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WashingtonHB 19412025-2026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

Authorizing agricultural cooperatives for cannabis producers.

Sponsored By: Melanie Morgan (Democratic)

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

5 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 2 costs, 2 mixed.

Cap at five retail licenses

The law caps ownership of retail cannabis stores. One owner and all linked investors together may not control more than five retail licenses. You also cannot use management or similar agreements to gain a financial interest across more than five stores. Profit sharing, shared branding, coordinated pricing, or joint hiring can count as a financial interest.

Set fees for cannabis licenses

The law sets cannabis license fees. You pay $250 to apply for each producer, processor, or retailer license. You also pay $1,381 each year to issue or renew each license. You need a separate license for every location you operate or sell, so multiply these fees by your number of locations.

Retail licenses: 24-month open rule, protections

The board sets a forfeiture process for retail licenses that are not open. No retail license is subject to forfeiture in the first 9 months after it is issued. If a store is not fully operational and open by 24 months after issuance, the license must be forfeited unless delays are beyond the owner’s control. Local bans, moratoria, zoning or business rules, or permit denials that block opening protect the licensee from forfeiture.

Patients can buy clones and seeds

Qualifying medical cannabis patients and designated providers can buy immature plants, clones, and seeds from licensed producers. Sales must follow the rules in RCW 69.51A.310. This helps patients start plants for personal medical use.

Allow cannabis producer co-ops with limits

The law treats cannabis as an agricultural product for licensed producers under RCW 24.34.010. Producers may form associations or cooperatives to process, handle, and market their products. Co-ops must run for members’ benefit and either give each member one vote or cap dividends at 8% a year. A co-op may not handle more nonmember product than member product, and it cannot represent more than three producer licenses at a time. Licensed producers may sell immature plants, clones, and seeds to legal cooperatives under RCW 69.51A.250.

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Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Melanie Morgan

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

  • Beth Doglio

    Democratic • House

  • Julia Reed

    Democratic • House

  • Lisa Parshley

    Democratic • House

  • Natasha Hill

    Democratic • House

  • Sharon Wylie

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 165 • No: 71

House vote • 3/12/2026

Final Passage as Amended by the Senate

Yes: 69 • No: 26 • Other: 3

Senate vote • 3/5/2026

3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate

Yes: 30 • No: 18 • Other: 1

House vote • 2/13/2026

3rd Reading & Final Passage

Yes: 66 • No: 27 • Other: 5

Actions Timeline

  1. Effective date 6/11/2026.

    3/25/2026House

  2. Chapter 218, 2026 Laws.

    3/25/2026House

  3. Governor signed.

    3/25/2026legislature

  4. Delivered to Governor.

    3/12/2026legislature

  5. Speaker signed.

    3/12/2026legislature

  6. President signed.

    3/12/2026legislature

  7. Passed final passage; yeas, 69; nays, 26; absent, 0; excused, 3.

    3/12/2026House

  8. House concurred in Senate amendments.

    3/12/2026House

  9. Third reading, passed; yeas, 30; nays, 18; absent, 0; excused, 1.

    3/5/2026House

  10. Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.

    3/5/2026House

  11. Committee amendment(s) adopted with no other amendments.

    3/5/2026House

  12. Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.

    3/3/2026House

  13. Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.

    2/25/2026House

  14. Minority; without recommendation.

    2/24/2026House

  15. Minority; do not pass.

    2/24/2026House

  16. LC - Majority; do pass with amendment(s).

    2/24/2026House

  17. First reading, referred to Labor & Commerce.

    2/17/2026House

  18. Third reading, passed; yeas, 66; nays, 27; absent, 0; excused, 5.

    2/13/2026House

  19. Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.

    2/13/2026House

  20. Floor amendment(s) adopted.

    2/13/2026House

  21. Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading.

    2/11/2026House

  22. Referred to Rules 2 Review.

    1/22/2026House

  23. Minority; without recommendation.

    1/20/2026House

  24. Minority; do not pass.

    1/20/2026House

  25. AGNR - Majority; do pass.

    1/20/2026House

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