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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Concerning the mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, and social workers advisory committee."
+description: "Concerning the mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, and social workers advisory committee."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "HB 1234"
+citation: "Washington HB 1234 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Simmons"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-09"
+last_action: "2025-04-07"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/30ddf559-5bd5-48a8-b3af-1c2d263d8c48"
+source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=1234&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
+source_hash: "c152cb66d581777309dadf142b11d19d2278d033a33a721eabf2c0fc9a667b63"
+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 1234 (2025-2026) — Concerning the mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, and social workers advisory committee.
+
+## 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/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1234.htm)
+2. **Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1234.PL.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#1) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#21) — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Simmons — primary (person)
+- Rule — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-09** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
+- **2025-01-13** First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness. `reading-1`
+- **2025-01-22** Public hearing in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 1:30 PM.
+- **2025-01-24** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 8:00 AM.
+- **2025-01-24** HCW - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-01-27** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-28** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-06** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-06** Third reading, passed; yeas, 96; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 2. `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-07** First reading, referred to Health & Long-Term Care. `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-14** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Health & Long-Term Care at 8:00 AM.
+- **2025-03-18** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Health & Long-Term Care at 10:30 AM.
+- **2025-03-18** HLTC - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-19** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
+- **2025-03-21** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-26** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-26** Third reading, passed; yeas, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-31** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2025-03-31** President signed. `passage`
+- **2025-04-02** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-07** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-07** Chapter 20, 2025 Laws. `became-law`
+- **2025-04-07** Effective date 7/27/2025. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/30ddf559-5bd5-48a8-b3af-1c2d263d8c48`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
+