---
type: "Bill"
title: "Ensuring the ongoing sustainability and vitality of the Washington health benefit exchange by eliminating the expiration date of its business and occupation tax exemption."
description: "Ensuring the ongoing sustainability and vitality of the Washington health benefit exchange by eliminating the expiration date of its business and occupation tax exemption."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2021-2022"
identifier: "HB 1765"
citation: "Washington HB 1765 (2021-2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["INSURANCE", "TAX PREFERENCES - EXEMPTIONS", "CREDITS", "DEDUCTIONS", "DEFERRALS", "ETC."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chopp"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-04T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-03-17T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bc90ae91-9e78-46f4-a975-fa995fe8a0e7"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1765&year=2021"
source_hash: "2b3101dd0f8633611a91d903b75afb5b70b174d035ca71d81fe60ecc6e7cd802"
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 1765 (2021-2022) — Ensuring the ongoing sustainability and vitality of the Washington health benefit exchange by eliminating the expiration date of its business and occupation tax exemption.

## 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/2021-22/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1765.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#20) — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#11) — **95–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chopp — primary (person)
- Chapman — cosponsor (person)
- Cody — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Fitzgibbon — cosponsor (person)
- Goodman — cosponsor (person)
- Kloba — cosponsor (person)
- Macri — cosponsor (person)
- Ortiz-Self — cosponsor (person)
- Pollet — cosponsor (person)
- Riccelli — cosponsor (person)
- Ryu — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons — cosponsor (person)
- Stonier — cosponsor (person)
- Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tharinger — cosponsor (person)
- Valdez — cosponsor (person)
- Wylie — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-04T05:00:00+00:00** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
- **2022-01-10T05:00:00+00:00** First reading, referred to Finance. `reading-1`
- **2022-01-17T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing in the House Committee on Finance at 10:00 AM.
- **2022-01-24T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Finance at 10:00 AM.
- **2022-01-24T05:00:00+00:00** FIN - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-26T05:00:00+00:00** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-01T05:00:00+00:00** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2022-02-02T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2022-02-02T05:00:00+00:00** Third reading, passed; yeas, 95; nays, 1; absent, 0; excused, 2. `reading-3`
- **2022-02-07T05:00:00+00:00** First reading, referred to Ways & Means. `reading-1`
- **2022-02-22T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 4:00 PM.
- **2022-02-22T05:00:00+00:00** WM - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-23T05:00:00+00:00** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2022-03-03T05:00:00+00:00** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2022-03-04T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2022-03-04T05:00:00+00:00** Third reading, passed; yeas, 48; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2022-03-07T05:00:00+00:00** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2022-03-08T05:00:00+00:00** President signed. `passage`
- **2022-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-17T04:00:00+00:00** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-17T04:00:00+00:00** Chapter 73, 2022 Laws. `became-law`
- **2022-03-17T04:00:00+00:00** Effective date 6/9/2022. `became-law`
- **2022-01-17T15:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Finance at 10:00 AM
- **2022-01-24T15:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Finance at 10:00 AM
- **2022-02-22T21:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 04:00 PM

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bc90ae91-9e78-46f4-a975-fa995fe8a0e7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).