republic-os/legislation/us/states/wa/2023-2024/hb-2014.md

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Bill	Concerning the definition of veteran and restoring honor to veterans.	Concerning the definition of veteran and restoring honor to veterans.	us/states/wa	Washington Legislature	2023-2024	HB 2014	Washington HB 2014 (2023-2024)	bill		enacted	Volz	4	32	2	2023-12-21	2024-03-18	openstates	ocd-bill/3e853190-d784-43f0-b14e-5822b79b857c	http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=2014&year=2023	24f01e248de556425332efd5e0e9e3045653f46e03479d4f08c17b6038221902	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wa

Washington HB 2014 (2023-2024) — Concerning the definition of veteran and restoring honor to veterans.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#9) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#7) — 49–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Volz — primary (person)
• Couture — cosponsor (person)
• Donaghy — cosponsor (person)
• Fey — cosponsor (person)
• Graham — cosponsor (person)
• Harris — cosponsor (person)
• Jacobsen — cosponsor (person)
• Leavitt — cosponsor (person)
• Low — cosponsor (person)
• Macri — cosponsor (person)
• Ormsby — cosponsor (person)
• Paul — cosponsor (person)
• Reed — cosponsor (person)
• Reeves — cosponsor (person)
• Riccelli — cosponsor (person)
• Ryu — cosponsor (person)
• Sandlin — cosponsor (person)
• Schmidt — cosponsor (person)
• Shavers — cosponsor (person)
• Steele — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-12-21 Prefiled for introduction. filing
• 2024-01-08 First reading, referred to Innovation, Community & Economic Development, & Veterans. reading-1
• 2024-01-10 Public hearing in the House Committee on Technology, Economic Development, & Veterans at 8:00 AM.
• 2024-01-19 Executive action taken in the House Committee on Technology, Economic Development, & Veterans at 10:30 AM.
• 2024-01-19 ICEV - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. substitution
• 2024-01-24 Referred to Appropriations. referral-committee
• 2024-01-31 Public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 4:00 PM.
• 2024-02-02 Executive action taken in the House Committee on Appropriations at 10:30 AM.
• 2024-02-02 APP - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. substitution
• 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
• 2024-02-10 2nd substitute bill substituted (APP 24). substitution
• 2024-02-10 Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. reading-3
• 2024-02-10 Third reading, passed; yeas, 97; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1. reading-3
• 2024-02-13 First reading, referred to State Government & Elections. reading-1
• 2024-02-20 Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on State Government & Elections at 1:30 PM.
• 2024-02-20 SGE - Majority; do pass. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-20 And refer to Ways & Means. referral-committee
• 2024-02-21 Referred to Ways & Means. referral-committee
• 2024-02-24 Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 9:00 AM.
• 2024-02-26 Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 10:00 AM.
• 2024-02-26 WM - Majority; do pass. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-26 Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
• 2024-02-28 Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. reading-2
• 2024-03-01 Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. reading-3
• 2024-03-01 Third reading, passed; yeas, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. reading-3
• 2024-03-04 Speaker signed. passage
• 2024-03-05 President signed. passage
• 2024-03-06 Delivered to Governor. executive-receipt
• 2024-03-18 Governor signed. executive-signature
• 2024-03-18 Chapter 146, 2024 Laws. became-law
• 2024-03-18 Effective date 6/6/2024*. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3e853190-d784-43f0-b14e-5822b79b857c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).