---
type: "Bill"
title: "Concerning public hospital district health and wellness promotion activities and superintendent appointment and removal."
description: "Concerning public hospital district health and wellness promotion activities and superintendent appointment and removal."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "HB 2539"
citation: "Washington HB 2539 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HOSPITALS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Peterson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-10"
last_action: "2018-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/711f024d-5a18-4684-a7ee-5ea880a9c86f"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=2539&year=2017"
source_hash: "06e599b932582a02efc66ffcb883d02e712571e86ee4399461c301385814165e"
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 2539 (2017-2018) — Concerning public hospital district health and wellness promotion activities and superintendent appointment and removal.

## 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/2539.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#27) — **46–2** (pass) · upper
- Final Passage (#50) — **58–39** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Peterson — primary (person)
- Griffey — cosponsor (person)
- Kloba — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-10** First reading, referred to Local Government (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). `reading-1`
- **2018-01-23** LG - Majority; do pass.
- **2018-01-23** Minority; do not pass.
- **2018-01-25** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
- **2018-02-08** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2018-02-12** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2018-02-12** Third reading, passed; yeas, 58; nays, 39; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2018-02-14** First reading, referred to Local Government. `reading-1`
- **2018-02-20** LGOV - Majority; do pass.
- **2018-02-21** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2018-02-28** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2018-02-28** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2018-02-28** Third reading, passed; yeas, 46; nays, 2; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2018-03-03** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2018-03-05** President signed. `passage`
- **2018-03-06** Delivered to Governor.
- **2018-03-21** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-21** Chapter 134, 2018 Laws. `became-law`
- **2018-03-21** Effective date 6/7/2018. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/711f024d-5a18-4684-a7ee-5ea880a9c86f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).