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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Adopting the social work licensure compact."
+description: "Adopting the social work licensure compact."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2023-2024"
+identifier: "HB 1939"
+citation: "Washington HB 1939 (2023-2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Orwall"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-12-13"
+last_action: "2024-03-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e3f64240-73f1-4ce3-8e1d-2a33c842f52f"
+source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1939&year=2023"
+source_hash: "b7a3e05fb24af7e3c83e3f3c047eb575bb7cda904b29b551936d979c37535da8"
+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 1939 (2023-2024) — Adopting the social work licensure compact.
+
+## 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/1939.htm)
+2. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1939-S.htm)
+3. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1939-S.PL.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#38) — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#8) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Orwall — primary (person)
+- Bateman — cosponsor (person)
+- Callan — cosponsor (person)
+- Doglio — cosponsor (person)
+- Donaghy — cosponsor (person)
+- Goodman — cosponsor (person)
+- Hackney — cosponsor (person)
+- Jacobsen — cosponsor (person)
+- Leavitt — cosponsor (person)
+- Macri — cosponsor (person)
+- Reed — cosponsor (person)
+- Reeves — cosponsor (person)
+- Riccelli — cosponsor (person)
+- Rule — cosponsor (person)
+- Shavers — cosponsor (person)
+- Slatter — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-12-13** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
+- **2024-01-08** First reading, referred to Postsecondary Education & Workforce. `reading-1`
+- **2024-01-10** Public hearing in the House Committee on Postsecondary Education & Workforce at 1:30 PM.
+- **2024-01-12** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Postsecondary Education & Workforce at 8:00 AM.
+- **2024-01-12** PEW - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
+- **2024-01-16** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-23** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
+- **2024-01-29** 1st substitute bill substituted (PEW 24). `substitution`
+- **2024-01-29** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-01-29** Third reading, passed; yeas, 96; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 2. `reading-3`
+- **2024-01-30** First reading, referred to Health & Long Term Care. `reading-1`
+- **2024-02-15** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Health & Long Term Care at 10:30 AM.
+- **2024-02-16** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Health & Long Term Care at 8:00 AM.
+- **2024-02-16** HLTC - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-02-16** And refer to Ways & Means. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-19** Referred to Ways & Means. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-22** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 1:30 PM.
+- **2024-02-22** WM - Majority; without recommendation.
+- **2024-02-26** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
+- **2024-02-27** 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, 49; nays, 0; 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`
+- **2024-03-19** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2024-03-19** Chapter 176, 2024 Laws. `became-law`
+- **2024-03-19** 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/e3f64240-73f1-4ce3-8e1d-2a33c842f52f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
+