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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Clarifying employment standards for long-term care individual providers."
+description: "Clarifying employment standards for long-term care individual providers."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2023-2024"
+identifier: "HB 1942"
+citation: "Washington HB 1942 (2023-2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Fosse"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 36
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-12-13"
+last_action: "2024-03-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/43bfe93f-2e57-47c0-827b-877dab30827e"
+source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1942&year=2023"
+source_hash: "b48a6797bbd5e8ea0f78c1a23027db032f95eea991ce51bb57ebf85d97031cf4"
+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 1942 (2023-2024) — Clarifying employment standards for long-term care individual providers.
+
+## 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/1942.htm)
+2. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1942-S.htm)
+3. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1942-S.PL.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#15) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#30) — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Fosse — primary (person)
+- Macri — cosponsor (person)
+- Ormsby — cosponsor (person)
+- Ortiz-Self — cosponsor (person)
+- Reed — cosponsor (person)
+- Rule — cosponsor (person)
+- Schmidt — cosponsor (person)
+- Simmons — 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 Labor & Workplace Standards. `reading-1`
+- **2024-01-12** Public hearing in the House Committee on Labor & Workplace Standards at 10:30 AM.
+- **2024-01-19** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Labor & Workplace Standards at 10:30 AM.
+- **2024-01-19** LAWS - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
+- **2024-01-23** Referred to Appropriations. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-01** Public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 10:30 AM.
+- **2024-02-03** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Appropriations at 9:00 AM.
+- **2024-02-03** APP - Majority; do pass 1st substitute bill proposed by Labor & Workplace Standards. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-02-05** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-09** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-12** 1st substitute bill substituted (LAWS 24). `substitution`
+- **2024-02-12** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-12** Third reading, passed; yeas, 97; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-14** First reading, referred to Labor & Commerce. `reading-1`
+- **2024-02-19** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Labor & Commerce at 10:30 AM.
+- **2024-02-20** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Labor & Commerce at 10:30 AM.
+- **2024-02-20** LC - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-02-20** And refer to Ways & Means. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-20** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2024-02-20** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2024-02-21** Referred to Ways & Means. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-23** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 1:30 PM.
+- **2024-02-26** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 10:00 AM.
+- **2024-02-26** WM - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-02-26** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2024-02-26** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
+- **2024-02-29** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
+- **2024-03-01** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-03-01** Third reading, passed; yeas, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
+- **2024-03-04** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2024-03-05** President signed. `passage`
+- **2024-03-06** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-03-25** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2024-03-25** Chapter 224, 2024 Laws. `became-law`
+- **2024-03-25** 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/43bfe93f-2e57-47c0-827b-877dab30827e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
+