---
type: "Bill"
title: "Including specified competency restoration workers at department of social and health services institutional and residential sites in the public safety employees retirement system."
description: "Including specified competency restoration workers at department of social and health services institutional and residential sites in the public safety employees retirement system."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "HB 2189"
citation: "Washington HB 2189 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["SOCIAL AND HEALTH SERVICES", "DEPARTMENT", "RETIREMENT AND PENSIONS", "CRIMINAL OFFENDERS", "MENTAL HEALTH"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Leavitt"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-12-03"
last_action: "2020-03-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d822e05d-4f2c-435e-9fa0-51a5104dc4e6"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=2189&year=2019"
source_hash: "453c29a17cdd11364d651ec98b97a1790653ea2412c37986bab39995b4063d46"
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 2189 (2019-2020) — Including specified competency restoration workers at department of social and health services institutional and residential sites in the public safety employees retirement system.

## 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/2019-20/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/2189.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#24) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#57) — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Leavitt — primary (person)
- Callan — cosponsor (person)
- Corry — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Doglio — cosponsor (person)
- Fitzgibbon — cosponsor (person)
- Griffey — cosponsor (person)
- Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Irwin — cosponsor (person)
- Kilduff — cosponsor (person)
- MacEwen — cosponsor (person)
- Ormsby — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Ryu — cosponsor (person)
- Sells — cosponsor (person)
- Slatter — cosponsor (person)
- Tharinger — cosponsor (person)
- Wylie — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-12-03** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
- **2020-01-13** First reading, referred to Appropriations. `reading-1`
- **2020-01-27** APP - Majority; do pass.
- **2020-01-29** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
- **2020-02-04** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2020-02-12** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2020-02-12** Third reading, passed; yeas, 97; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2020-02-14** First reading, referred to Ways & Means. `reading-1`
- **2020-02-28** WM - Majority; do pass.
- **2020-03-02** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2020-03-10** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2020-03-10** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2020-03-10** Third reading, passed; yeas, 46; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 3. `reading-3`
- **2020-03-11** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2020-03-12** President signed. `passage`
- **2020-03-12** Delivered to Governor.
- **2020-03-25** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-25** Chapter 108, 2020 Laws. `became-law`
- **2020-03-25** Effective date 6/11/2020. `became-law`
- **2020-01-20T20:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 03:30 PM
- **2020-01-27T20:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 03:30 PM
- **2020-02-28T20:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 03:30 PM
- **2020-02-26T20:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 03:30 PM

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d822e05d-4f2c-435e-9fa0-51a5104dc4e6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).