---
type: "Bill"
title: "Improving access to career opportunities for students."
description: "Improving access to career opportunities for students."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "HB 1414"
citation: "Washington HB 1414 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Connors"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-20"
last_action: "2025-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/81d21ed5-f778-488f-bb5e-736f0038a38a"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=1414&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "9d82f63500f6b4e6b26a93e596d6aa14a6b7fc67290b1a53c6e30bbc3786e1fa"
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 1414 (2025-2026) — Improving access to career opportunities for students.

## 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/1414.htm)
2. **Engrossed Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1414-S.E.htm)
3. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1414-S.htm)
4. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1414-S.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#13) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#10) — **48–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Connors — primary (person)
- Couture — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Keaton — cosponsor (person)
- McClintock — cosponsor (person)
- Paul — cosponsor (person)
- Penner — cosponsor (person)
- Rude — cosponsor (person)
- Shavers — cosponsor (person)
- Springer — cosponsor (person)
- Tharinger — cosponsor (person)
- Timmons — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-20** First reading, referred to Education. `reading-1`
- **2025-02-11** Public hearing in the House Committee on Education at 4:00 PM.
- **2025-02-18** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Education at 4:00 PM.
- **2025-02-18** ED - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
- **2025-02-21** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-10** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2025-03-12** 1st substitute bill substituted (ED 25). `substitution`
- **2025-03-12** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
- **2025-03-12** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-12** Third reading, passed; yeas, 97; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-14** First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-19** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-03-27** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education at 10:30 AM.
- **2025-03-27** EDU - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-28** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2025-04-02** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2025-04-07** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-07** Third reading, passed; yeas, 48; nays, 1; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-09** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-10** President signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-11** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-16** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-16** Chapter 61, 2025 Laws. `became-law`
- **2025-04-16** 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/81d21ed5-f778-488f-bb5e-736f0038a38a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).