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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Establishing a tax on certain business activities related to surpluses generated under the zero-emission vehicle program."
+description: "Establishing a tax on certain business activities related to surpluses generated under the zero-emission vehicle program."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "HB 2077"
+citation: "Washington HB 2077 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Fitzgibbon"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-04-14"
+last_action: "2025-05-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16c5599a-070e-41e2-b18e-4c8a7c3afdc2"
+source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=2077&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
+source_hash: "05175ffa80c8e60ffc1a6b4a0a630c8c6489d2e72fd56f253974464356062eed"
+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 2077 (2025-2026) — Establishing a tax on certain business activities related to surpluses generated under the zero-emission vehicle 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/2077.htm)
+2. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/2077-S.htm)
+3. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/2077-S.PL.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#7) — **52–45** (pass) · lower
+- Motion to Place Measure on 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#6) — **55–42** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#29) — **28–19** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Fitzgibbon — primary (person)
+- Macri — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-04-14** First reading, referred to Finance. `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-18** Public hearing 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** Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-22** 1st substitute bill substituted (FIN 25). `substitution`
+- **2025-04-22** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-22** Third reading, passed; yeas, 52; nays, 45; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-22** First reading, referred to Ways & Means. `reading-1`
+- **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, 19; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-27** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2025-04-27** President signed. `passage`
+- **2025-04-27** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-20** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2025-05-20** Chapter 419, 2025 Laws. `became-law`
+- **2025-05-20** Effective date 5/20/2025. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/16c5599a-070e-41e2-b18e-4c8a7c3afdc2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
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