---
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).