing the nothing about us without us 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/1541.htm)
+2. **Engrossed Second Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1541-S2.E.htm)
+3. **Second Engrossed Second Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1541-S2.E2.htm)
+4. **Second Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1541-S2.htm)
+5. **Second Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1541-S2.PL.htm)
+6. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1541-S.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#6) — **83–14** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#2) — **83–12** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#25) — **40–9** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Farivar — primary (person)
+- Alvarado — cosponsor (person)
+- Barnard — cosponsor (person)
+- Bateman — cosponsor (person)
+- Bergquist — cosponsor (person)
+- Berry — cosponsor (person)
+- Caldier — cosponsor (person)
+- Couture — cosponsor (person)
+- Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- Doglio — cosponsor (person)
+- Duerr — cosponsor (person)
+- Eslick — cosponsor (person)
+- Fosse — cosponsor (person)
+- Goodman — cosponsor (person)
+- Gregerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Griffey — cosponsor (person)
+- Hackney — cosponsor (person)
+- Kloba — cosponsor (person)
+- Macri — cosponsor (person)
+- Mena — cosponsor (person)
+- Ormsby — cosponsor (person)
+- Ortiz-Self — cosponsor (person)
+- Orwall — cosponsor (person)
+- Peterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Pollet — cosponsor (person)
+- Ramel — cosponsor (person)
+- Reed — cosponsor (person)
+- Riccelli — cosponsor (person)
+- Ryu — cosponsor (person)
+- Schmidt — cosponsor (person)
+- Simmons — cosponsor (person)
+- Stonier — cosponsor (person)
+- Street — cosponsor (person)
+- Taylor — cosponsor (person)
+- Thai — cosponsor (person)
+- Tharinger — cosponsor (person)
+- Volz — cosponsor (person)
+- Walen — cosponsor (person)
+- Waters — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-24** First reading, referred to State Government & Tribal Relations. `reading-1`
+- **2023-02-03** Public hearing in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations at 8:00 AM.
+- **2023-02-10** Executive action taken in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations at 8:00 AM.
+- **2023-02-10** SGOV - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
+- **2023-02-10** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2023-02-10** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2023-02-14** Referred to Appropriations. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-22** Public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 1:30 PM.
+- **2023-02-24** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Appropriations at 9:00 AM.
+- **2023-02-24** APP - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
+- **2023-02-24** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2023-02-24** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-02** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
+- **2023-03-07** 2nd substitute bill substituted (APP 23). `substitution`
+- **2023-03-07** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
+- **2023-03-07** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-03-07** Third reading, passed; yeas, 83; nays, 12; absent, 0; excused, 3. `reading-3`
+- **2023-03-09** First reading, referred to State Government & Elections. `reading-1`
+- **2023-03-21** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on State Government & Elections at 1:30 PM.
+- **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 with amendment(s). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-03-24** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2023-03-24** And refer to Ways & Means. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-27** Referred to Ways & Means. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-31** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 12:45 PM.
+- **2023-04-03** Executive session scheduled, but no action was taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 10:00 AM.
+- **2023-04-23** By resolution, returned to House Rules Committee for third reading.
+- **2024-01-08** By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
+- **2024-02-02** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on third reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-06** Returned to second reading for amendment.
+- **2024-02-06** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
+- **2024-02-06** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-06** Third reading, passed; yeas, 83; nays, 14; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-08** First reading, referred to State Government & Elections. `reading-1`
+- **2024-02-16** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on State Government & Elections at 8:00 AM.
+- **2024-02-20** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on State Government & Elections at 1:30 PM.
+- **2024-02-20** SGE - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-02-20** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2024-02-21** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
+- **2024-02-23** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-28** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-28** Third reading, passed; yeas, 40; nays, 9; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-29** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2024-03-01** President signed. `passage`
+- **2024-03-04** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-03-26** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2024-03-26** Chapter 283, 2024 Laws. `became-law`
+- **2024-03-26** Effective date 6/6/2024*. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cb0c007b-d2d8-4c96-9f80-07c756ddb102`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
+