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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Modifying motor vehicle and driver licensing laws to align with federal definitions, making technical corrections, and streamlining requirements."
+description: "Modifying motor vehicle and driver licensing laws to align with federal definitions, making technical corrections, and streamlining requirements."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "HB 1439"
+citation: "Washington HB 1439 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bernbaum"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-21"
+last_action: "2025-04-07"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/328f9d42-ea42-48ab-8646-35efac53ffb9"
+source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=1439&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
+source_hash: "2ffcf0af0335948f44de1376cfee5839516164b3e67b78263751d3a848a6c710"
+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 1439 (2025-2026) — Modifying motor vehicle and driver licensing laws to align with federal definitions, making technical corrections, and streamlining requirements.
+
+## 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/1439.htm)
+2. **Engrossed Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1439-S.E.htm)
+3. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1439-S.htm)
+4. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1439-S.PL.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#30) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#25) — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bernbaum — primary (person)
+- Abell — cosponsor (person)
+- Donaghy — cosponsor (person)
+- Reed — cosponsor (person)
+- Tharinger — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-21** First reading, referred to Transportation. `reading-1`
+- **2025-01-30** Public hearing in the House Committee on Transportation at 4:00 PM.
+- **2025-02-06** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Transportation at 4:00 PM.
+- **2025-02-06** TR - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
+- **2025-02-12** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-28** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-04** 1st substitute bill substituted (TR 25). `substitution`
+- **2025-03-04** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
+- **2025-03-04** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-04** Third reading, passed; yeas, 95; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 3. `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-07** First reading, referred to Transportation. `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-17** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Transportation at 4:00 PM.
+- **2025-03-17** TRAN - 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 23, 2025 Laws. `became-law`
+- **2025-04-07** Effective date 10/1/2025*. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/328f9d42-ea42-48ab-8646-35efac53ffb9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
+