---
type: "Bill"
title: "Promoting water safety education."
description: "Promoting water safety education."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "HB 1750"
citation: "Washington HB 1750 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Berg"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-03"
last_action: "2023-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4a8401bc-45ec-4196-9ae1-29e007b5a4e5"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1750&year=2023"
source_hash: "0c61e1770fbac95ed134399a338417bacdf8c18bd2767e0fa7031a8b3ebd32da"
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 1750 (2023-2024) — Promoting water safety education.

## 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/2023-24/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1750.htm)
2. **Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1750.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#50) — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#7) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Berg — primary (person)
- Abbarno — cosponsor (person)
- Alvarado — cosponsor (person)
- Berry — cosponsor (person)
- Callan — cosponsor (person)
- Chapman — cosponsor (person)
- Cortes — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Doglio — cosponsor (person)
- Donaghy — cosponsor (person)
- Duerr — cosponsor (person)
- Entenman — cosponsor (person)
- Fosse — cosponsor (person)
- Gregerson — cosponsor (person)
- Hackney — cosponsor (person)
- Kloba — cosponsor (person)
- Leavitt — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Ormsby — cosponsor (person)
- Orwall — cosponsor (person)
- Pollet — cosponsor (person)
- Ramel — cosponsor (person)
- Reed — cosponsor (person)
- Reeves — cosponsor (person)
- Rule — cosponsor (person)
- Ryu — cosponsor (person)
- Santos — cosponsor (person)
- Senn — cosponsor (person)
- Slatter — cosponsor (person)
- Stonier — cosponsor (person)
- Street — cosponsor (person)
- Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Thai — cosponsor (person)
- Tharinger — cosponsor (person)
- Timmons — cosponsor (person)
- Walen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-03** First reading, referred to State Government & Tribal Relations. `reading-1`
- **2023-02-14** Public hearing in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations at 1:30 PM.
- **2023-02-15** Executive action taken in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations at 1:30 PM.
- **2023-02-15** SGOV - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-17** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-28** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2023-03-08** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-03-08** Third reading, passed; yeas, 96; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 2. `reading-3`
- **2023-03-10** First reading, referred to State Government & Elections. `reading-1`
- **2023-03-24** Public hearing and executive action taken in the Senate Committee on State Government & Elections at 8:00 AM.
- **2023-03-24** SGE - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-27** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2023-04-11** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2023-04-12** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-12** Third reading, passed; yeas, 48; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-14** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2023-04-18** President signed. `passage`
- **2023-04-19** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-04-25** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2023-04-25** Chapter 181, 2023 Laws. `became-law`
- **2023-04-25** Effective date 7/23/2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4a8401bc-45ec-4196-9ae1-29e007b5a4e5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).