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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Concerning statewide food security."
+description: "Concerning statewide food security."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "HB 2238"
+citation: "Washington HB 2238 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Reeves"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 32
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2026-01-02"
+last_action: "2026-03-17"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0146a81a-17bb-4eef-870f-7f115d848a1d"
+source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=2238&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
+source_hash: "8199c0cfe377b6a11a45ab0998c7d73dea64b4854c74cadc77fec3b1c2a9c9ce"
+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 2238 (2025-2026) — Concerning statewide food security.
+
+## 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/2238.htm)
+2. **Engrossed Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/2238-S.E.htm)
+3. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/2238-S.htm)
+4. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/2238-S.PL.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#20) — **45–3** (pass) · upper
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#6) — **83–12** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Reeves — primary (person)
+- Berg — cosponsor (person)
+- Bergquist — cosponsor (person)
+- Bernbaum — cosponsor (person)
+- Doglio — cosponsor (person)
+- Donaghy — cosponsor (person)
+- Farivar — cosponsor (person)
+- Fosse — cosponsor (person)
+- Goodman — cosponsor (person)
+- Gregerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
+- Obras — cosponsor (person)
+- Ormsby — cosponsor (person)
+- Parshley — cosponsor (person)
+- Peterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Pollet — cosponsor (person)
+- Ramel — cosponsor (person)
+- Santos — cosponsor (person)
+- Scott — cosponsor (person)
+- Simmons — cosponsor (person)
+- Stonier — cosponsor (person)
+- Thai — cosponsor (person)
+- Thomas — cosponsor (person)
+- Wylie — cosponsor (person)
+- Zahn — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-02** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
+- **2026-01-12** First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources. `reading-1`
+- **2026-01-14** Public hearing in the House Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources at 8:00 AM.
+- **2026-01-20** Executive session scheduled, but no action was taken in the House Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources at 10:30 AM.
+- **2026-01-21** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources at 8:00 AM.
+- **2026-01-21** AGNR - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
+- **2026-01-23** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-06** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-10** 1st substitute bill substituted (AGNR 26). `substitution`
+- **2026-02-10** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
+- **2026-02-10** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-10** Third reading, passed; yeas, 83; nays, 12; absent, 0; excused, 3. `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-12** First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources. `reading-1`
+- **2026-02-19** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources at 1:30 PM.
+- **2026-02-23** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources at 1:30 PM.
+- **2026-02-23** ANR - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-02-23** And refer to Ways & Means. `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-24** Referred to Ways & Means. `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-27** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 2:30 PM.
+- **2026-03-02** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 10:30 AM.
+- **2026-03-02** WM - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-02** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2026-03-02** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
+- **2026-03-03** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
+- **2026-03-05** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-05** Third reading, passed; yeas, 45; nays, 3; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-06** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2026-03-09** President signed. `passage`
+- **2026-03-10** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-03-17** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2026-03-17** Chapter 83, 2026 Laws. `became-law`
+- **2026-03-17** 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/0146a81a-17bb-4eef-870f-7f115d848a1d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
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