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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Updating timber sale process efficiencies and adopting consistent language for the department's land sales."
description: "Updating timber sale process efficiencies and adopting consistent language for the department's land sales."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "HB 2348"
citation: "Washington HB 2348 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dent"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-01-09"
last_action: "2026-03-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b7d0413a-4391-46ca-888c-da55e254a86e"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=2348&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "ebdc9ea3a189886853d67ff1869940a443f3cac1e6405d9222720972e1764f94"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wa"]
---
# Washington HB 2348 (2025-2026) — Updating timber sale process efficiencies and adopting consistent language for the department's land sales.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/2348.htm)
2. **Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/2348.PL.htm)
## Votes
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#29) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#7) — **48–0** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Dent — primary (person)
- Reeves — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2026-01-09** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
- **2026-01-12** First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources. `reading-1`
- **2026-01-23** Public hearing in the House Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources at 10:30 AM.
- **2026-02-03** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources at 10:30 AM.
- **2026-02-03** AGNR - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-04** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-11** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2026-02-12** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2026-02-12** Third reading, passed; yeas, 95; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 3. `reading-3`
- **2026-02-16** First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources. `reading-1`
- **2026-02-23** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources at 1:30 PM.
- **2026-02-23** ANR - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-24** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2026-02-27** Placed on second reading consent calendar. `reading-2`
- **2026-03-04** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2026-03-04** Third reading, passed; yeas, 48; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2026-03-05** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2026-03-06** President signed. `passage`
- **2026-03-06** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-20** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-20** Chapter 116, 2026 Laws. `became-law`
- **2026-03-20** Effective date 6/11/2026. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b7d0413a-4391-46ca-888c-da55e254a86e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).