---
type: "Bill"
title: "Expanding tuition waivers for high school completers at community and technical colleges."
description: "Expanding tuition waivers for high school completers at community and technical colleges."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "HB 1556"
citation: "Washington HB 1556 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Entenman"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-23"
last_action: "2025-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e4e402de-cc5e-4331-a91f-51969728fce2"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=1556&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "92ba72c82734a2486b8e93f791c1bb3fae588af81d32f9d5273c886e3107960d"
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 1556 (2025-2026) — Expanding tuition waivers for high school completers at community and technical colleges.

## 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/1556.htm)
2. **Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1556.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#16) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#11) — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Entenman — primary (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Kloba — cosponsor (person)
- Leavitt — cosponsor (person)
- Ortiz-Self — cosponsor (person)
- Pollet — cosponsor (person)
- Reed — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-23** First reading, referred to Postsecondary Education & Workforce. `reading-1`
- **2025-02-04** Public hearing in the House Committee on Postsecondary Education & Workforce at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-02-11** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Postsecondary Education & Workforce at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-02-11** PEW - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-13** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2025-03-05** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-05** Third reading, passed; yeas, 97; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-07** First reading, referred to Higher Education & Workforce Development. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-13** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Higher Education & Workforce Development at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-03-13** HEWD - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2025-03-26** Placed on second reading consent calendar. `reading-2`
- **2025-04-02** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-02** Third reading, passed; yeas, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-04** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-07** President signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-08** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-11** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-11** Chapter 42, 2025 Laws. `became-law`
- **2025-04-11** Effective date 7/27/2025. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e4e402de-cc5e-4331-a91f-51969728fce2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).