---
type: "Bill"
title: "Establishing the heritage orchard program."
description: "Establishing the heritage orchard program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "HB 2525"
citation: "Washington HB 2525 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mendoza"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-01-16"
last_action: "2026-03-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0d8cd64c-e9cb-44de-abd7-133caa8db2a1"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=2525&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "b156cd8f6fc373b5704c666e71e5cd309ee1ef18421bf0bdcec57b1461619991"
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 2525 (2025-2026) — Establishing the heritage orchard 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/2525.htm)
2. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/2525-S.htm)
3. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/2525-S.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#14) — **47–1** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#4) — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mendoza — primary (person)
- Barnard — cosponsor (person)
- Bernbaum — cosponsor (person)
- Chase — cosponsor (person)
- Corry — cosponsor (person)
- Dufault — cosponsor (person)
- Eslick — cosponsor (person)
- Leavitt — cosponsor (person)
- Ley — cosponsor (person)
- Macri — cosponsor (person)
- Manjarrez — cosponsor (person)
- Nance — cosponsor (person)
- Parshley — cosponsor (person)
- Springer — cosponsor (person)
- Ybarra — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-16** First reading, referred to Postsecondary Education & Workforce. `reading-1`
- **2026-01-27** Public hearing in the House Committee on Postsecondary Education & Workforce at 1:30 PM.
- **2026-02-03** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Postsecondary Education & Workforce at 1:30 PM.
- **2026-02-03** PEW - 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`
- **2026-02-12** 1st substitute bill substituted (PEW 26). `substitution`
- **2026-02-12** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2026-02-12** Third reading, passed; yeas, 94; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 4. `reading-3`
- **2026-02-16** First reading, referred to Higher Education & Workforce Development. `reading-1`
- **2026-02-19** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Higher Education & Workforce Development at 1:30 PM.
- **2026-02-23** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Higher Education & Workforce Development at 10:30 AM.
- **2026-02-23** HEWD - 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`
- **2026-03-05** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2026-03-05** Third reading, passed; yeas, 47; nays, 1; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2026-03-06** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2026-03-09** President signed. `passage`
- **2026-03-10** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-20** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-20** Chapter 119, 2026 Laws. `became-law`
- **2026-03-20** 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/0d8cd64c-e9cb-44de-abd7-133caa8db2a1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).