republic-os/legislation/us/states/wa/2025-2026/hb-1686.md

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Bill	Creating a health care entity registry.	Creating a health care entity registry.	us/states/wa	Washington Legislature	2025-2026	HB 1686	Washington HB 1686 (2025-2026)	bill		enacted	Bronoske	5	38	2	2025-01-29	2025-04-22	openstates	ocd-bill/9d481b78-cb12-4ecf-b9a4-43e18fdc0541	https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=1686&Year=2025&Initiative=false	752c117f645f15b173ca16ab4291086caee76186f12577e1e28460484a322f05	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wa

Washington HB 1686 (2025-2026) — Creating a health care entity registry.

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 (#2) — 86–7 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#23) — 49–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bronoske — primary (person)
• Fosse — cosponsor (person)
• Hill — cosponsor (person)
• Macri — cosponsor (person)
• Nance — cosponsor (person)
• Reed — cosponsor (person)
• Scott — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-29 First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness. reading-1
• 2025-02-12 Public hearing in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 1:30 PM.
• 2025-02-21 Executive action taken in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 8:00 AM.
• 2025-02-21 HCW - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. substitution
• 2025-02-21 Minority; without recommendation. committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2025-02-21 Referred to Appropriations. referral-committee
• 2025-02-25 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; do not pass. committee-passage-unfavorable
• 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
• 2025-03-10 2nd substitute bill substituted (APP 25). substitution
• 2025-03-10 Floor amendment(s) adopted.
• 2025-03-10 Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. reading-3
• 2025-03-10 Third reading, passed; yeas, 86; nays, 7; absent, 0; excused, 5. reading-3
• 2025-03-12 First reading, referred to Health & Long-Term Care. reading-1
• 2025-03-18 Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Health & Long-Term Care at 10:30 AM.
• 2025-03-20 Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Health & Long-Term Care at 8:00 AM.
• 2025-03-20 HLTC - Majority; do pass. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-20 Minority; without recommendation. committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2025-03-20 And refer to Ways & Means. referral-committee
• 2025-03-21 Referred to Ways & Means. referral-committee
• 2025-04-03 Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 1:30 PM.
• 2025-04-07 Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 1:30 PM.
• 2025-04-07 WM - Majority; do pass. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-07 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
• 2025-04-14 Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. reading-3
• 2025-04-14 Third reading, passed; yeas, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. reading-3
• 2025-04-15 Speaker signed. passage
• 2025-04-16 President signed. passage
• 2025-04-17 Delivered to Governor. executive-receipt
• 2025-04-22 Governor signed. executive-signature
• 2025-04-22 Chapter 142, 2025 Laws. became-law
• 2025-04-22 Effective date 7/27/2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9d481b78-cb12-4ecf-b9a4-43e18fdc0541. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).