---
type: "Bill"
title: "Creating the medicaid access program."
description: "Creating the medicaid access program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "HB 1392"
citation: "Washington HB 1392 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Macri"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 29
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-20"
last_action: "2025-05-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4b967d30-546f-4d88-a5af-8e7362b82217"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=1392&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "6868098770e37cd8d0900f036e28a4b252d219c9636a2e9a041d03966fda02dd"
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 1392 (2025-2026) — Creating the medicaid access program.

## 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/1392.htm)
2. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1392-S.htm)
3. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1392-S.PL.htm)

## Votes

- Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#13) — **57–38** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#7) — **31–18** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#2) — **56–39** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Macri — primary (person)
- Alvarado — cosponsor (person)
- Bernbaum — cosponsor (person)
- Berry — cosponsor (person)
- Callan — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Doglio — cosponsor (person)
- Fey — cosponsor (person)
- Fosse — cosponsor (person)
- Leavitt — cosponsor (person)
- Peterson — cosponsor (person)
- Pollet — cosponsor (person)
- Ramel — cosponsor (person)
- Reed — cosponsor (person)
- Rule — cosponsor (person)
- Ryu — cosponsor (person)
- Salahuddin — cosponsor (person)
- Santos — cosponsor (person)
- Scott — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons — cosponsor (person)
- Stearns — cosponsor (person)
- Street — cosponsor (person)
- Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tharinger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-20** First reading, referred to Appropriations. `reading-1`
- **2025-02-13** Public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 4:00 PM.
- **2025-02-27** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Appropriations at 9:00 AM.
- **2025-02-27** APP - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
- **2025-02-27** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-02-28** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2025-03-20** 1st substitute bill substituted (APP 25). `substitution`
- **2025-03-20** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-20** Third reading, passed; yeas, 56; nays, 39; absent, 0; excused, 3. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-24** First reading, referred to Ways & Means. `reading-1`
- **2025-04-03** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-04-07** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-04-07** WM - Majority; do pass with amendment(s). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-04-07** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-04-08** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2025-04-09** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2025-04-14** Committee amendment(s) adopted as amended.
- **2025-04-14** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-14** Third reading, passed; yeas, 31; nays, 18; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-19** House concurred in Senate amendments.
- **2025-04-19** Passed final passage; yeas, 57; nays, 38; absent, 0; excused, 3. `passage`
- **2025-04-22** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-23** President signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-23** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-19** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-19** Chapter 359, 2025 Laws. `became-law`
- **2025-05-19** Effective date 5/19/2025*. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4b967d30-546f-4d88-a5af-8e7362b82217`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).