---
type: "Bill"
title: "Creating the veterans service officer program."
description: "Creating the veterans service officer program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "HB 1448"
citation: "Washington HB 1448 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["VETERANS", "PUBLIC FUNDS AND ACCOUNTS", "VETERANS AFFAIRS", "DEPARTMENT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maycumber"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 46
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-22"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/00bffeb7-d721-4be0-a60f-ba148c97d722"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1448&year=2019"
source_hash: "e73786fcc4c4c06e162ed7f887ae27af2db0be4fb87971b3d26056b3157d6f9e"
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 1448 (2019-2020) — Creating the veterans service officer 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/2019-20/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1448.htm)
2. **Second Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2019-20/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1448-S2.htm)
3. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2019-20/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1448-S.htm)

## Votes

- Final Passage (#20) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#49) — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Maycumber — primary (person)
- Barkis — cosponsor (person)
- Boehnke — cosponsor (person)
- Chambers — cosponsor (person)
- Chapman — cosponsor (person)
- Cody — cosponsor (person)
- Corry — cosponsor (person)
- DeBolt — cosponsor (person)
- Dye — cosponsor (person)
- Eslick — cosponsor (person)
- Gildon — cosponsor (person)
- Irwin — cosponsor (person)
- Jenkin — cosponsor (person)
- Jinkins — cosponsor (person)
- Kilduff — cosponsor (person)
- Klippert — cosponsor (person)
- Kretz — cosponsor (person)
- Leavitt — cosponsor (person)
- Lovick — cosponsor (person)
- MacEwen — cosponsor (person)
- Macri — cosponsor (person)
- McCaslin — cosponsor (person)
- Mosbrucker — cosponsor (person)
- Ormsby — cosponsor (person)
- Orwall — cosponsor (person)
- Pettigrew — cosponsor (person)
- Reeves — cosponsor (person)
- Riccelli — cosponsor (person)
- Ryu — cosponsor (person)
- Schmick — cosponsor (person)
- Sells — cosponsor (person)
- Slatter — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Stanford — cosponsor (person)
- Steele — cosponsor (person)
- Stokesbary — cosponsor (person)
- Sutherland — cosponsor (person)
- Tharinger — cosponsor (person)
- Van Werven — cosponsor (person)
- Volz — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-22** First reading, referred to Housing, Community Development & Veterans. `reading-1`
- **2019-02-05** HOUS - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `passage`
- **2019-02-07** Referred to Appropriations.
- **2019-02-25** APP - Executive action taken by committee.
- **2019-02-25** APP - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `passage`
- **2019-02-28** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
- **2019-03-01** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2019-03-04** 2nd substitute bill substituted. `substitution`
- **2019-02-05** HOUS - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `passage`
- **2019-02-07** Referred to Appropriations.
- **2019-02-25** APP - Executive action taken by committee.
- **2019-02-25** APP - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `passage`
- **2019-02-28** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
- **2019-03-01** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2019-03-04** 2nd substitute bill substituted. `substitution`
- **2019-02-25** APP - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `passage`
- **2019-02-28** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
- **2019-03-01** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2019-03-04** 2nd substitute bill substituted. `substitution`
- **2019-03-04** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2019-03-04** Third reading, passed; yeas, 96; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 2. `reading-3`
- **2019-03-06** First reading, referred to State Government, Tribal Relations & Elections. `reading-1`
- **2019-03-29** SGTE - Majority; do pass.
- **2019-03-29** And refer to Ways & Means. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Minority; without recommendation.
- **2019-04-01** Referred to Ways & Means.
- **2019-04-09** WM - Majority; do pass.
- **2019-04-09** Minority; without recommendation.
- **2019-04-09** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2019-04-11** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2019-04-15** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2019-04-15** Third reading, passed; yeas, 46; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 3. `reading-3`
- **2019-04-18** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2019-04-25** President signed. `passage`
- **2019-04-26** Delivered to Governor.
- **2019-04-30** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-30** Chapter 223, 2019 Laws. `became-law`
- **2019-04-30** Effective date 7/28/2019. `became-law`
- **2019-01-30T13:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Housing, Community Development & Veterans at 08:00 AM
- **2019-02-05T15:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Housing, Community Development & Veterans at 10:00 AM
- **2019-02-21T20:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 03:30 PM
- **2019-02-25T18:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 01:30 PM
- **2019-03-27T12:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on State Government, Tribal Relations & Elections at 08:00 AM
- **2019-03-29T17:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on State Government, Tribal Relations & Elections at 01:30 PM
- **2019-04-09T14:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 10:00 AM
- **2019-04-09T14:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 10:00 AM

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/00bffeb7-d721-4be0-a60f-ba148c97d722`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).