---
type: "Bill"
title: "Strengthening health care market standards."
description: "Strengthening health care market standards."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "HB 2548"
citation: "Washington HB 2548 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Taylor"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 37
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2026-01-16"
last_action: "2026-03-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/46c2bedc-52ed-4420-b975-e69b33a2f0f6"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=2548&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "d3e414d066f558f4a339c6b8a02d34bf57ffd968a77dd9b9b7951a2ba3e1cf08"
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 2548 (2025-2026) — Strengthening health care market 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/2548.htm)
2. **Engrossed Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/2548-S.E.htm)
3. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/2548-S.htm)
4. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/2548-S.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#9) — **30–19** (pass) · upper
- Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#11) — **55–41** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#10) — **53–38** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Taylor — primary (person)
- Fosse — cosponsor (person)
- Macri — cosponsor (person)
- Ormsby — cosponsor (person)
- Pollet — cosponsor (person)
- Scott — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-16** First reading, referred to Civil Rights & Judiciary. `reading-1`
- **2026-01-21** Public hearing in the House Committee on Civil Rights & Judiciary at 8:00 AM.
- **2026-02-03** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Civil Rights & Judiciary at 10:30 AM.
- **2026-02-03** CRJ - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
- **2026-02-03** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2026-02-03** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2026-02-04** Referred to Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-06** Public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 10:30 AM.
- **2026-02-09** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Appropriations at 10:30 AM.
- **2026-02-09** APP - Majority; do pass 1st substitute bill proposed by Civil Rights & Judiciary. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-09** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2026-02-09** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-14** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2026-02-16** 1st substitute bill substituted (CRJ 26). `substitution`
- **2026-02-16** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
- **2026-02-16** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2026-02-16** Third reading, passed; yeas, 53; nays, 38; absent, 0; excused, 7. `reading-3`
- **2026-02-18** First reading, referred to Law & Justice. `reading-1`
- **2026-02-20** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Law & Justice at 2:00 PM.
- **2026-02-24** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Law & Justice at 8:00 AM.
- **2026-02-24** LAW - Majority; do pass with amendment(s). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-24** And refer to Ways & Means. `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-24** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2026-02-24** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2026-02-25** On motion, referred to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2026-03-03** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2026-03-05** Committee amendment(s) adopted with no other amendments.
- **2026-03-05** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2026-03-05** Third reading, passed; yeas, 30; nays, 19; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2026-03-11** House concurred in Senate amendments.
- **2026-03-11** Passed final passage; yeas, 55; nays, 41; absent, 0; excused, 2. `passage`
- **2026-03-11** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2026-03-12** President signed. `passage`
- **2026-03-12** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-25** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-25** Chapter 222, 2026 Laws. `became-law`
- **2026-03-25** Effective date 6/11/2026. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/46c2bedc-52ed-4420-b975-e69b33a2f0f6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).