---
type: "Bill"
title: "Requiring traumatic brain injury screenings for children entering the foster care system."
description: "Requiring traumatic brain injury screenings for children entering the foster care system."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "HB 1605"
citation: "Washington HB 1605 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HEALTH AND SAFETY", "PUBLIC", "FOSTER CARE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dent"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 32
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-25"
last_action: "2019-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8606645d-667f-490c-903a-322d557134e4"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1605&year=2019"
source_hash: "15d93df743b8c9b8e8e66635a7cf1837b735d92a4e7f154c7a94b132c04e1e7d"
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 1605 (2019-2020) — Requiring traumatic brain injury screenings for children entering the foster care system.

## 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/1605.htm)
2. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2019-20/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1605-S.htm)

## Votes

- Final Passage (#33) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#29) — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dent — primary (person)
- Appleton — cosponsor (person)
- Bergquist — cosponsor (person)
- Blake — cosponsor (person)
- Caldier — cosponsor (person)
- Callan — cosponsor (person)
- Cody — cosponsor (person)
- DeBolt — cosponsor (person)
- Doglio — cosponsor (person)
- Eslick — cosponsor (person)
- Fey — cosponsor (person)
- Frame — cosponsor (person)
- Goodman — cosponsor (person)
- Griffey — cosponsor (person)
- Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Jinkins — cosponsor (person)
- Klippert — cosponsor (person)
- Kloba — cosponsor (person)
- Kretz — cosponsor (person)
- Leavitt — cosponsor (person)
- Lovick — cosponsor (person)
- Macri — cosponsor (person)
- Ormsby — cosponsor (person)
- Ortiz-Self — cosponsor (person)
- Orwall — cosponsor (person)
- Peterson — cosponsor (person)
- Reeves — cosponsor (person)
- Schmick — cosponsor (person)
- Shea — cosponsor (person)
- Stanford — cosponsor (person)
- Tarleton — cosponsor (person)
- Van Werven — cosponsor (person)
- Volz — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-25** First reading, referred to Human Services & Early Learning. `reading-1`
- **2019-02-15** HSEL - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `passage`
- **2019-02-19** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
- **2019-03-01** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2019-03-05** 1st substitute bill substituted. `substitution`
- **2019-02-15** HSEL - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `passage`
- **2019-02-19** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
- **2019-03-01** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2019-03-05** 1st substitute bill substituted. `substitution`
- **2019-03-05** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2019-03-05** Third reading, passed; yeas, 98; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2019-03-07** First reading, referred to Human Services, Reentry & Rehabilitation. `reading-1`
- **2019-03-21** HSRR - Majority; do pass.
- **2019-03-21** And refer to Ways & Means. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-22** Referred to Ways & Means.
- **2019-04-05** WM - Majority; do pass.
- **2019-04-08** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2019-04-09** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2019-04-12** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2019-04-12** Third reading, passed; yeas, 45; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 4. `reading-3`
- **2019-04-15** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2019-04-16** President signed. `passage`
- **2019-04-18** Delivered to Governor.
- **2019-04-24** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-24** Chapter 120, 2019 Laws. `became-law`
- **2019-04-24** Effective date 7/28/2019. `became-law`
- **2019-02-12T18:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Human Services & Early Learning at 01:30 PM
- **2019-02-15T13:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Human Services & Early Learning at 08:00 AM
- **2019-03-19T17:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Human Services, Reentry & Rehabilitation at 01:30 PM
- **2019-03-21T17:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Human Services, Reentry & Rehabilitation at 01:30 PM
- **2019-03-28T19:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 03:30 PM
- **2019-04-05T13:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 09:00 AM

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8606645d-667f-490c-903a-322d557134e4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).