---
type: "Bill"
title: "Concerning performance measures, duties, and reporting requirements for the office of privacy and data protection."
description: "Concerning performance measures, duties, and reporting requirements for the office of privacy and data protection."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "HB 2606"
citation: "Washington HB 2606 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barnard"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-01-21"
last_action: "2026-03-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/00f41aff-6410-4f7d-b4a4-2445ef696aae"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=2606&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "25b4349011d48ac6b31778dbe26f740f4a1b97023d7f5f827fba4b1e468112dc"
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 2606 (2025-2026) — Concerning performance measures, duties, and reporting requirements for the office of privacy and data protection.

## 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/2606.htm)
2. **Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/2606.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#16) — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#10) — **89–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barnard — primary (person)
- Nance — cosponsor (person)
- Ryu — cosponsor (person)
- Timmons — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-21** First reading, referred to Technology, Economic Development, & Veterans. `reading-1`
- **2026-01-27** Public hearing in the House Committee on Technology, Economic Development, & Veterans at 10:30 AM.
- **2026-02-03** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Technology, Economic Development, & Veterans at 10:30 AM.
- **2026-02-03** TEDV - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-04** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-06** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2026-02-11** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2026-02-11** Third reading, passed; yeas, 89; nays, 6; absent, 0; excused, 3. `reading-3`
- **2026-02-13** First reading, referred to Environment, Energy & Technology. `reading-1`
- **2026-02-18** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Environment, Energy & Technology at 8:00 AM.
- **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; without recommendation. `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, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2026-02-28** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2026-02-28** President signed. `passage`
- **2026-03-03** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-09** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-09** Chapter 9, 2026 Laws. `became-law`
- **2026-03-09** 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/00f41aff-6410-4f7d-b4a4-2445ef696aae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).