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WashingtonHB 20342025-2026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

Concerning termination and restatement of plan 1 of the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system.

Sponsored By: Timm Ormsby (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

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58 provisions identified: 25 benefits, 12 costs, 21 mixed.

Disability pay supports officers unable to work

Members can qualify for duty or nonduty disability retirement at any age or service length. The disability must continuously prevent covered work after service ends, and applications are due within one year. Members found unfit receive full salary and active-worker benefits for the first six months after service ends. A disability expected to last at least six months allows members to waive leave and seek immediate retirement approval. Local disability boards act on claims, and the retirement director must approve retirement. Each county and city with at least 20,000 people must have a five-member board; existing first-class-city pension boards continue. If an allowance ends for reasons other than returning to service or taking service retirement, the beneficiary gets contributions exceeding payments already made on their behalf.

Work-related deaths bring benefits for survivors

A covered member's death from a work injury or qualifying occupational disease or infection carries a $214,000 base death benefit. Each July 1 since 2010, Seattle-area inflation adjustments use the 2008 index, subject to statutory 3% limits. The benefit cannot fall below $214,000, and there is no claim deadline. Labor and Industries reviews eligibility, including beneficiaries denied solely for missing the workers' compensation claim deadline. Eligible previously denied beneficiaries can choose an ongoing pension paid back to the member's death. Survivor pensions under the restated chapter for line-of-duty deaths must follow the federal public-safety survivor tax rule.

Monthly pension help for surviving officer families

Eligible families receive monthly benefits after covered duty-connected or nonduty deaths. Covered statuses include active membership, vesting with at least twenty years, disability leave, and the specified retirement statuses. Duty coverage also includes qualifying wartime National Guard or military-reserve service. For an active member, a spouse receives 50% of final average salary, plus 5% per eligible child, capped at 60%. Other covered statuses use the applicable salary or retirement-allowance basis. Without an eligible spouse, children receive 30% for one child, plus 10% for each additional child, capped at 60%. Spouses of vested or retired members generally need one year of marriage before retirement or separation. Duty-related exceptions protect spouses married when disability began or qualifying wartime service started; eligible children must meet the law’s child definition. Under the nonduty rule, spouses who remarry after June 13, 2002, keep benefits.

One-time pension payments for eligible officers

People eligible for Plan 1 benefits on June 9, 2022, qualify for $100 per service-credit month. Line-of-duty disability retirees qualify for the greater of that amount or $20,000. The payment deadline was January 31, 2023, except active and term-vested members receive payment at service or disability retirement. Their payments earn interest from January 1, 2023, until distribution. Term-vested members need five service years, no withdrawn contributions, and no retirement application. Eligible survivors or beneficiaries receive deceased members’ payments under the chapter’s distribution rules.

Remarrying pension survivors can receive lump sums

An eligible surviving spouse of a covered officer or firefighter can receive a one-time payment upon remarriage. The payment is the lower of 36 times the spouse’s monthly compensation rate or 50% of the pension’s remaining annuity value. The monthly rate is measured on the remarriage date.

Special pension payments for qualifying spouses

Beginning August 1, 2015, qualifying surviving spouses receive two-thirds of the deceased retiree’s gross monthly pension at death. The spouse must have qualified for the specified survivor option, but the retiree must not have selected it. The spouse also must have exhausted administrative remedies to establish eligibility before March 1, 2015.

New fund backs officer retirement checks

Beginning June 30, 2029, a new state-held fund backs the restated officer and firefighter pension system. The transfer equals 110% of the value of fully projected benefits; remaining assets enter a separate surplus account. Contributions received follow state funding rules, and the fund receives investment earnings based on its average daily balance. Spending requires retirement department approval and must serve the restated system. Trust-fund interest can cover lawful legal and medical costs, fraud investigations, and overpayment recovery. Administrative costs can also use interest during the 2025–2027 budget period; recovered money returns to the proper fund.

Age limits end some officers’ careers

Most covered members must retire on the first day of the month after turning 60. They cannot later work as officers or firefighters. Members employed in those jobs on March 1, 1970, are exempt. Elected or appointed sheriffs, police chiefs, and fire chiefs receive waivers for their current and succeeding terms. Restated-system employees are also excluded from the cited state protections against forced retirement based only on age.

