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| Bill |
Prohibiting scleral tattooing. |
Prohibiting scleral tattooing. |
us/states/wa |
Washington Legislature |
2019-2020 |
HB 1856 |
Washington HB 1856 (2019-2020) |
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| HEALTH AND SAFETY |
| PUBLIC |
| TATTOOING AND TATTOO ARTISTS |
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enacted |
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2 |
27 |
2 |
2019-02-01 |
2019-05-08 |
openstates |
ocd-bill/24bc71c8-bbf6-49c6-b322-080a2de1948b |
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1856&year=2019 |
6569e50adb3743a7e7f71f94e21e3eda1c3d514a1263124669b3b4ea1ba8588c |
2026-07-01 |
https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump |
2026-07-06 |
reported |
|
Washington HB 1856 (2019-2020) — Prohibiting scleral tattooing.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Bill (committee substitute) — source
- Substitute Bill (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#5) — 47–1 (pass) · upper
- Final Passage (#16) — 94–4 (pass) · lower
- Tharinger — primary (person)
- Caldier — cosponsor (person)
- Cody — cosponsor (person)
- Corry — cosponsor (person)
- DeBolt — cosponsor (person)
- Doglio — cosponsor (person)
- Klippert — cosponsor (person)
- Kloba — cosponsor (person)
- Macri — cosponsor (person)
- Mead — cosponsor (person)
- Peterson — cosponsor (person)
- Ryu — cosponsor (person)
- Stanford — cosponsor (person)
- Steele — cosponsor (person)
- Sutherland — cosponsor (person)
- Wylie — cosponsor (person)
- Ybarra — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2019-02-01 First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness.
reading-1
- 2019-02-22 HCW - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
passage
- 2019-02-22 Referred to Rules 2 Review.
- 2019-03-01 Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- 2019-03-08 1st substitute bill substituted.
substitution
- 2019-02-22 HCW - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
passage
- 2019-02-22 Referred to Rules 2 Review.
- 2019-03-01 Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- 2019-03-08 1st substitute bill substituted.
substitution
- 2019-03-08 Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- 2019-03-08 Third reading, passed; yeas, 94; nays, 4; absent, 0; excused, 0.
reading-3
- 2019-03-11 First reading, referred to Health & Long Term Care.
reading-1
- 2019-03-25 HLTC - Majority; do pass.
- 2019-03-26 Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- 2019-04-11 Placed on second reading consent calendar.
- 2019-04-16 Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- 2019-04-16 Third reading, passed; yeas, 47; nays, 1; absent, 0; excused, 1.
reading-3
- 2019-04-18 Speaker signed.
passage
- 2019-04-25 President signed.
passage
- 2019-04-26 Delivered to Governor.
- 2019-05-08 Governor signed.
executive-signature
- 2019-05-08 Chapter 307, 2019 Laws.
became-law
- 2019-05-08 Effective date 7/28/2019.
became-law
- 2019-02-20T18:30:00+00:00 Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 01:30 PM
- 2019-02-22T13:00:00+00:00 Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 08:00 AM
- 2019-03-22T12:00:00+00:00 Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Health & Long Term Care at 08:00 AM
- 2019-03-25T17:30:00+00:00 Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Health & Long Term Care at 01:30 PM
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/24bc71c8-bbf6-49c6-b322-080a2de1948b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
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