---
type: "Bill"
title: "Reducing impacts from derelict vessels."
description: "Reducing impacts from derelict vessels."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "HB 2199"
citation: "Washington HB 2199 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Richards"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-12-26"
last_action: "2026-03-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/46c8c3d1-3adb-4c77-8bd4-56afda5b4f23"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=2199&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "4ee16e936f89558211025d2743f42244099f9f8c29168a4d98a767ca1d6b689b"
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 2199 (2025-2026) — Reducing impacts from derelict vessels.

## 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/2199.htm)
2. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/2199-S.htm)
3. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/2199-S.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#6) — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#16) — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Richards — primary (person)
- Bernbaum — cosponsor (person)
- Bronoske — cosponsor (person)
- Leavitt — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Nance — cosponsor (person)
- Parshley — cosponsor (person)
- Ramel — cosponsor (person)
- Reed — cosponsor (person)
- Ryu — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons — cosponsor (person)
- Zahn — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-12-26** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
- **2026-01-12** First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources. `reading-1`
- **2026-01-27** Public hearing in the House Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources at 10:30 AM.
- **2026-02-04** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources at 8:00 AM.
- **2026-02-04** AGNR - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
- **2026-02-04** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-10** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2026-02-11** 1st substitute bill substituted (AGNR 26). `substitution`
- **2026-02-11** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2026-02-11** Third reading, passed; yeas, 95; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 3. `reading-3`
- **2026-02-13** First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources. `reading-1`
- **2026-02-19** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources at 1:30 PM.
- **2026-02-23** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources at 1:30 PM.
- **2026-02-23** ANR - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-24** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2026-02-27** Placed on second reading consent calendar. `reading-2`
- **2026-02-28** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2026-02-28** Third reading, passed; yeas, 48; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2026-02-28** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2026-02-28** President signed. `passage`
- **2026-03-03** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-09** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-09** Chapter 8, 2026 Laws. `became-law`
- **2026-03-09** Effective date 6/11/2026. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/46c8c3d1-3adb-4c77-8bd4-56afda5b4f23`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).