---
type: "Bill"
title: "Reducing stigma and incentivizing health care professionals to participate in a substance use disorder monitoring and treatment program."
description: "Reducing stigma and incentivizing health care professionals to participate in a substance use disorder monitoring and treatment program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "HB 1255"
citation: "Washington HB 1255 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Simmons"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 28
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-12"
last_action: "2023-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ece925e2-c86c-4474-ba94-492560844a68"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1255&year=2023"
source_hash: "eee664f4e7b5ad402fcdfe2129a8a484c88b8d388e15c490c2fbf311b550700d"
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 1255 (2023-2024) — Reducing stigma and incentivizing health care professionals to participate in a substance use disorder monitoring and treatment 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/2023-24/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1255.htm)
2. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1255-S.htm)
3. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1255-S.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#2) — **60–35** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#11) — **40–7** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Simmons — primary (person)
- Bateman — cosponsor (person)
- Doglio — cosponsor (person)
- Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Macri — cosponsor (person)
- Peterson — cosponsor (person)
- Reed — cosponsor (person)
- Riccelli — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-12** First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness. `reading-1`
- **2023-01-24** Public hearing in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 1:30 PM.
- **2023-01-27** Executive session scheduled, but no action was taken in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 8:00 AM.
- **2023-02-03** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 8:00 AM.
- **2023-02-03** HCW - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
- **2023-02-06** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2023-02-07** Referred to Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-10** Committee relieved of further consideration.
- **2023-02-10** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-03** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2023-03-06** 1st substitute bill substituted (HCW 23). `substitution`
- **2023-03-06** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-03-06** Third reading, passed; yeas, 60; nays, 35; absent, 0; excused, 3. `reading-3`
- **2023-03-08** First reading, referred to Health & Long Term Care. `reading-1`
- **2023-03-23** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Health & Long Term Care at 10:30 AM.
- **2023-03-28** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Health & Long Term Care at 8:00 AM.
- **2023-03-28** HLTC - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-28** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2023-03-29** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2023-03-30** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2023-04-06** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-06** Third reading, passed; yeas, 40; nays, 7; absent, 0; excused, 2. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-07** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2023-04-08** President signed. `passage`
- **2023-04-14** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-04-20** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2023-04-20** Chapter 141, 2023 Laws. `became-law`
- **2023-04-20** Effective date 7/23/2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ece925e2-c86c-4474-ba94-492560844a68`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).