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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Providing parental access to special education evaluation reports."
+description: "Providing parental access to special education evaluation reports."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "HB 2557"
+citation: "Washington HB 2557 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Chase"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2026-01-19"
+last_action: "2026-03-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f123bc88-2876-4e13-9ba6-cf47d1819f2e"
+source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=2557&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
+source_hash: "6bfceb69233b7234430b94b5e332984612e16c6b388435d9c4caeece02690a5d"
+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 2557 (2025-2026) — Providing parental access to special education evaluation reports.
+
+## 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/2557.htm)
+2. **Engrossed Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/2557-S.E.htm)
+3. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/2557-S.htm)
+4. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/2557-S.PL.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#14) — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#27) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Chase — primary (person)
+- Eslick — cosponsor (person)
+- Santos — cosponsor (person)
+- Schmidt — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-19** First reading, referred to Education. `reading-1`
+- **2026-01-27** Public hearing in the House Committee on Education at 4:00 PM.
+- **2026-02-02** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Education at 1:30 PM.
+- **2026-02-02** ED - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
+- **2026-02-04** Referred to Appropriations. `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-06** Public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 10:30 AM.
+- **2026-02-09** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Appropriations at 10:30 AM.
+- **2026-02-09** APP - Majority; do pass 1st substitute bill proposed by Education. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-02-09** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-11** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-12** 1st substitute bill substituted (ED 26). `substitution`
+- **2026-02-12** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
+- **2026-02-12** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-12** Third reading, passed; yeas, 95; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 3. `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-16** First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education. `reading-1`
+- **2026-02-18** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education at 10:30 AM.
+- **2026-02-25** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education at 10:30 AM.
+- **2026-02-25** EDU - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-02-25** 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, 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 34, 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/f123bc88-2876-4e13-9ba6-cf47d1819f2e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
+