---
type: "Bill"
title: "Ensuring completion of conditional scholarship obligations and reducing penalties for excusable incomplete obligations."
description: "Ensuring completion of conditional scholarship obligations and reducing penalties for excusable incomplete obligations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "HB 1763"
citation: "Washington HB 1763 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eslick"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-06"
last_action: "2023-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9357c5f7-1f2d-494d-83a2-956467122dda"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1763&year=2023"
source_hash: "1bffffc42763d102ad6af91311df04957acc2de1e52917a0ae042655285e130d"
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 1763 (2023-2024) — Ensuring completion of conditional scholarship obligations and reducing penalties for excusable incomplete obligations.

## 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/1763.htm)
2. **Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1763.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#18) — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#21) — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Eslick — primary (person)
- Callan — cosponsor (person)
- Leavitt — cosponsor (person)
- Pollet — cosponsor (person)
- Schmidt — cosponsor (person)
- Senn — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-06** First reading, referred to Postsecondary Education & Workforce. `reading-1`
- **2023-02-10** Public hearing in the House Committee on Postsecondary Education & Workforce at 8:00 AM.
- **2023-02-15** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Postsecondary Education & Workforce at 1:30 PM.
- **2023-02-15** PEW - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-15** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2023-02-17** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-02** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2023-03-06** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-03-06** Third reading, passed; yeas, 95; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 3. `reading-3`
- **2023-03-08** First reading, referred to Higher Education & Workforce Development. `reading-1`
- **2023-03-22** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Higher Education & Workforce Development at 8:00 AM.
- **2023-03-29** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Higher Education & Workforce Development at 8:00 AM.
- **2023-03-29** HEWD - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-29** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2023-04-04** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2023-04-08** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-08** Third reading, passed; yeas, 48; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-10** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2023-04-11** President signed. `passage`
- **2023-04-14** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-04-20** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2023-04-20** Chapter 159, 2023 Laws. `became-law`
- **2023-04-20** 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/9357c5f7-1f2d-494d-83a2-956467122dda`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).