---
type: "Bill"
title: "Expanding the situations in which medications can be dispensed or delivered from hospitals and health care entities."
description: "Expanding the situations in which medications can be dispensed or delivered from hospitals and health care entities."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "HB 1186"
citation: "Washington HB 1186 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Parshley"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 28
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-07"
last_action: "2025-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d2eccfee-28a3-4dfa-ae4b-930603a5095b"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=1186&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "ff2e10d69a5c0773bb883fd3ece98e6b14868b4c39cf3801af624287db584e98"
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 1186 (2025-2026) — Expanding the situations in which medications can be dispensed or delivered from hospitals and health care entities.

## 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/1186.htm)
2. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1186-S.htm)
3. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1186-S.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#4) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#17) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#30) — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Parshley — primary (person)
- Bernbaum — cosponsor (person)
- Doglio — cosponsor (person)
- Farivar — cosponsor (person)
- Fosse — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Low — cosponsor (person)
- Macri — cosponsor (person)
- Obras — cosponsor (person)
- Ormsby — cosponsor (person)
- Ramel — cosponsor (person)
- Reed — cosponsor (person)
- Rule — cosponsor (person)
- Salahuddin — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-07** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
- **2025-01-13** First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness. `reading-1`
- **2025-01-24** Public hearing in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 8:00 AM.
- **2025-01-31** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 8:00 AM.
- **2025-01-31** HCW - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
- **2025-02-04** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2025-03-04** 1st substitute bill substituted (HCW 25). `substitution`
- **2025-03-04** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-04** Third reading, passed; yeas, 97; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-06** First reading, referred to Health & Long-Term Care. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-18** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Health & Long-Term Care at 10:30 AM.
- **2025-03-20** Executive session scheduled, but no action was taken in the Senate Committee on Health & Long-Term Care at 8:00 AM.
- **2025-03-27** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Health & Long-Term Care at 8:00 AM.
- **2025-03-27** HLTC - Majority; do pass with amendment(s). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-29** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2025-04-15** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2025-04-16** Committee amendment(s) adopted as amended.
- **2025-04-16** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-16** Third reading, passed; yeas, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-21** House concurred in Senate amendments.
- **2025-04-21** Passed final passage; yeas, 97; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1. `passage`
- **2025-04-22** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-23** President signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-23** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-12** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-12** Chapter 213, 2025 Laws. `became-law`
- **2025-05-12** 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/d2eccfee-28a3-4dfa-ae4b-930603a5095b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).