Warrant officer service excluded from pensions

City, town, and code-city warrant officers cannot receive covered police and firefighter pension benefits based on warrant-officer service. The exclusion covers retirement, disability, and death benefits under the existing and restated retirement chapters. The law also excludes the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs from being an employer under the restated chapter. That employer exclusion does not itself specify a change to employee benefits or contributions.

Disability pensions carry payment and exam rules

Plan 1 disability pensions pay 50% of final average salary, plus 5% per eligible child, capped at 60%. Payments generally start after six months of disability leave and continue until recovery or death. Applications filed after that leave but within the one-year deadline receive payments back to the leave's end. For disabilities incurred in other employment, listed benefits available for the same disability reduce the pension. If disability ends after age 50, the member receives the higher disability or service pension. Members under 50 face periodic medical exams; those retired before July 26, 1981, face no more than two yearly.

Officer pensions continue with expanded vesting

The restated system begins June 30, 2029, keeping existing benefits except for added vesting benefits for nonvested members. Members with five service-credit years can retire at age 50; optional vesting requires leaving contributions in the fund. Monthly pensions use final average salary: 1% per service year for five to under ten years, 1.5% for ten to under twenty, and 2% for twenty or more. Members with fewer than five years receive 1% per year beginning four months after the allowance section takes effect. Death before age 50 generally brings a contribution refund with interest for members with fewer than twenty years. Members with twenty or more years can qualify for survivor benefits regardless of age at death. Returning to covered officer or firefighter work suspends the pension, restores membership and service credit, and requires contributions; later benefits can be recalculated.

Pension transfers permanently replace Plan 1 rights

Eligible members can transfer Plan 1 service to specified teachers’, public employees’, public safety, school employees’, or State Patrol plans. The choice is permanent and gives up all Plan 1 benefit rights. Members in eligible jobs on July 1, 1997, had a July 1, 1998, election deadline; others have one year after starting an eligible job. Withdrawn contributions must be restored with interest within the election period, subject to the stated late-payment option. Transfers include contributions and employer funding sufficient to avoid raising the receiving plan’s employer contribution rate.

Pension assets reserved before surplus moves

By December 31, 2028, the state actuary must calculate the present value of Plan 1’s fully projected benefits. On June 30, 2029, the treasurer transfers 110% of that value to the restated pension fund. Remaining assets stay invested in a pension surplus holding account until another law directs their use; further transfers can reconcile amounts. Reverted money must return with interest set by the retirement director if the IRS requires its return to Plan 1. If the actuary later finds a funding shortfall, the council must set state contributions to pay it off over reasonable periods.

Fallen first responders included in health rules

State health-benefit law includes officers and firefighters defined by the restated pension chapter as emergency personnel killed in the line of duty. Death must result from injuries sustained during employment. The Department of Labor and Industries makes that determination using workers’ compensation law. The definition change does not itself set a payment amount.

College fee relief for officer families

Eligible children and surviving spouses of covered officers and firefighters receive tuition, services, and activities fee relief. Coverage includes state and regional universities, The Evergreen State College, and community and technical colleges. The officer must have died or become totally disabled in the line of duty with a qualifying Washington agency or fire department. Children must begin study within ten years after high school graduation. For community and technical college waivers, total disability means permanent disability preventing any occupation or gainful work.

Former spouses keep qualifying survivor pension payments

A former spouse with a currently effective court-awarded pension share qualifies as a survivor and keeps that share after the member dies. For specified benefits resumed under a 2005 law, the first payment uses the pre-suspension amount without adjustment for the suspension period. That resumed-payment rule applies retroactively. In qualifying pre-retirement divorces, continued direct payments can last until the member’s eligible surviving spouse dies. A former spouse receiving the specified continued split benefit instead receives payments for that former spouse’s own lifetime.

Military service counts toward police pensions

Police and firefighter pension members receive credit for honorable U.S. military service if they were members when entering the armed services. The credit covers up to five years. It adds recognized pension service, but the provision does not specify its dollar value.

Pension exceptions carry into restated police pensions

A restriction on joining another public pension system does not bar membership in the restated chapter for specified benefit recipients. This exception covers people receiving retirement or disability allowances, or eligible for retirement allowances without having applied, from listed public systems. Members must still satisfy the restated chapter’s membership limits. People transferring city retirement credit to a city firefighter pension retain exceptions for the existing and restated police-firefighter systems and Social Security. Future membership decisions apply the 2012 eligibility law without contradicting prior final Washington Supreme Court decisions.

