---
type: "Bill"
title: "Eliminating preferential treatment related to a coal-fired electric generating plant."
description: "Eliminating preferential treatment related to a coal-fired electric generating plant."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "HB 2367"
citation: "Washington HB 2367 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fitzgibbon"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 29
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-01-09"
last_action: "2026-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/438f6335-850a-41be-8ba8-ce0cc5b211d4"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=2367&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "f0740ec9c27a6219297973ca7aa1650bb782dc31f2c7747fea990786be62508f"
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 2367 (2025-2026) — Eliminating preferential treatment related to a coal-fired electric generating plant.

## 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/2367.htm)
2. **Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/2367.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#18) — **29–19** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#16) — **63–33** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Fitzgibbon — primary (person)
- Berry — cosponsor (person)
- Doglio — cosponsor (person)
- Duerr — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Kloba — cosponsor (person)
- Mena — cosponsor (person)
- Ormsby — cosponsor (person)
- Parshley — cosponsor (person)
- Pollet — cosponsor (person)
- Ramel — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-09** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
- **2026-01-12** First reading, referred to Environment & Energy. `reading-1`
- **2026-01-19** Public hearing in the House Committee on Environment & Energy at 1:30 PM.
- **2026-01-22** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Environment & Energy at 8:00 AM.
- **2026-01-22** ENVI - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-22** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2026-01-27** Referred to Finance. `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-03** Public hearing in the House Committee on Finance at 8:00 AM.
- **2026-02-06** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Finance at 8:00 AM.
- **2026-02-06** FIN - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-06** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2026-02-09** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-11** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2026-02-12** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2026-02-12** Third reading, passed; yeas, 63; nays, 33; absent, 0; excused, 2. `reading-3`
- **2026-02-16** First reading, referred to Environment, Energy & Technology. `reading-1`
- **2026-02-20** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Environment, Energy & Technology at 10:30 AM.
- **2026-02-20** ENET - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-20** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2026-02-23** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2026-02-24** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2026-02-28** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2026-02-28** Third reading, passed; yeas, 29; nays, 19; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2026-03-04** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2026-03-04** President signed. `passage`
- **2026-03-05** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-11** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-11** Chapter 37, 2026 Laws. `became-law`
- **2026-03-11** Effective date 3/11/2026. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/438f6335-850a-41be-8ba8-ce0cc5b211d4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).