republic-os/legislation/us/states/wa/2023-2024/hb-1945.md

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Bill	Streamlining and enhancing program access for persons eligible for food assistance.	Streamlining and enhancing program access for persons eligible for food assistance.	us/states/wa	Washington Legislature	2023-2024	HB 1945	Washington HB 1945 (2023-2024)	bill		enacted	Alvarado	3	33	3	2023-12-14	2024-03-25	openstates	ocd-bill/2031778c-69fd-4ddf-84ca-41b917887b0a	http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1945&year=2023	3af6dc28a9a2f4e085c73497cbaa36876165bd760eab9e95bc249127ac5a8623	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wa

Washington HB 1945 (2023-2024) — Streamlining and enhancing program access for persons eligible for food assistance.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Bill (committee substitute) — source
2. Substitute Bill (committee substitute) — source
3. Substitute Passed Legislature (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#7) — 95–1 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#17) — 49–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#16) — 94–3 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alvarado — primary (person)
• Bergquist — cosponsor (person)
• Berry — cosponsor (person)
• Callan — cosponsor (person)
• Chopp — cosponsor (person)
• Cortes — cosponsor (person)
• Doglio — cosponsor (person)
• Fosse — cosponsor (person)
• Goodman — cosponsor (person)
• Gregerson — cosponsor (person)
• Hackney — cosponsor (person)
• Kloba — cosponsor (person)
• Leavitt — cosponsor (person)
• Macri — cosponsor (person)
• Mena — cosponsor (person)
• Morgan — cosponsor (person)
• Ormsby — cosponsor (person)
• Ortiz-Self — cosponsor (person)
• Peterson — cosponsor (person)
• Ramel — cosponsor (person)
• Reed — cosponsor (person)
• Riccelli — cosponsor (person)
• Rule — cosponsor (person)
• Ryu — cosponsor (person)
• Senn — cosponsor (person)
• Simmons — cosponsor (person)
• Slatter — cosponsor (person)
• Street — cosponsor (person)
• Thai — cosponsor (person)
• Tharinger — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-12-14 Prefiled for introduction. filing
• 2024-01-08 First reading, referred to Human Services, Youth, & Early Learning. reading-1
• 2024-01-09 Public hearing in the House Committee on Early Learning & Human Services at 1:30 PM.
• 2024-01-26 Executive action taken in the House Committee on Early Learning & Human Services at 8:00 AM.
• 2024-01-26 HSEL - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. substitution
• 2024-01-26 Minority; do not pass. committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2024-01-26 Minority; without recommendation. committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2024-01-29 Referred to Appropriations. referral-committee
• 2024-02-02 Public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 10:30 AM.
• 2024-02-05 Executive action taken in the House Committee on Appropriations at 10:30 AM.
• 2024-02-05 APP - Majority; do pass 1st substitute bill proposed by Human Services, Youth, & Early Learning. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-05 Referred to Rules 2 Review. referral-committee
• 2024-02-08 Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. reading-2
• 2024-02-09 1st substitute bill substituted (HSEL 24). substitution
• 2024-02-09 Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. reading-3
• 2024-02-09 Third reading, passed; yeas, 94; nays, 3; absent, 0; excused, 1. reading-3
• 2024-02-13 First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education. reading-1
• 2024-02-19 Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education at 1:30 PM.
• 2024-02-21 Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education at 10:30 AM.
• 2024-02-21 EDU - Majority; do pass with amendment(s). committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-21 Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
• 2024-02-23 Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. reading-2
• 2024-02-27 Committee amendment(s) adopted with no other amendments.
• 2024-02-27 Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. reading-3
• 2024-02-27 Third reading, passed; yeas, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. reading-3
• 2024-03-05 House concurred in Senate amendments.
• 2024-03-05 Passed final passage; yeas, 95; nays, 1; absent, 0; excused, 1. passage
• 2024-03-06 Speaker signed. passage
• 2024-03-07 President signed. passage
• 2024-03-07 Delivered to Governor. executive-receipt
• 2024-03-25 Governor signed. executive-signature
• 2024-03-25 Chapter 225, 2024 Laws. became-law
• 2024-03-25 Effective date 6/6/2024*. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2031778c-69fd-4ddf-84ca-41b917887b0a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).