republic-os/legislation/us/states/wa/2025-2026/hb-1563.md

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Bill	Establishing a prescribed fire claims fund pilot program.	Establishing a prescribed fire claims fund pilot program.	us/states/wa	Washington Legislature	2025-2026	HB 1563	Washington HB 1563 (2025-2026)	bill		enacted	Bernbaum	5	36	2	2025-01-23	2025-04-21	openstates	ocd-bill/f111f459-1477-46c5-a8fd-5ea4357148b3	https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=1563&Year=2025&Initiative=false	6df3a4419be340a1194d2822bd1392b3e7beb9b077e5c52108f65b72ba49a9af	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wa

Washington HB 1563 (2025-2026) — Establishing a prescribed fire claims fund pilot program.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#10) — 48–1 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#10) — 96–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bernbaum — primary (person)
• Berry — cosponsor (person)
• Cortes — cosponsor (person)
• Couture — cosponsor (person)
• Dent — cosponsor (person)
• Fitzgibbon — cosponsor (person)
• Griffey — cosponsor (person)
• Hackney — cosponsor (person)
• Hill — cosponsor (person)
• Leavitt — cosponsor (person)
• Lekanoff — cosponsor (person)
• McClintock — cosponsor (person)
• Nance — cosponsor (person)
• Obras — cosponsor (person)
• Orcutt — cosponsor (person)
• Paul — cosponsor (person)
• Reed — cosponsor (person)
• Reeves — cosponsor (person)
• Scott — cosponsor (person)
• Springer — cosponsor (person)
• Tharinger — cosponsor (person)
• Timmons — cosponsor (person)
• Ybarra — cosponsor (person)
• Zahn — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-23 First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources. reading-1
• 2025-02-12 Public hearing in the House Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources at 8:00 AM.
• 2025-02-14 Executive session scheduled, but no action was taken in the House Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources at 10:30 AM.
• 2025-02-18 Executive action taken in the House Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources at 10:30 AM.
• 2025-02-18 AGNR - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. substitution
• 2025-02-18 Minority; without recommendation. committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2025-02-20 Referred to Appropriations. referral-committee
• 2025-02-24 Public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 1:30 PM.
• 2025-02-27 Executive action taken in the House Committee on Appropriations at 9:00 AM.
• 2025-02-27 APP - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. substitution
• 2025-02-27 Minority; without recommendation. committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2025-02-28 Referred to Rules 2 Review. referral-committee
• 2025-03-06 Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. reading-2
• 2025-03-07 2nd substitute bill substituted (APP 25). substitution
• 2025-03-07 Floor amendment(s) adopted.
• 2025-03-07 Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. reading-3
• 2025-03-07 Third reading, passed; yeas, 96; nays, 1; absent, 0; excused, 1. reading-3
• 2025-03-11 First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources. reading-1
• 2025-03-17 Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources at 1:30 PM.
• 2025-03-24 Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources at 1:30 PM.
• 2025-03-24 ANR - Majority; do pass. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-25 On motion, referred to Ways & Means.
• 2025-04-03 Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 1:30 PM.
• 2025-04-08 Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 1:30 PM.
• 2025-04-08 WM - Majority; do pass. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-08 Minority; without recommendation. committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2025-04-08 Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
• 2025-04-09 Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. reading-2
• 2025-04-11 Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. reading-3
• 2025-04-11 Third reading, passed; yeas, 48; nays, 1; absent, 0; excused, 0. reading-3
• 2025-04-11 Speaker signed. passage
• 2025-04-14 President signed. passage
• 2025-04-16 Delivered to Governor. executive-receipt
• 2025-04-21 Governor signed. executive-signature
• 2025-04-21 Chapter 93, 2025 Laws. became-law
• 2025-04-21 Effective date 4/21/2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f111f459-1477-46c5-a8fd-5ea4357148b3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).