---
type: "Bill"
title: "Promoting educational stability for children of military families."
description: "Promoting educational stability for children of military families."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "HB 2534"
citation: "Washington HB 2534 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Shavers"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-01-19"
last_action: "2026-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d380ae45-f50d-49d0-b30c-3504be935a77"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=2534&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "db48ed77ddc1c53c4d6e135d257e395bebb57bdffaa5750131fa62501889915d"
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 2534 (2025-2026) — Promoting educational stability for children of military families.

## 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/2534.htm)
2. **Engrossed Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/2534-S.E.htm)
3. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/2534-S.htm)
4. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/2534-S.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#17) — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#19) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Shavers — primary (person)
- Barnard — cosponsor (person)
- Leavitt — cosponsor (person)
- McEntire — cosponsor (person)
- Nance — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-19** First reading, referred to Education. `reading-1`
- **2026-01-27** Public hearing in the House Committee on Education at 4:00 PM.
- **2026-02-02** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Education at 1:30 PM.
- **2026-02-02** ED - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
- **2026-02-04** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-11** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2026-02-12** 1st substitute bill substituted (ED 26). `substitution`
- **2026-02-12** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
- **2026-02-12** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2026-02-12** Third reading, passed; yeas, 96; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 2. `reading-3`
- **2026-02-16** First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education. `reading-1`
- **2026-02-18** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education at 10:30 AM.
- **2026-02-18** EDU - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-19** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2026-02-24** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `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`
- **2026-03-04** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2026-03-04** President signed. `passage`
- **2026-03-05** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-11** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-11** Chapter 32, 2026 Laws. `became-law`
- **2026-03-11** 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/d380ae45-f50d-49d0-b30c-3504be935a77`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).