Police and firefighter retirees can buy annuities

At retirement, a Plan 1 member can buy a life annuity, providing payments for life based on the purchase amount. The minimum purchase is $25,000, paid in full through an eligible governmental-employer retirement-plan rollover or transfer. Members who retired before June 9, 2016, had a special purchase window from January 1 through June 1, 2017. That window has ended.

Workers keep pension credit during leave

Police and firefighter members keep full monthly service credit based on hours scheduled before qualifying furloughs or similar work reductions. Employer-approved paid leave also earns service credit. Paid leave for an elected union role counts when the union repays the employer and the bargaining agreement preserves seniority. Reported salary for that union leave cannot exceed the highest-paid job class covered by the agreement. For participating employees in listed retirement systems, salary-reduction-plan deductions do not lower the pay figure used to calculate pension benefits.

Yearly increases for eligible survivor benefits

The law provides yearly increases for death benefits paid under RCW 41.20.085. This applies only to benefits not tied to the current salary for the deceased member’s position. Increases follow the prior year’s Seattle-area Consumer Price Index increase, with a minimum of 2% each year.

Yearly inflation adjustments for police pensions

The law preserves yearly inflation adjustments for qualifying police and firefighter Plan 1 allowances paid for more than one year. This rule dates to April 1, 1971. It compares last year's Seattle-area price index with the index from the calendar year before retirement. Certain local police pensions for people who retired before the 1961 amendments receive cumulative yearly increases of at least 2%. Those local increases follow the prior year's Seattle-area inflation rate and start with the July payment.

Police and firefighter pensions stay protected

Covered retirement, disability, and death benefits, earned rights, and system funds are exempt from state and local taxes. They are generally protected from creditors, seizure, bankruptcy claims, and assignment. Exceptions remain for specified child-support, public-assistance, divorce, mandatory-assignment, and federally authorized orders. Retirement Systems can deduct insurance premiums after a written request; a child's legal guardian must request deductions for the child.

Tax deferral options for pension contributions

The law includes restated-plan members in its stated purpose of allowing federal tax deferral for retirement contributions. Employers may elect to treat all member contributions as employer-paid contributions under the applicable tax rules. This election is optional and does not itself promise extra take-home pay. Employers can withdraw or restart this arrangement only once per calendar year, with 45 days' notice to Retirement Systems.

Criminal conduct can bar disability pensions

Members cannot receive the listed disability retirement benefits when their disability results from their own criminal conduct. This bar applies to conduct committed after April 21, 1997.

Limits on officer pensions and credit

Annual pay counted toward Plan 1 benefits cannot exceed the applicable federal qualified-plan compensation limit. Members working for two covered employers in one month receive service credit from only one employer. Reserve officers cannot receive a chapter 41.24 pension benefit for service covered by the new retirement chapter. That exclusion does not remove benefits for other service.

Officer Social Security coverage needs termination vote

Covered officers and firefighters form a separate Social Security coverage group. A local government can end group coverage only through a referendum supervised by its legislative body. Members must receive at least 60 days’ notice, and a majority of the group must approve termination. The governor must receive written notice at least two years in advance. The law establishes this process; it does not itself end coverage.

Older pension top-up guarantee is removed

The law removes a prior pension top-up guarantee for officers and firefighters serving and contributing under an older pension act on March 1, 1970. That guarantee required comparing old-system and current-system benefits. The former system or employer paid any amount by which the old-system benefit was higher. The provision does not quantify any individual reduction; the law separately preserves existing benefit rights through the transition.

Retired judges pause pensions during firefighting work

Retired judges cannot collect monthly service or disability retirement allowances while working as covered police officers or firefighters. Payments resume when that employment ends. The retirement department recalculates the allowance under its actuarial rules.

Employer medical help carries coverage limits

Covered employers must pay for necessary, board-approved medical care for active or retired members when other sources do not pay. The disability board must find that the sickness or disability was not caused by dissipation or abuse. Available workers' compensation, Social Security, insurance, and similar payments reduce what the employer pays. Refusing a required board exam stops this medical benefit during the refusal; employers can recover payments from liable third parties. Employers may offer group health plans alone or jointly through insurers or other authorized health plans, but coverage is optional. Those plan benefits also reduce employer medical payments. Employers may reimburse retirees for Medicare-related insurance premiums, including Part B, but reimbursement is optional and has no stated amount.

