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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Adding a student member to the state board for community and technical colleges."
+description: "Adding a student member to the state board for community and technical colleges."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "HB 1486"
+citation: "Washington HB 1486 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Salahuddin"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 25
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-21"
+last_action: "2025-04-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a85745bf-7204-476c-ad43-dd22938a0c44"
+source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=1486&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
+source_hash: "f4f075f1a839b8a6ece43a4641cbd83ad345068c51dc07336138b6f4c4f52b9f"
+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 1486 (2025-2026) — Adding a student member to the state board for community and technical colleges.
+
+## 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/1486.htm)
+2. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1486-S.htm)
+3. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1486-S.PL.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#16) — **39–10** (pass) · upper
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#34) — **75–20** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Salahuddin — primary (person)
+- Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- Doglio — cosponsor (person)
+- Goodman — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Nance — cosponsor (person)
+- Peterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Pollet — cosponsor (person)
+- Ramel — cosponsor (person)
+- Reed — cosponsor (person)
+- Scott — cosponsor (person)
+- Simmons — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-21** First reading, referred to Postsecondary Education & Workforce. `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-12** Public hearing in the House Committee on Postsecondary Education & Workforce at 1:30 PM.
+- **2025-02-19** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Postsecondary Education & Workforce at 1:30 PM.
+- **2025-02-19** PEW - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
+- **2025-02-19** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **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`
+- **2025-03-11** 1st substitute bill substituted (PEW 25). `substitution`
+- **2025-03-11** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-11** Third reading, passed; yeas, 75; nays, 20; absent, 0; excused, 3. `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-13** First reading, referred to Higher Education & Workforce Development. `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-20** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Higher Education & Workforce Development at 1:30 PM.
+- **2025-03-24** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Higher Education & Workforce Development at 10:30 AM.
+- **2025-03-24** HEWD - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-24** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2025-03-26** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
+- **2025-04-07** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-09** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-09** Third reading, passed; yeas, 39; nays, 10; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-11** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2025-04-14** President signed. `passage`
+- **2025-04-15** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-21** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-21** Chapter 91, 2025 Laws. `became-law`
+- **2025-04-21** 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/a85745bf-7204-476c-ad43-dd22938a0c44`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
+