---
type: "Bill"
title: "Making expenditures from the budget stabilization account for declared catastrophic events."
description: "Making expenditures from the budget stabilization account for declared catastrophic events."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "HB 1473"
citation: "Washington HB 1473 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gregerson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-21"
last_action: "2025-05-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c55b355e-65e6-4765-a413-c6c11b49b9de"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=1473&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "de0ec0ad61a1f41771b01108dd4aacc6e8d2e87def5db34048b3f15859880759"
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 1473 (2025-2026) — Making expenditures from the budget stabilization account for declared catastrophic events.

## 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/1473.htm)
2. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1473-S.htm)
3. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1473-S.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#2) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#21) — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gregerson — primary (person)
- Callan — cosponsor (person)
- Ormsby — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-21** First reading, referred to Appropriations. `reading-1`
- **2025-02-06** Public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 4:00 PM.
- **2025-02-20** Executive session scheduled, but no action was taken in the House Committee on Appropriations at 4:00 PM.
- **2025-02-24** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Appropriations at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-02-24** APP - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
- **2025-02-27** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-16** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2025-04-17** 1st substitute bill substituted (APP 25). `substitution`
- **2025-04-17** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-17** Third reading, passed; yeas, 93; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 5. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-18** First reading, referred to Ways & Means. `reading-1`
- **2025-04-23** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-04-25** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-04-25** WM - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-25** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-04-25** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2025-04-25** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2025-04-26** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-26** Third reading, passed; yeas, 46; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 2. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-27** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-27** President signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-27** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-17** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-17** Chapter 325, 2025 Laws. `became-law`
- **2025-05-17** Effective date 5/17/2025. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c55b355e-65e6-4765-a413-c6c11b49b9de`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).