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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Investing in the state's paramount duty to fund K-12 education and build strong and safe communities."
+description: "Investing in the state's paramount duty to fund K-12 education and build strong and safe communities."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "HB 2049"
+citation: "Washington HB 2049 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bergquist"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 10
+first_action: "2025-03-24"
+last_action: "2025-05-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e51ad1e7-ecc7-4064-b75b-54f45bcc4a9f"
+source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=2049&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
+source_hash: "bc68c369edf9a64c142529db40f7ca41b2903d551be12ddf0386c8d667f65312"
+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 2049 (2025-2026) — Investing in the state's paramount duty to fund K-12 education and build strong and safe communities.
+
+## 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/2049.htm)
+2. **Engrossed Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/2049-S.E.htm)
+3. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/2049-S.htm)
+4. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/2049-S.PL.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 1362 Caldier Pg 6 Ln 29 (#29) — **46–52** (fail) · lower
+- 1357 Couture Pg 10 Ln 7 (#30) — **44–54** (fail) · lower
+- 1354 Couture Pg 1 Ln 27 (#27) — **45–53** (fail) · lower
+- 1355 Abell Pg 1 Ln 5 (#24) — **45–53** (fail) · lower
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#3) — **28–20** (pass) · upper
+- 475 Fortunato Pg 4 Ln 15 (#2) — **19–29** (fail) · upper
+- 1352 Rude Pg 1 Ln 27 (#26) — **44–54** (fail) · lower
+- 1363 Penner Pg 1 Ln 6 (#28) — **43–55** (fail) · lower
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#5) — **50–48** (pass) · lower
+- 1356 Keaton Pg 1 Ln 5 (#25) — **43–55** (fail) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bergquist — primary (person)
+- Berry — cosponsor (person)
+- Callan — cosponsor (person)
+- Doglio — cosponsor (person)
+- Farivar — cosponsor (person)
+- Fosse — cosponsor (person)
+- Gregerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Macri — cosponsor (person)
+- Ormsby — cosponsor (person)
+- Parshley — cosponsor (person)
+- Peterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Pollet — cosponsor (person)
+- Ramel — cosponsor (person)
+- Reed — cosponsor (person)
+- Reeves — cosponsor (person)
+- Ryu — cosponsor (person)
+- Santos — cosponsor (person)
+- Street — cosponsor (person)
+- Wylie — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-03-24** First reading, referred to Finance. `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-03** Public hearing in the House Committee on Finance at 8:00 AM.
+- **2025-04-18** Executive session scheduled, but no action was taken in the House Committee on Finance at 8:00 AM.
+- **2025-04-19** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Finance at 9:00 AM.
+- **2025-04-19** FIN - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
+- **2025-04-19** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2025-04-19** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2025-04-19** Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-21** 1st substitute bill substituted (FIN 25). `substitution`
+- **2025-04-21** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
+- **2025-04-21** Held on calendar.
+- **2025-04-21** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
+- **2025-04-22** Third reading, passed; yeas, 50; nays, 48; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-22** 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. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-25** Minority; do not pass. `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** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-26** Third reading, passed; yeas, 28; nays, 20; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-26** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2025-04-26** President signed. `passage`
+- **2025-04-27** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-20** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2025-05-20** Chapter 404, 2025 Laws. `became-law`
+- **2025-05-20** 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/e51ad1e7-ecc7-4064-b75b-54f45bcc4a9f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
+