---
type: "Bill"
title: "Establishing the state marine forest."
description: "Establishing the state marine forest."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "HB 1631"
citation: "Washington HB 1631 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nance"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-27"
last_action: "2025-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d10c557a-0883-4e95-a1c5-83dd5228671b"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=1631&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "d9b33e66e606927af1b4b30fcd14f13674f1428539609f2edd281701585464b8"
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 1631 (2025-2026) — Establishing the state marine forest.

## 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/1631.htm)
2. **Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1631.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#9) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#6) — **47–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Nance — primary (person)
- Bernbaum — cosponsor (person)
- Chase — cosponsor (person)
- Duerr — cosponsor (person)
- Griffey — cosponsor (person)
- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- Kloba — cosponsor (person)
- Low — cosponsor (person)
- McEntire — cosponsor (person)
- Mena — cosponsor (person)
- Parshley — cosponsor (person)
- Paul — cosponsor (person)
- Peterson — cosponsor (person)
- Ramel — cosponsor (person)
- Reed — cosponsor (person)
- Richards — cosponsor (person)
- Ryu — cosponsor (person)
- Salahuddin — cosponsor (person)
- Shavers — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons — cosponsor (person)
- Tharinger — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Timmons — cosponsor (person)
- Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- Zahn — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-27** First reading, referred to State Government & Tribal Relations. `reading-1`
- **2025-02-04** Public hearing in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-02-07** Executive action taken in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations at 8:00 AM.
- **2025-02-07** SGOV - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-11** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-28** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **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 State Government, Tribal Affairs & Elections. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-18** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on State Government, Tribal Affairs & Elections at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-03-21** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on State Government, Tribal Affairs & Elections at 10:30 AM.
- **2025-03-21** SGTE - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-25** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2025-04-02** Placed on second reading consent calendar. `reading-2`
- **2025-04-05** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-05** Third reading, passed; yeas, 47; nays, 1; absent, 0; excused, 1. `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 45, 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/d10c557a-0883-4e95-a1c5-83dd5228671b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).