---
type: "Bill"
title: "Providing students at community and technical colleges with the costs of required course materials."
description: "Providing students at community and technical colleges with the costs of required course materials."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "HB 1375"
citation: "Washington HB 1375 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Van Werven"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 38
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-18"
last_action: "2017-04-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ef2cda66-2ba9-4218-9502-ce437d22758c"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1375&year=2017"
source_hash: "7e43a1a140fdad4311cdf923afa9e585a5684359f2b5923661445534e87e098a"
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 1375 (2017-2018) — Providing students at community and technical colleges with the costs of required course materials.

## 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/2017-18/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1375.htm)
2. **Engrossed Second Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2017-18/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1375-S2.E.htm)
3. **Second Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2017-18/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1375-S2.htm)
4. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2017-18/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1375-S.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#16) — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- Final Passage (#16) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Van Werven — primary (person)
- Bergquist — cosponsor (person)
- Buys — cosponsor (person)
- Dent — cosponsor (person)
- Frame — cosponsor (person)
- Goodman — cosponsor (person)
- Griffey — cosponsor (person)
- Haler — cosponsor (person)
- Hargrove — cosponsor (person)
- Holy — cosponsor (person)
- Kagi — cosponsor (person)
- Kraft — cosponsor (person)
- Lovick — cosponsor (person)
- Mosbrucker — cosponsor (person)
- Muri — cosponsor (person)
- Orwall — cosponsor (person)
- Riccelli — cosponsor (person)
- Ryu — cosponsor (person)
- Tarleton — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-18** First reading, referred to Higher Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). `reading-1`
- **2017-02-14** HE - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `passage`
- **2017-02-16** Referred to Appropriations.
- **2017-02-24** APP - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `passage`
- **2017-02-24** Minority; without recommendation.
- **2017-02-24** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
- **2017-03-03** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading.
- **2017-03-08** 2nd substitute bill substituted. `substitution`
- **2017-02-14** HE - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `passage`
- **2017-02-16** Referred to Appropriations.
- **2017-02-24** APP - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `passage`
- **2017-02-24** Minority; without recommendation.
- **2017-02-24** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
- **2017-03-03** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading.
- **2017-03-08** 2nd substitute bill substituted. `substitution`
- **2017-02-24** APP - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `passage`
- **2017-02-24** Minority; without recommendation.
- **2017-02-24** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
- **2017-03-03** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading.
- **2017-03-08** 2nd substitute bill substituted. `substitution`
- **2017-03-08** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
- **2017-03-08** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2017-03-08** Third reading, passed; yeas, 97; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2017-03-10** First reading, referred to Higher Education. `reading-1`
- **2017-03-28** HIE - Majority; do pass.
- **2017-03-28** And refer to Ways & Means. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-29** Referred to Ways & Means.
- **2017-04-03** WM - Majority; do pass.
- **2017-04-04** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2017-04-05** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2017-04-06** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2017-04-06** Third reading, passed; yeas, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2017-04-10** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2017-04-11** President signed. `passage`
- **2017-04-17** Delivered to Governor.
- **2017-04-21** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2017-04-21** Chapter 98, 2017 Laws. `became-law`
- **2017-04-21** Effective date 7/23/2017. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ef2cda66-2ba9-4218-9502-ce437d22758c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).