---
type: "Bill"
title: "Modifying higher education accreditation standards."
description: "Modifying higher education accreditation standards."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "HB 1572"
citation: "Washington HB 1572 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pollet"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-24"
last_action: "2025-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a7799b02-083f-4512-b630-8b3d1c325a8f"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=1572&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "94004a92bc5b1a457ca450de9bacb133009fcaa8f32c4ce257468eaacbee52fe"
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 1572 (2025-2026) — Modifying higher education accreditation standards.

## 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/1572.htm)
2. **Engrossed Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1572-S.E.htm)
3. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1572-S.htm)
4. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1572-S.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#35) — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#14) — **95–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Pollet — primary (person)
- Entenman — cosponsor (person)
- Nance — cosponsor (person)
- Reed — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-24** First reading, referred to Postsecondary Education & Workforce. `reading-1`
- **2025-02-12** Public hearing in the House Committee on Postsecondary Education & Workforce at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-02-19** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Postsecondary Education & Workforce at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-02-19** PEW - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
- **2025-02-19** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-02-19** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-02-21** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2025-03-12** 1st substitute bill substituted (PEW 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, 95; nays, 2; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-14** First reading, referred to Higher Education & Workforce Development. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-20** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Higher Education & Workforce Development at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-03-24** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Higher Education & Workforce Development at 10:30 AM.
- **2025-03-24** HEWD - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-26** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2025-04-15** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **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`
- **2025-04-18** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-19** President signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-21** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-24** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-24** Chapter 157, 2025 Laws. `became-law`
- **2025-04-24** 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/a7799b02-083f-4512-b630-8b3d1c325a8f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).