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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Establishing the court unification task force."
+description: "Establishing the court unification task force."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "HB 1909"
+citation: "Washington HB 1909 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Taylor"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 36
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-02-10"
+last_action: "2026-03-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/24d617bf-f3a0-4fc0-ab2c-2281b323839f"
+source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=1909&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
+source_hash: "ce154377c686d76b9efae580a9a4068587576da854a4dd185bdf35b4c988ebf1"
+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 1909 (2025-2026) — Establishing the court unification task force.
+
+## 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/1909.htm)
+2. **Second Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1909-S2.htm)
+3. **Second Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1909-S2.PL.htm)
+4. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1909-S.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#27) — **30–18** (pass) · upper
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#8) — **56–36** (pass) · lower
+- Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#7) — **57–38** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Taylor — primary (person)
+- Berg — cosponsor (person)
+- Bernbaum — cosponsor (person)
+- Berry — cosponsor (person)
+- Cortes — cosponsor (person)
+- Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- Duerr — cosponsor (person)
+- Entenman — cosponsor (person)
+- Farivar — cosponsor (person)
+- Fey — cosponsor (person)
+- Goodman — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Macri — cosponsor (person)
+- Ormsby — cosponsor (person)
+- Ortiz-Self — cosponsor (person)
+- Parshley — cosponsor (person)
+- Peterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Pollet — cosponsor (person)
+- Ramel — cosponsor (person)
+- Reed — cosponsor (person)
+- Richards — cosponsor (person)
+- Ryu — cosponsor (person)
+- Salahuddin — cosponsor (person)
+- Santos — cosponsor (person)
+- Simmons — cosponsor (person)
+- Tharinger — cosponsor (person)
+- Thomas — cosponsor (person)
+- Walen — cosponsor (person)
+- Wylie — cosponsor (person)
+- Zahn — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-10** First reading, referred to Civil Rights & Judiciary. `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-12** Public hearing in the House Committee on Civil Rights & Judiciary at 8:00 AM.
+- **2025-02-18** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Civil Rights & Judiciary at 10:30 AM.
+- **2025-02-18** CRJ - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
+- **2025-02-18** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2025-02-20** Referred to Appropriations. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-26** Public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 1:30 PM.
+- **2026-01-12** By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
+- **2026-02-07** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Appropriations at 9:00 AM.
+- **2026-02-07** APP - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
+- **2026-02-07** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2026-02-07** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2026-02-09** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-14** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-16** 2nd substitute bill substituted (APP 26). `substitution`
+- **2026-02-16** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-16** Third reading, passed; yeas, 56; nays, 36; absent, 0; excused, 6. `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-18** First reading, referred to Law & Justice. `reading-1`
+- **2026-02-23** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Law & Justice at 10:30 AM.
+- **2026-02-24** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Law & Justice at 8:00 AM.
+- **2026-02-24** LAW - Majority; do pass with amendment(s). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-02-24** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2026-02-24** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2026-02-24** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
+- **2026-03-05** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
+- **2026-03-06** Committee amendment(s) adopted as amended.
+- **2026-03-06** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-06** Third reading, passed; yeas, 30; nays, 18; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-11** House concurred in Senate amendments.
+- **2026-03-11** Passed final passage; yeas, 57; nays, 38; absent, 0; excused, 3. `passage`
+- **2026-03-11** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2026-03-11** President signed. `passage`
+- **2026-03-12** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-03-24** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2026-03-24** Chapter 199, 2026 Laws. `became-law`
+- **2026-03-24** Effective date 6/11/2026. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/24d617bf-f3a0-4fc0-ab2c-2281b323839f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
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