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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Concerning meetings of county legislative authorities."
+description: "Concerning meetings of county legislative authorities."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2023-2024"
+identifier: "HB 1645"
+citation: "Washington HB 1645 (2023-2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Barnard"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-01-27"
+last_action: "2023-04-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/435e4090-3866-4ec4-8f9b-415eda549318"
+source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1645&year=2023"
+source_hash: "e1d1badbbdb9dc6f470af621cd34e39d130012444314fb8d3b06bd7998a266e1"
+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 1645 (2023-2024) — Concerning meetings of county legislative authorities.
+
+## 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/1645.htm)
+2. **Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1645.PL.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#22) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#20) — **47–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Barnard — primary (person)
+- Chambers — cosponsor (person)
+- Cheney — cosponsor (person)
+- Connors — cosponsor (person)
+- Duerr — cosponsor (person)
+- Eslick — cosponsor (person)
+- Fitzgibbon — cosponsor (person)
+- Hutchins — cosponsor (person)
+- Lekanoff — cosponsor (person)
+- Low — cosponsor (person)
+- Macri — cosponsor (person)
+- Maycumber — cosponsor (person)
+- McClintock — cosponsor (person)
+- McEntire — cosponsor (person)
+- Ramel — cosponsor (person)
+- Reed — cosponsor (person)
+- Riccelli — cosponsor (person)
+- Rude — cosponsor (person)
+- Sandlin — cosponsor (person)
+- Street — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-27** First reading, referred to Local Government. `reading-1`
+- **2023-02-15** Public hearing in the House Committee on Local Government at 8:00 AM.
+- **2023-02-17** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Local Government at 10:30 AM.
+- **2023-02-17** LG - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-02-17** 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** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-03-04** Third reading, passed; yeas, 96; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 2. `reading-3`
+- **2023-03-07** First reading, referred to Local Government, Land Use & Tribal Affairs. `reading-1`
+- **2023-03-14** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Local Government, Land Use & Tribal Affairs at 8:00 AM.
+- **2023-03-14** LGLT - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-03-15** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
+- **2023-03-28** Placed on second reading consent calendar. `reading-2`
+- **2023-03-31** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-03-31** Third reading, passed; yeas, 47; nays, 1; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
+- **2023-04-03** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2023-04-04** President signed. `passage`
+- **2023-04-07** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-04-13** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2023-04-13** Chapter 84, 2023 Laws. `became-law`
+- **2023-04-13** Effective date 7/23/2023. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/435e4090-3866-4ec4-8f9b-415eda549318`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
+