republic-os/legislation/us/states/wa/2023-2024/hb-2124.md

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Bill	Supporting and expanding access to child care and early learning programs.	Supporting and expanding access to child care and early learning programs.	us/states/wa	Washington Legislature	2023-2024	HB 2124	Washington HB 2124 (2023-2024)	bill		enacted	Eslick	4	42	3	2024-01-04	2024-03-26	openstates	ocd-bill/b6cf90c6-c7ab-4b25-bbc4-2f1fc8824c1f	http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=2124&year=2023	352ccc1d13e7f54e8b3ff1398965b1108de78e0a216bfe7052f503b3ce09d48f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wa

Washington HB 2124 (2023-2024) — Supporting and expanding access to child care and early learning programs.

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 as Amended by the Senate (#45) — 39–8 (pass) · upper
• Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#50) — 86–7 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#21) — 74–22 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Eslick — primary (person)
• Callan — cosponsor (person)
• Chapman — cosponsor (person)
• Goodman — cosponsor (person)
• Kloba — cosponsor (person)
• Leavitt — cosponsor (person)
• Ramel — cosponsor (person)
• Reed — cosponsor (person)
• Reeves — cosponsor (person)
• Rule — cosponsor (person)
• Senn — cosponsor (person)
• Stonier — cosponsor (person)
• Tharinger — cosponsor (person)
• Timmons — cosponsor (person)
• Wylie — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-04 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.
• 2024-01-12 Executive action taken in the House Committee on Early Learning & Human Services at 8:00 AM.
• 2024-01-12 HSEL - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. substitution
• 2024-01-12 Minority; without recommendation. committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2024-01-17 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; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. substitution
• 2024-02-05 Minority; without recommendation. committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2024-02-05 Referred to Rules 2 Review. referral-committee
• 2024-02-10 Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. reading-2
• 2024-02-13 2nd substitute bill substituted (APP 24). substitution
• 2024-02-13 Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. reading-3
• 2024-02-13 Third reading, passed; yeas, 74; nays, 22; absent, 0; excused, 2. reading-3
• 2024-02-15 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 And refer to Ways & Means. referral-committee
• 2024-02-21 Minority; do not pass. committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2024-02-21 Minority; without recommendation. committee-passage-unfavorable
• 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 with amendment(s) by Early Learning & K-12 Education. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-26 Minority; do not pass. committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2024-02-26 Minority; without recommendation. committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2024-02-26 Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
• 2024-02-27 Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. reading-2
• 2024-02-28 Committee amendment(s) adopted with no other amendments.
• 2024-02-28 Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. reading-3
• 2024-02-28 Third reading, passed; yeas, 39; nays, 8; absent, 0; excused, 2. reading-3
• 2024-03-05 House concurred in Senate amendments.
• 2024-03-05 Passed final passage; yeas, 86; nays, 7; absent, 0; excused, 4. passage
• 2024-03-06 Speaker signed. passage
• 2024-03-07 President signed. passage
• 2024-03-07 Delivered to Governor. executive-receipt
• 2024-03-26 Governor signed. executive-signature
• 2024-03-26 Chapter 282, 2024 Laws. became-law
• 2024-03-26 Effective date 11/1/2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b6cf90c6-c7ab-4b25-bbc4-2f1fc8824c1f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).