---
type: "Bill"
title: "Permitting early deployment of state fire service resources."
description: "Permitting early deployment of state fire service resources."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "HB 1271"
citation: "Washington HB 1271 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nance"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 30
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-14"
last_action: "2025-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/afa4face-7d3b-4490-a019-cc015ba6fd45"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=1271&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "e2d46922ec7a03331e3d10ec93cfb80b70b74e3d407ff16a7a03edddd1bc5797"
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 1271 (2025-2026) — Permitting early deployment of state fire service resources.

## 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/1271.htm)
2. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1271-S.htm)
3. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1271-S.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#19) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#32) — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#14) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Nance — primary (person)
- Barkis — cosponsor (person)
- Bronoske — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Dent — cosponsor (person)
- Dye — cosponsor (person)
- Eslick — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- Klicker — cosponsor (person)
- Kloba — cosponsor (person)
- Leavitt — cosponsor (person)
- Marshall — cosponsor (person)
- Mena — cosponsor (person)
- Ormsby — cosponsor (person)
- Parshley — cosponsor (person)
- Peterson — cosponsor (person)
- Ramel — cosponsor (person)
- Reed — cosponsor (person)
- Richards — cosponsor (person)
- Ryu — cosponsor (person)
- Salahuddin — cosponsor (person)
- Scott — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons — cosponsor (person)
- Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Timmons — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-14** First reading, referred to Technology, Economic Development, & Veterans. `reading-1`
- **2025-01-24** Public hearing in the House Committee on Technology, Economic Development, & Veterans at 10:30 AM.
- **2025-01-31** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Technology, Economic Development, & Veterans at 10:30 AM.
- **2025-01-31** TEDV - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-04** Referred to Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26** Public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-02-28** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Appropriations at 9:00 AM.
- **2025-02-28** APP - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
- **2025-02-28** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-10** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2025-03-11** 1st substitute bill substituted (APP 25). `substitution`
- **2025-03-11** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-11** Third reading, passed; yeas, 96; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 2. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-13** First reading, referred to Ways & Means. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-18** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 4:00 PM.
- **2025-04-03** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-04-03** WM - Majority; do pass with amendment(s). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-05** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2025-04-11** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2025-04-15** Committee amendment(s) adopted with no other amendments.
- **2025-04-15** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-15** Third reading, passed; yeas, 48; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1. `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 239, 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/afa4face-7d3b-4490-a019-cc015ba6fd45`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).