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WashingtonSB 54032025-2026 Regular SessionSenateWALLET

Allowing direct to consumer sales of certain cannabis products.

Sponsored By: Rebecca Saldaña (Democratic)

Became Law

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

5 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 2 costs, 3 mixed.

Fees for cannabis business licenses

You pay $250 to apply for each producer, processor, or retailer license. You pay $1,381 each year for each license you hold. Fees apply per location. Beginning January 1, 2026.

Limits on owning cannabis stores

No person or connected group may hold more than five retail cannabis licenses. You also cannot use management or other deals to gain a financial interest across more than five licenses. Financial interest includes profit sharing, coordinated pricing or purchasing, shared brands or IP, shared operations, shared marketing, or shared hiring. Beginning January 1, 2026.

Licenses and protections for cannabis businesses

The law creates producer, processor, and retailer licenses. Producer licenses let you grow cannabis for wholesale and sell immature plants or seeds to cooperatives and qualifying patients or designated providers. Processor licenses let you process, package, and label products for wholesale. Retailer licenses let you sell cannabis products in stores. Each license must list a Washington location, cannot be used by another person, and each site needs its own license. If you hold a valid license and follow the rules, these activities are not crimes or civil offenses. Beginning January 1, 2026.

Deadlines to open cannabis stores

The board sets rules to cancel retail licenses that are not fully open. No cancellation can happen in the first 9 months after a license is issued. If a store is still not fully open by 24 months, the board must cancel the license unless delays were beyond your control. The board cannot take your license if a city, town, or county blocks you with a ban, moratorium, or zoning or permit rules. Beginning January 1, 2026.

When these cannabis rules apply

These rules apply to agreements made before January 1, 2026 and to agreements made or renewed on or after that date. The law takes effect January 1, 2026.

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Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Rebecca Saldaña

    Democratic • Senate

Cosponsors

  • Deborah Krishnadasan

    Democratic • Senate

  • T'wina Nobles

    Democratic • Senate

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 137 • No: 53

Senate vote • 4/18/2025

Final Passage as Amended by the House

Yes: 39 • No: 9 • Other: 1

House vote • 4/11/2025

Final Passage as Amended by the House

Yes: 57 • No: 37 • Other: 4

Senate vote • 3/12/2025

3rd Reading & Final Passage

Yes: 41 • No: 7 • Other: 1

Actions Timeline

  1. Effective date 1/1/2026.

    5/12/2025Senate

  2. Chapter 250, 2025 Laws.

    5/12/2025Senate

  3. Governor signed.

    5/12/2025legislature

  4. Delivered to Governor.

    4/23/2025legislature

  5. Speaker signed.

    4/22/2025legislature

  6. President signed.

    4/19/2025legislature

  7. Passed final passage; yeas, 39; nays, 9; absent, 0; excused, 1.

    4/18/2025Senate

  8. Senate concurred in House amendments.

    4/18/2025House

  9. Third reading, passed; yeas, 57; nays, 37; absent, 0; excused, 4.

    4/11/2025Senate

  10. Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.

    4/11/2025Senate

  11. Committee amendment(s) adopted as amended.

    4/11/2025Senate

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

    4/8/2025Senate

  13. Referred to Rules 2 Review.

    4/2/2025Senate

  14. Minority; without recommendation.

    4/1/2025Senate

  15. CPB - Majority; do pass with amendment(s).

    4/1/2025Senate

  16. CPB - Executive action taken by committee.

    4/1/2025Senate

  17. First reading, referred to Consumer Protection & Business.

    3/14/2025Senate

  18. Third reading, passed; yeas, 41; nays, 7; absent, 0; excused, 1.

    3/12/2025Senate

  19. Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.

    3/12/2025Senate

  20. Floor amendment(s) adopted.

    3/12/2025Senate

  21. 1st substitute bill substituted.

    3/12/2025Senate

  22. Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.

    3/10/2025Senate

  23. Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.

    2/21/2025Senate

  24. Minority; without recommendation.

    2/21/2025Senate

  25. Minority; do not pass.

    2/21/2025Senate

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