---
type: "Bill"
title: "Changing the home care agency vendor rate and repealing electronic timekeeping."
description: "Changing the home care agency vendor rate and repealing electronic timekeeping."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "HB 2380"
citation: "Washington HB 2380 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LONG-TERM CARE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tharinger"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 27
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-10"
last_action: "2020-04-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bed823d3-301c-42a1-9081-dd6edce3436e"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=2380&year=2019"
source_hash: "4d8a4e76471dd6ebba83dc3a33590af7b63c117455cdbd584b758768f4056bef"
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 2380 (2019-2020) — Changing the home care agency vendor rate and repealing electronic timekeeping.

## 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/2380.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#46) — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#3) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Tharinger — primary (person)
- Appleton — cosponsor (person)
- Cody — cosponsor (person)
- Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Kloba — cosponsor (person)
- Leavitt — cosponsor (person)
- Macri — cosponsor (person)
- Riccelli — cosponsor (person)
- Wylie — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-10** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
- **2020-01-13** First reading, referred to Appropriations. `reading-1`
- **2020-01-27** APP - Majority; do pass.
- **2020-01-30** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
- **2020-02-04** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2020-02-14** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2020-02-14** Third reading, passed; yeas, 98; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2020-02-18** First reading, referred to Health & Long Term Care. `reading-1`
- **2020-02-21** HLTC - Majority; without recommendation.
- **2020-02-21** And refer to Ways & Means. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-24** Referred to Ways & Means.
- **2020-02-29** WM - Majority; do pass.
- **2020-03-02** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2020-03-05** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2020-03-06** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2020-03-06** Third reading, passed; yeas, 48; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2020-03-09** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2020-03-10** President signed. `passage`
- **2020-03-11** Delivered to Governor.
- **2020-04-03** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2020-04-03** Chapter 336, 2020 Laws. `became-law`
- **2020-04-03** 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
- **2020-02-21T13:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Health & Long Term Care at 08:00 AM
- **2020-02-27T20:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 03:30 PM
- **2020-02-29T14:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 09:00 AM

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bed823d3-301c-42a1-9081-dd6edce3436e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).