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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Aligning the quality assurance fee for the ambulance transport fund with federal regulations."
+description: "Aligning the quality assurance fee for the ambulance transport fund with federal regulations."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "HB 2531"
+citation: "Washington HB 2531 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Stuebe"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2026-01-16"
+last_action: "2026-03-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/546c9a0d-a86c-4fb2-a6e6-a80834251253"
+source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=2531&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
+source_hash: "9759bfef65cd1d0aac3025b61507f1062af88b6b46a7fe49ba3ee804b20c6d48"
+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 2531 (2025-2026) — Aligning the quality assurance fee for the ambulance transport fund with federal regulations.
+
+## 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/2531.htm)
+2. **Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/2531.PL.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#9) — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#14) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Stuebe — primary (person)
+- Hall — cosponsor (person)
+- Nance — cosponsor (person)
+- Parshley — cosponsor (person)
+- Ramel — cosponsor (person)
+- Ryu — cosponsor (person)
+- Stonier — cosponsor (person)
+- Thomas — cosponsor (person)
+- Ybarra — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-16** First reading, referred to Appropriations. `reading-1`
+- **2026-01-21** Public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 4:00 PM.
+- **2026-01-28** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Appropriations at 4:00 PM.
+- **2026-01-28** APP - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-01-30** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-06** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
+- **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 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.
+- **2026-02-27** Placed on second reading consent calendar. `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-28** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-28** Third reading, passed; yeas, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-04** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2026-03-04** President signed. `passage`
+- **2026-03-05** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-03-11** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2026-03-11** Chapter 31, 2026 Laws. `became-law`
+- **2026-03-11** 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/546c9a0d-a86c-4fb2-a6e6-a80834251253`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
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