Illness claim help with officer eligibility limits

Covered officers and firefighters receive workers’ compensation presumptions for specified lung, heart, cancer, infectious-disease, and post-traumatic stress conditions. Job, service, diagnosis, and examination requirements apply; specified cancer claims require at least ten years of service. These presumptions can be challenged by evidence showing the condition is more likely not work-related. Qualifying post-traumatic stress claims are allowed despite the usual exclusion for stress-related mental conditions. For hires after June 7, 2018, an employer-provided prehire exam must rule out PTSD from earlier exposures. That exam requirement does not apply when the employer provides no exam. PTSD caused directly by good-faith discipline, evaluation, transfer, layoff, demotion, termination, or similar employer actions is excluded.

Disability pensions stop after recovery or refusal

Disability leave payments end after a recovery finding during the initial six-month leave, with restoration to the former rank or position. After reexamination finds a beneficiary able to work, retirement payments end and the member returns to the former rank. If that rank’s duties remain beyond the member’s ability, an open suitable lower or similar rank is available on request. Restored pay cannot fall below the current salary of the former rank; return-to-service findings require notice and a hearing. Reentering covered service also ends the allowance; beneficiaries under 50 who refuse an exam lose payments during refusal, with cancellation after one year.

Former spouses receive court-ordered pension shares

Divorce or legal-separation orders can direct payment of restated pension benefits to a former spouse as a property division. The order must meet the applicable direct-payment requirements and specify the amount or percentage. The older-order process includes qualifying orders entered before July 1, 1987, and from that date through July 28, 1991. For that process, the recipient must file the order within 90 days of entry. The order cannot direct more than 75% of the retiree’s periodic payment; some older orders need modification to qualify.

Injured first responders face lawsuit limits

For covered officers and firefighters, retirement-chapter benefits generally replace lawsuits against government employers for work-related injury or sickness. Civil claims against those employers are barred except where the chapter allows them. Members or specified survivors can still sue when the employer’s intentional or negligent act or omission causes injury or death. Those claims seek damages above benefits received or available under the chapter.

Lower pension buys lifetime spouse protection

Members can choose a reduced pension to provide lifetime payments to a spouse otherwise ineligible for survivor benefits. Only the pension portion not owed through property division can fund this choice. The usual election window lasts one year, starting one year after marriage. Members married before the required 2005 rules had a one-year window after rule adoption. Members married for at least two years before September 1, 2015, had until September 1, 2016. If the spouse dies first, proof of death allows the retiree’s payment to increase under the statutory formula the following month.

More ways to restore pension credit

Members who missed service-credit deadlines can use the restoration process in RCW 41.50.165. It covers allowable membership service, withdrawn contributions, and service exchanged for a lump sum instead of benefits. Former members of covered city firefighter pension systems can credit prior fire service toward that city’s police pension. They must now work in the city’s police department and repay withdrawn contributions through the retirement system.

Officer contributions depend on pension funding

The stated Plan 1 contribution rate is 6% of basic salary for members and another 6% for employers. Neither must contribute after June 30, 2000, unless the latest valuation shows unfunded liabilities. The law confirms that suspension retroactively to June 30, 2000. Employers remit required contributions monthly.

Older police pension applicants face medical standards

Medical and health standards apply after February 19, 1974, but not to people first joining on or after July 1, 1979. The retirement director sets the standards; employers handle certification and pay for exams. Age-standard exceptions cover specified elected sheriffs and appointed chiefs; towns with no more than two officers and/or two firefighters can offer another available pension. Standards do not apply to continuing employees serving by August 1, 1971, specified promotions, rehires within six months, or reinstatements. A one-year age waiver after February 19, 1974, covers otherwise eligible prior police-pension members who restore withdrawn contributions.

Pension coverage rules for officers and firefighters

Full-time, fully paid Washington officers and firefighters employed on or after March 1, 1970, have covered service in this system. Covered service on or after October 1, 1977, belongs in Plan 2. Members contributing to a prior pension act on March 1, 1970, retain a separate prior-act benefit calculation. The prior system or employer pays any amount above this system’s benefit. For restated-system members, the cited local-government consolidation laws do not govern retirement rights; this provision names no replacement rights.

Pension refunds trade cash for benefit rights

Members leaving for reasons other than death, disability, or retirement can request contribution refunds, payable within 60 days after application. Taking a refund ends benefit rights, except for the referenced deferred-benefit choice for members with at least five years’ service. Returning members can restore withdrawn contributions within five years of service after returning to regain the related credit. After that window, a legally required payment before retirement can restore the credit. Members can also buy credit for earlier police or firefighter work lost through withdrawn contributions or work before joining the prior system.

