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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Renewing Washington's international leadership."
+description: "Renewing Washington's international leadership."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2023-2024"
+identifier: "HB 2000"
+citation: "Washington HB 2000 (2023-2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Mena"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 35
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2023-12-21"
+last_action: "2024-03-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e2fa812e-4f15-4d96-bebc-909771fc03e1"
+source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=2000&year=2023"
+source_hash: "b95c82910b0a420015489be1015bf20e0fbe614ff04d9e13b64aac6c481adddd"
+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 2000 (2023-2024) — Renewing Washington's international leadership.
+
+## 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/2000.htm)
+2. **Engrossed Second Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/2000-S2.E.htm)
+3. **Second Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/2000-S2.htm)
+4. **Second Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/2000-S2.PL.htm)
+5. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/2000-S.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#38) — **74–22** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#24) — **65–32** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#56) — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Mena — primary (person)
+- Berry — cosponsor (person)
+- Cheney — cosponsor (person)
+- Cortes — cosponsor (person)
+- Hackney — cosponsor (person)
+- Low — cosponsor (person)
+- Nance — cosponsor (person)
+- Ramel — cosponsor (person)
+- Reed — cosponsor (person)
+- Ryu — cosponsor (person)
+- Santos — cosponsor (person)
+- Timmons — cosponsor (person)
+- Walen — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-12-21** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
+- **2024-01-08** First reading, referred to State Government & Tribal Relations. `reading-1`
+- **2024-01-10** Public hearing in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations at 1:30 PM.
+- **2024-01-12** Executive action taken in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations at 8:30 AM.
+- **2024-01-12** SGOV - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
+- **2024-01-12** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2024-01-15** Referred to Appropriations. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-25** Public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 4:00 PM.
+- **2024-01-31** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Appropriations at 4:00 PM.
+- **2024-01-31** APP - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
+- **2024-02-05** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-07** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-09** 2nd substitute bill substituted (APP 24). `substitution`
+- **2024-02-09** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
+- **2024-02-09** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-09** Third reading, passed; yeas, 65; nays, 32; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-13** First reading, referred to Business, Financial Services, Gaming & Trade. `reading-1`
+- **2024-02-15** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Business, Financial Services, Gaming & Trade at 10:30 AM.
+- **2024-02-20** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Business, Financial Services, Gaming & Trade at 8:00 AM.
+- **2024-02-20** BFGT - Majority; do pass with amendment(s). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-02-20** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2024-02-20** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
+- **2024-02-27** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-29** Committee amendment not adopted. `amendment-failure`
+- **2024-02-29** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
+- **2024-02-29** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-29** Third reading, passed; yeas, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
+- **2024-03-05** House concurred in Senate amendments.
+- **2024-03-05** Passed final passage; yeas, 74; nays, 22; absent, 0; excused, 1. `passage`
+- **2024-03-06** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2024-03-07** President signed. `passage`
+- **2024-03-07** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-03-28** Governor partially vetoed. `executive-veto-line-item`
+- **2024-03-28** Chapter 336, 2024 Laws. `became-law`
+- **2024-03-28** 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/e2fa812e-4f15-4d96-bebc-909771fc03e1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
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