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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Improving access to career opportunities for students."
+description: "Improving access to career opportunities for students."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "HB 1414"
+citation: "Washington HB 1414 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Connors"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-20"
+last_action: "2025-04-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/81d21ed5-f778-488f-bb5e-736f0038a38a"
+source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=1414&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
+source_hash: "9d82f63500f6b4e6b26a93e596d6aa14a6b7fc67290b1a53c6e30bbc3786e1fa"
+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 1414 (2025-2026) — Improving access to career opportunities for students.
+
+## 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/1414.htm)
+2. **Engrossed Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1414-S.E.htm)
+3. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1414-S.htm)
+4. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1414-S.PL.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#13) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#10) — **48–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Connors — primary (person)
+- Couture — cosponsor (person)
+- Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- Keaton — cosponsor (person)
+- McClintock — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul — cosponsor (person)
+- Penner — cosponsor (person)
+- Rude — cosponsor (person)
+- Shavers — cosponsor (person)
+- Springer — cosponsor (person)
+- Tharinger — cosponsor (person)
+- Timmons — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-20** First reading, referred to Education. `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-11** Public hearing in the House Committee on Education at 4:00 PM.
+- **2025-02-18** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Education at 4:00 PM.
+- **2025-02-18** ED - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
+- **2025-02-21** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-10** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-12** 1st substitute bill substituted (ED 25). `substitution`
+- **2025-03-12** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
+- **2025-03-12** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-12** Third reading, passed; yeas, 97; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-14** First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education. `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-19** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education at 1:30 PM.
+- **2025-03-27** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education at 10:30 AM.
+- **2025-03-27** EDU - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-28** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
+- **2025-04-02** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-07** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-07** Third reading, passed; yeas, 48; nays, 1; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-09** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2025-04-10** President signed. `passage`
+- **2025-04-11** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-16** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-16** Chapter 61, 2025 Laws. `became-law`
+- **2025-04-16** 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/81d21ed5-f778-488f-bb5e-736f0038a38a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
+