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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Recognizing judicially affirmed and treaty-reserved fishing rights and promoting state-tribal cooperative agreements in the management of salmon, trout, and steelhead resources."
+description: "Recognizing judicially affirmed and treaty-reserved fishing rights and promoting state-tribal cooperative agreements in the management of salmon, trout, and steelhead resources."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "HB 2554"
+citation: "Washington HB 2554 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Lekanoff"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2026-01-19"
+last_action: "2026-03-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d6546bb9-0f94-42f6-98d6-cee480ba06bf"
+source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=2554&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
+source_hash: "2dbbdfb67e0b411800d1ebc2aeabf958f1852f918b561e6898ff589d05bb73d5"
+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 2554 (2025-2026) — Recognizing judicially affirmed and treaty-reserved fishing rights and promoting state-tribal cooperative agreements in the management of salmon, trout, and steelhead resources.
+
+## 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/2554.htm)
+2. **Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/2554.PL.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#1) — **64–28** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#12) — **47–2** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Lekanoff — primary (person)
+- Callan — cosponsor (person)
+- Cortes — cosponsor (person)
+- Doglio — cosponsor (person)
+- Fitzgibbon — cosponsor (person)
+- Nance — cosponsor (person)
+- Obras — cosponsor (person)
+- Parshley — cosponsor (person)
+- Pollet — cosponsor (person)
+- Ramel — cosponsor (person)
+- Reeves — cosponsor (person)
+- Ryu — cosponsor (person)
+- Santos — cosponsor (person)
+- Stearns — cosponsor (person)
+- Thomas — cosponsor (person)
+- Timmons — cosponsor (person)
+- Zahn — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-19** First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources. `reading-1`
+- **2026-01-27** Public hearing in the House Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources at 10:30 AM.
+- **2026-02-03** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources at 10:30 AM.
+- **2026-02-03** AGNR - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-02-03** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2026-02-04** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-11** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-13** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-13** Third reading, passed; yeas, 64; nays, 28; absent, 0; excused, 6. `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-17** 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`
+- **2026-02-24** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
+- **2026-02-27** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
+- **2026-03-03** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-03** Third reading, passed; yeas, 47; nays, 2; 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 16, 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/d6546bb9-0f94-42f6-98d6-cee480ba06bf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
+