Bill Commons

WA HB 1706

enacted

Aligning the implementation of application programming interfaces for prior authorization with federal guidelines.

Washington · 2026 Regular Session · lower

Introduced
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Status date
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Latest action
2025-04-07 — Effective date 7/27/2025.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Sponsors

  • Simmonsprimary

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-01-29

    First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness.

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  2. 2025-02-11

    Public hearing in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 1:30 PM.

  3. 2025-02-19

    Executive action taken in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 1:30 PM.

  4. 2025-02-19

    HCW - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.

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  5. 2025-02-21

    Referred to Rules 2 Review.

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  6. 2025-02-28

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

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  7. 2025-03-04

    1st substitute bill substituted (HCW 25).

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  8. 2025-03-04

    Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.

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  9. 2025-03-04

    Third reading, passed; yeas, 97; nays, 0; absent, 1; excused, 0.

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  10. 2025-03-06

    First reading, referred to Health & Long-Term Care.

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  11. 2025-03-13

    Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Health & Long-Term Care at 8:00 AM.

  12. 2025-03-14

    Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Health & Long-Term Care at 8:00 AM.

  13. 2025-03-14

    HLTC - Majority; do pass.

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  14. 2025-03-17

    Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.

  15. 2025-03-21

    Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.

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  16. 2025-03-26

    Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.

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  17. 2025-03-26

    Third reading, passed; yeas, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0.

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  18. 2025-03-31

    Speaker signed.

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  19. 2025-03-31

    President signed.

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  20. 2025-04-02

    Delivered to Governor.

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  21. 2025-04-07

    Governor signed.

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  22. 2025-04-07

    Chapter 25, 2025 Laws.

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  23. 2025-04-07

    Effective date 7/27/2025.

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Versions

Documents

Votes

  • 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#10)

    2025-03-04 · pass · 97-0

    Member-level votes (98)
    • Abbarno: yes
    • Abell: yes
    • Barkis: yes
    • Barnard: yes
    • Berg: yes
    • Bergquist: yes
    • Bernbaum: yes
    • Berry: yes
    • Bronoske: yes
    • Burnett: yes
    • Callan: yes
    • Chase: yes
    • Connors: yes
    • Corry: yes
    • Cortes: yes
    • Couture: yes
    • Davis: yes
    • Dent: yes
    • Doglio: yes
    • Donaghy: yes
    • Duerr: yes
    • Dufault: yes
    • Dye: yes
    • Engell: yes
    • Entenman: yes
    • Eslick: yes
    • Farivar: yes
    • Fey: yes
    • Fitzgibbon: yes
    • Fosse: yes
    • Goodman: yes
    • Graham: yes
    • Gregerson: yes
    • Griffey: yes
    • Hackney: other
    • Hill: yes
    • Hunt: yes
    • Jacobsen: yes
    • Jinkins: yes
    • Keaton: yes
    • Klicker: yes
    • Kloba: yes
    • Leavitt: yes
    • Lekanoff: yes
    • Ley: yes
    • Low: yes
    • Macri: yes
    • Manjarrez: yes
    • Marshall: yes
    • McClintock: yes
    • McEntire: yes
    • Mena: yes
    • Mendoza: yes
    • Morgan: yes
    • Nance: yes
    • Obras: yes
    • Orcutt: yes
    • Ormsby: yes
    • Ortiz-Self: yes
    • Parshley: yes
    • Paul: yes
    • Penner: yes
    • Peterson: yes
    • Pollet: yes
    • Ramel: yes
    • Reed: yes
    • Reeves: yes
    • Richards: yes
    • Rude: yes
    • Rule: yes
    • Ryu: yes
    • Salahuddin: yes
    • Santos: yes
    • Schmick: yes
    • Schmidt: yes
    • Scott: yes
    • Shavers: yes
    • Simmons: yes
    • Springer: yes
    • Stearns: yes
    • Steele: yes
    • Stokesbary: yes
    • Stonier: yes
    • Street: yes
    • Stuebe: yes
    • Taylor: yes
    • Thai: yes
    • Tharinger: yes
    • Thomas: yes
    • Timmons: yes
    • Valdez: yes
    • Volz: yes
    • Walen: yes
    • Walsh: yes
    • Waters: yes
    • Wylie: yes
    • Ybarra: yes
    • Zahn: yes

  • 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#30)

    2025-03-26 · pass · 49-0

    Member-level votes (49)
    • Alvarado: yes
    • Bateman: yes
    • Boehnke: yes
    • Braun: yes
    • Chapman: yes
    • Christian: yes
    • Cleveland: yes
    • Conway: yes
    • Cortes: yes
    • Dhingra: yes
    • Dozier: yes
    • Fortunato: yes
    • Frame: yes
    • Gildon: yes
    • Goehner: yes
    • Hansen: yes
    • Harris: yes
    • Hasegawa: yes
    • Holy: yes
    • Kauffman: yes
    • King: yes
    • Krishnadasan: yes
    • Liias: yes
    • Lovelett: yes
    • Lovick: yes
    • MacEwen: yes
    • McCune: yes
    • Muzzall: yes
    • Nobles: yes
    • Orwall: yes
    • Pedersen: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Riccelli: yes
    • Robinson: yes
    • Saldaña: yes
    • Salomon: yes
    • Schoesler: yes
    • Shewmake: yes
    • Short: yes
    • Slatter: yes
    • Stanford: yes
    • Torres: yes
    • Trudeau: yes
    • Valdez: yes
    • Wagoner: yes
    • Warnick: yes
    • Wellman: yes
    • Wilson, C.: yes
    • Wilson, J.: yes

Related bills

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Official source

https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=1706&Year=2025&Initiative=false

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