---
type: "Bill"
title: "Concerning newspapers and eligible digital content."
description: "Concerning newspapers and eligible digital content."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "HB 1060"
citation: "Washington HB 1060 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Santos"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-12-13"
last_action: "2025-04-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9b32b1da-b4a3-4814-830e-269f03cf3943"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=1060&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "c5baeacaf69a25a81a65f497b9db21d0ec689e214fe44120ed0bf07d6e989fd5"
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 1060 (2025-2026) — Concerning newspapers and eligible digital content.

## 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/1060.htm)
2. **Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1060.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#11) — **40–9** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#5) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Santos — primary (person)
- Duerr — cosponsor (person)
- Orcutt — cosponsor (person)
- Shavers — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-13** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
- **2025-01-13** First reading, referred to Finance. `reading-1`
- **2025-01-23** Public hearing in the House Committee on Finance at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-01-30** Executive session scheduled, but no action was taken in the House Committee on Finance at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-02-04** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Finance at 8:00 AM.
- **2025-02-04** FIN - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-05** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2025-03-06** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-06** Third reading, passed; yeas, 97; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-10** First reading, referred to Ways & Means. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-18** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 4:00 PM.
- **2025-03-18** WM - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-18** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-03-18** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-03-20** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2025-03-21** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2025-03-26** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-26** Third reading, passed; yeas, 40; nays, 9; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-31** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2025-03-31** President signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-07** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-07** Chapter 15, 2025 Laws. `became-law`
- **2025-04-07** Effective date 7/27/2025. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9b32b1da-b4a3-4814-830e-269f03cf3943`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).