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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Improving efficiency in appeals to the pollution control hearings board."
+description: "Improving efficiency in appeals to the pollution control hearings board."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "HB 2426"
+citation: "Washington HB 2426 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bernbaum"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2026-01-13"
+last_action: "2026-03-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d15dc967-fd76-4586-a034-68851efe36a9"
+source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=2426&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
+source_hash: "bcd32286b35158a4ce3872d150c37c66e358976ef361ee6468a948c69cf0a61e"
+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 2426 (2025-2026) — Improving efficiency in appeals to the pollution control hearings board.
+
+## 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/2426.htm)
+2. **Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/2426.PL.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#19) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#30) — **48–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bernbaum — primary (person)
+- McEntire — cosponsor (person)
+- Parshley — cosponsor (person)
+- Reed — cosponsor (person)
+- Scott — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-13** First reading, referred to Environment & Energy. `reading-1`
+- **2026-01-20** Public hearing in the House Committee on Environment & Energy at 4:00 PM.
+- **2026-01-29** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Environment & Energy at 8:00 AM.
+- **2026-01-29** ENVI - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-01-29** 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, 96; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 2. `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-13** First reading, referred to Environment, Energy & Technology. `reading-1`
+- **2026-02-18** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Environment, Energy & Technology at 8:00 AM.
+- **2026-02-20** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Environment, Energy & Technology at 10:30 AM.
+- **2026-02-20** ENET - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-02-23** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
+- **2026-03-05** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
+- **2026-03-06** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-06** Third reading, passed; yeas, 48; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-11** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2026-03-12** President signed. `passage`
+- **2026-03-12** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-03-18** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2026-03-18** Chapter 98, 2026 Laws. `became-law`
+- **2026-03-18** 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/d15dc967-fd76-4586-a034-68851efe36a9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
+