Retiring officers can buy extra pension income

Eligible members can make one purchase of up to five years of extra credit when applying for retirement. The price equals the actuarial value of the added benefit. The purchase adds a monthly annuity, but does not count as membership service. Members can pay by lump sum or eligible retirement-account transfers, following department rules and federal tax requirements.

Returning public workers face pension limits

Covered reemployment rules include officer and firefighter jobs defined in the new retirement chapter. Applicable exceptions generally allow 867 hours per calendar year without stopping benefits after a one-calendar-month break. Earlier returns can reduce monthly benefits by 5.5% per seven hours in the teachers’ system. School employee and public safety plans use 5.5% per eight hours, subject to plan-specific monthly caps. Public employees’ Plan 2 and Plan 3 benefits generally stop during eligible work unless an exception applies, then restart afterward.

Official-duty driving stays off insurance reports

Driving-record reports sent to insurers must exclude covered officers' and firefighters' actions while driving official vehicles for work. The exclusion does not cover vehicles used to commit a misdemeanor or felony. The law does not guarantee lower insurance premiums.

Bargaining coverage includes restated pension workers

Officers and firefighters defined in the new chapter count as uniformed personnel under Washington’s public employee bargaining law. Existing officer and firefighter definitions remain covered. This classification determines their coverage under those bargaining rules.

Police and firefighter pensions continue through transition

Washington ends and restates its law enforcement officers’ and firefighters’ Plan 1 pension system on June 30, 2029. Existing members transfer to the restated system. Members, retirees, and surviving beneficiaries keep their existing benefits without interruption. Membership remains limited to people who belonged to Plan 1 before the transition.

Local pension boards gain backup members

Local firefighter pension boards can elect active or retired firefighters from the restated system when no ordinarily eligible firefighter can serve. Police pension boards gain fallback choices when no eligible active or retired department member can serve. Those choices include active or retired officers living within the board’s area, including officers covered by the restated system. A widow or widower of an officer subject to the police board can also serve through this fallback. These changes do not alter pension benefits.

Public safety insurance transfers require bargaining rules

Specified transfers to state-administered insurance, self-insurance, or health care programs must follow public-employee collective bargaining law. This applies to transfers authorized by the existing insurance-transfer statute involving members covered by the restated pension chapter. The provision does not change stated coverage levels or premiums.

State agencies manage restated public safety pensions

The Department of Retirement Systems runs the restated police and firefighter pension system, including its benefit fund and surplus account. Its duties include pension calculations, rules, reports, interest crediting, and disability-benefit administration. The existing treasury fund provision covers Plan 2, rather than a separate Plan 1 fund. The State Investment Board invests funds for both the existing and restated systems. These assignments do not themselves change individual benefit amounts.

State covers qualifying local injury costs

The state reimburses cities and counties for qualifying pension-system costs caused by physical injuries during approved contingency-plan work. Reimbursement depends on injury location, requested assistance, and compliance with orders. Payments go to local governments, not directly to households.

Pension challenges face a firm filing deadline

Beginning June 11, 2026, challenges to the core pension termination and restatement provisions face a special filing deadline. Claims must be filed before December 31, 2027, or they are permanently barred. An earlier applicable time limit can bar a claim sooner. These claims go directly to the Washington Supreme Court for review.

Driving-record requests cost two dollars more

Beginning July 1, 2029, the Department of Licensing charges an extra $2 for each driving-record report it provides. The added fee goes into the Move Ahead WA flexible account.

Felony penalties target pension record fraud

Employers, members, and beneficiaries commit a class B felony by knowingly making false statements to defraud the retirement system. Knowingly falsifying records, or permitting their falsification, for that purpose is also covered.

Employers fund school and public safety pensions

The council must set employer contribution rates for the school employees’ and public safety employees’ retirement systems. These payments fund those systems and Public Employees’ Retirement System Plan 1. Rates are set every two years, with annual contributions allowed within a rate-setting period. The law does not specify the resulting rates or payment amounts.

Public employers pay pension administration costs

Participating employers pay the restated pension system’s administrative costs through the retirement department’s expense fund. Each employer’s share follows its members’ monthly salaries compared with total system salaries. Employers must also submit all member data in the department’s required format. Employers that fail to comply face an additional reporting fee. These duties and fees apply to employers, not individual members.

