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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Expanding tuition waivers for high school completers at community and technical colleges."
+description: "Expanding tuition waivers for high school completers at community and technical colleges."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "HB 1556"
+citation: "Washington HB 1556 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Entenman"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-23"
+last_action: "2025-04-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e4e402de-cc5e-4331-a91f-51969728fce2"
+source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=1556&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
+source_hash: "92ba72c82734a2486b8e93f791c1bb3fae588af81d32f9d5273c886e3107960d"
+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 1556 (2025-2026) — Expanding tuition waivers for high school completers at 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/1556.htm)
+2. **Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1556.PL.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#16) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#11) — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Entenman — primary (person)
+- Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Kloba — cosponsor (person)
+- Leavitt — cosponsor (person)
+- Ortiz-Self — cosponsor (person)
+- Pollet — cosponsor (person)
+- Reed — cosponsor (person)
+- Simmons — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-23** First reading, referred to Postsecondary Education & Workforce. `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-04** Public hearing in the House Committee on Postsecondary Education & Workforce at 1:30 PM.
+- **2025-02-11** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Postsecondary Education & Workforce at 1:30 PM.
+- **2025-02-11** PEW - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-13** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-04** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-05** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-05** Third reading, passed; yeas, 97; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-07** First reading, referred to Higher Education & Workforce Development. `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-13** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Higher Education & Workforce Development at 1:30 PM.
+- **2025-03-13** HEWD - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-14** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
+- **2025-03-26** Placed on second reading consent calendar. `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-02** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-02** Third reading, passed; yeas, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-04** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2025-04-07** President signed. `passage`
+- **2025-04-08** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-11** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-11** Chapter 42, 2025 Laws. `became-law`
+- **2025-04-11** 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/e4e402de-cc5e-4331-a91f-51969728fce2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
+