---
type: "Bill"
title: "Adopting the cosmetology licensure compact."
description: "Adopting the cosmetology licensure compact."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "HB 1023"
citation: "Washington HB 1023 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ryu"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 34
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-12-09"
last_action: "2025-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/51659963-922a-46ae-bfe9-0240b6503c66"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=1023&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "40346174d418b08365292adfeff218fe7d419c7f3b79bcb0088c7fc9042a286e"
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 1023 (2025-2026) — Adopting the cosmetology licensure compact.

## 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/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1023.htm)
2. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1023-S.htm)
3. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1023-S.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#17) — **96–1** (pass) · lower
- Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#5) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- Final Passage on Reconsideration (#18) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#8) — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ryu — primary (person)
- Berg — cosponsor (person)
- Doglio — cosponsor (person)
- Donaghy — cosponsor (person)
- Eslick — cosponsor (person)
- Jacobsen — cosponsor (person)
- Leavitt — cosponsor (person)
- Reed — cosponsor (person)
- Reeves — cosponsor (person)
- Schmidt — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-09** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
- **2025-01-13** First reading, referred to Postsecondary Education & Workforce. `reading-1`
- **2025-01-15** Public hearing in the House Committee on Postsecondary Education & Workforce at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-01-21** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Postsecondary Education & Workforce at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-01-21** PEW - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-23** Referred to Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29** Public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 4:00 PM.
- **2025-02-05** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Appropriations at 4:00 PM.
- **2025-02-05** APP - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
- **2025-02-12** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-06** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2025-03-07** 1st substitute bill substituted (APP 25). `substitution`
- **2025-03-07** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-07** Third reading, passed; yeas, 96; nays, 1; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-07** Vote on third reading will be reconsidered.
- **2025-03-07** Third reading, passed; yeas, 97; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-11** First reading, referred to Labor & Commerce. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-24** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Labor & Commerce at 10:30 AM.
- **2025-04-01** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Labor & Commerce at 10:30 AM.
- **2025-04-01** LC - Majority; do pass with amendment(s). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-04-02** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2025-04-09** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2025-04-16** Committee amendment(s) adopted as amended.
- **2025-04-16** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-16** Third reading, passed; yeas, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-19** House concurred in Senate amendments.
- **2025-04-19** Passed final passage; yeas, 95; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 3. `passage`
- **2025-04-22** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-23** President signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-25** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-12** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-12** Chapter 238, 2025 Laws. `became-law`
- **2025-05-12** Effective date 6/1/2028. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/51659963-922a-46ae-bfe9-0240b6503c66`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).