Restated pensions keep separate creditor protections

The restated pension chapter is excluded from the state’s employee-benefit-plan definition used for creditor protections. Protections tied to that definition therefore do not apply. The retirement chapter separately protects benefits from seizure, attachment, and garnishment. Child-support enforcement and specified domestic-relations orders remain exceptions, so this exclusion does not remove all pension protections.

Historic Seattle police pension credit limited

Active retirement-system members can receive credit for at least 10 years in Seattle's police relief and pension fund. They must have withdrawn their contributions before July 1, 1961. Anyone who ever joined either the original or restated police and firefighter retirement system is excluded. The credit remains subject to the referenced public-employee service-credit rules.

Cities keep funding older pension promises

Municipalities must continue the required dollar-rate levy for older firefighter pension benefits. Existing firefighter and police relief and pension funds remain available to pay their obligations. Cities continue paying covered older police pension obligations from existing funding sources. No levy increase or household tax amount is specified.

Cities can keep firefighter pension levies

A municipality can keep all or part of its additional levy after its older firefighter pension beneficiaries are gone. This authority lasts while beneficiaries covered by the act's specified benefit provision remain. Levy money must pay those benefits first; remaining money can fund another municipal purpose. The law states no levy rate or household tax amount.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Timm Ormsby

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

  • Joe Fitzgibbon

    Democratic • House

  • Mia Gregerson

    Democratic • House

  • Nicole Macri

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 498 • No: 485

House vote • 3/12/2026

Final Passage as Amended by the Senate

Yes: 50 • No: 46 • Other: 2

Senate vote • 3/6/2026

3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate

Yes: 25 • No: 22 • Other: 1

House vote • 2/13/2026

1706 Fitzgibbon Pg 166 Ln 12

Yes: 93 • No: 0 • Other: 5

House vote • 2/13/2026

3rd Reading & Final Passage

Yes: 55 • No: 39 • Other: 4

House vote • 2/13/2026

1769 Dye Pg 4 Ln 33

Yes: 41 • No: 53 • Other: 4

House vote • 2/13/2026

1770 Jacobsen Pg 4 Ln 33

Yes: 42 • No: 52 • Other: 4

House vote • 2/13/2026

1771 Keaton Pg 4 Ln 34

Yes: 38 • No: 55 • Other: 5

House vote • 2/13/2026

1772 Schmick Pg 4 Ln 34

Yes: 39 • No: 54 • Other: 5

House vote • 2/13/2026

1774 Griffey Pg 4 Ln 34

Yes: 40 • No: 53 • Other: 5

House vote • 2/13/2026

1775 Burnett Pg 19 Ln 14

Yes: 38 • No: 55 • Other: 5

House vote • 2/13/2026

1773 Barkis Pg 4 Ln 34

Yes: 37 • No: 56 • Other: 5

Actions Timeline

  1. Effective date 6/30/2029*.

    4/1/2026House

  2. Chapter 261, 2026 Laws.

    4/1/2026House

  3. Governor signed.

    4/1/2026legislature

  4. Delivered to Governor.

    3/12/2026legislature

  5. Speaker signed.

    3/12/2026legislature

  6. President signed.

    3/12/2026legislature

  7. Passed final passage; yeas, 50; nays, 46; absent, 0; excused, 2.

    3/12/2026House

  8. House concurred in Senate amendments.

    3/12/2026House

  9. Third reading, passed; yeas, 25; nays, 22; absent, 1; excused, 1.

    3/6/2026House

  10. Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.

    3/6/2026House

  11. Committee amendment(s) adopted as amended.

    3/6/2026House

  12. Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.

    3/5/2026House

  13. Minority; without recommendation.

    3/2/2026House

  14. Minority; do not pass.

    3/2/2026House

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

    3/2/2026House

  16. Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.

    3/2/2026House

  17. First reading, referred to Ways & Means.

    2/17/2026House

  18. Third reading, passed; yeas, 55; nays, 39; absent, 0; excused, 4.

    2/13/2026House

  19. Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.

    2/13/2026House

  20. Floor amendment(s) adopted.

    2/13/2026House

  21. 2nd substitute bill substituted.

    2/13/2026House

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

    2/11/2026House

  23. Referred to Rules 2 Review.

    2/9/2026House

  24. APP - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass.

    2/7/2026House

  25. Minority; do not pass.

    2/7/2026House

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