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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Eliminating the Washington employee ownership program."
+description: "Eliminating the Washington employee ownership program."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "HB 2047"
+citation: "Washington HB 2047 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Richards"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 30
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-03-24"
+last_action: "2025-05-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f90bd0e2-acf1-40af-86df-6825c0e5d78b"
+source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=2047&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
+source_hash: "5433b7d35ee864d2d527bed9ef7e12ecf67c67a7c8cc2c25e906cafc73c16ee8"
+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 2047 (2025-2026) — Eliminating the Washington employee ownership program.
+
+## 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/2047.htm)
+2. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/2047-S.htm)
+3. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/2047-S.PL.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#7) — **25–23** (pass) · upper
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#11) — **57–39** (pass) · lower
+- Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#5) — **58–40** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Richards — primary (person)
+- Gregerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Macri — cosponsor (person)
+- Parshley — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-03-24** First reading, referred to Appropriations. `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-03** Public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 1:30 PM.
+- **2025-04-05** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Appropriations at 9:00 AM.
+- **2025-04-05** APP - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
+- **2025-04-05** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2025-04-05** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2025-04-08** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-16** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-17** 1st substitute bill substituted (APP 25). `substitution`
+- **2025-04-17** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-17** Third reading, passed; yeas, 57; nays, 39; absent, 0; excused, 2. `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-19** First reading, referred to Ways & Means. `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-23** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 1:30 PM.
+- **2025-04-25** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 1:30 PM.
+- **2025-04-25** WM - Majority; do pass with amendment(s). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-25** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2025-04-25** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2025-04-25** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
+- **2025-04-25** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-26** Committee amendment(s) adopted with no other amendments.
+- **2025-04-26** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-26** Third reading, passed; yeas, 25; nays, 23; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-26** House concurred in Senate amendments.
+- **2025-04-26** Passed final passage; yeas, 58; nays, 40; absent, 0; excused, 0. `passage`
+- **2025-04-27** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2025-04-27** President signed. `passage`
+- **2025-04-27** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-19** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2025-05-19** Chapter 366, 2025 Laws. `became-law`
+- **2025-05-19** 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/f90bd0e2-acf1-40af-86df-6825c0e5d78b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
+