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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Establishing the heritage orchard program."
+description: "Establishing the heritage orchard program."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "HB 2525"
+citation: "Washington HB 2525 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Mendoza"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2026-01-16"
+last_action: "2026-03-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0d8cd64c-e9cb-44de-abd7-133caa8db2a1"
+source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=2525&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
+source_hash: "b156cd8f6fc373b5704c666e71e5cd309ee1ef18421bf0bdcec57b1461619991"
+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 2525 (2025-2026) — Establishing the heritage orchard 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/2525.htm)
+2. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/2525-S.htm)
+3. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/2525-S.PL.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#14) — **47–1** (pass) · upper
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#4) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Mendoza — primary (person)
+- Barnard — cosponsor (person)
+- Bernbaum — cosponsor (person)
+- Chase — cosponsor (person)
+- Corry — cosponsor (person)
+- Dufault — cosponsor (person)
+- Eslick — cosponsor (person)
+- Leavitt — cosponsor (person)
+- Ley — cosponsor (person)
+- Macri — cosponsor (person)
+- Manjarrez — cosponsor (person)
+- Nance — cosponsor (person)
+- Parshley — cosponsor (person)
+- Springer — cosponsor (person)
+- Ybarra — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-16** First reading, referred to Postsecondary Education & Workforce. `reading-1`
+- **2026-01-27** Public hearing in the House Committee on Postsecondary Education & Workforce at 1:30 PM.
+- **2026-02-03** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Postsecondary Education & Workforce at 1:30 PM.
+- **2026-02-03** PEW - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
+- **2026-02-04** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-10** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-12** 1st substitute bill substituted (PEW 26). `substitution`
+- **2026-02-12** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-12** Third reading, passed; yeas, 94; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 4. `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-16** First reading, referred to Higher Education & Workforce Development. `reading-1`
+- **2026-02-19** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Higher Education & Workforce Development at 1:30 PM.
+- **2026-02-23** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Higher Education & Workforce Development at 10:30 AM.
+- **2026-02-23** HEWD - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-02-24** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
+- **2026-02-27** Placed on second reading consent calendar. `reading-2`
+- **2026-03-05** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-05** Third reading, passed; yeas, 47; nays, 1; 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`
+- **2026-03-20** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2026-03-20** Chapter 119, 2026 Laws. `became-law`
+- **2026-03-20** 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/0d8cd64c-e9cb-44de-abd7-133caa8db2a1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
+