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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Concerning the use of nursing titles."
+description: "Concerning the use of nursing titles."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "HB 2155"
+citation: "Washington HB 2155 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Obras"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-12-16"
+last_action: "2026-03-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/42a6190b-c9e9-443b-a45d-344527268f0f"
+source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=2155&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
+source_hash: "48eadfa8f1ec9133725ad3466243ab25c98ebf009517be9e5a464f2cc8cd4586"
+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 2155 (2025-2026) — Concerning the use of nursing titles.
+
+## 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/2155.htm)
+2. **Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/2155.PL.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#7) — **46–2** (pass) · upper
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#7) — **87–8** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Obras — primary (person)
+- Gregerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Kloba — cosponsor (person)
+- Low — cosponsor (person)
+- Macri — cosponsor (person)
+- Parshley — cosponsor (person)
+- Reed — cosponsor (person)
+- Salahuddin — cosponsor (person)
+- Santos — cosponsor (person)
+- Simmons — cosponsor (person)
+- Zahn — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-12-16** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
+- **2026-01-12** First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness. `reading-1`
+- **2026-01-20** Public hearing in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 1:30 PM.
+- **2026-01-30** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 8:00 AM.
+- **2026-01-30** HCW - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-01-30** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2026-02-03** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-06** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-11** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-11** Third reading, passed; yeas, 87; nays, 8; absent, 0; excused, 3. `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-13** First reading, referred to Health & Long-Term Care. `reading-1`
+- **2026-02-19** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Health & Long-Term Care at 8:00 AM.
+- **2026-02-19** HLTC - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-02-20** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
+- **2026-02-24** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-26** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-26** Third reading, passed; yeas, 46; nays, 2; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-28** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2026-02-28** President signed. `passage`
+- **2026-03-03** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-03-09** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2026-03-09** Chapter 6, 2026 Laws. `became-law`
+- **2026-03-09** 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/42a6190b-c9e9-443b-a45d-344527268f0f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
+