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3SHB 1662 — Education agencies/OSPI

3SHB 1662 was introduced in the 2025-26 Washington legislative session by Representative Santos. It has had 3 public hearings and is still before the Legislature.

  • 2025-26 session
  • House
  • Still before the Legislature
  • 3 public hearings
  • Sponsor: ED(Santos

Source Washington State Legislature web services: legislation, hearings and roll calls · as of 2026-09-09 · introduced 2026-01-27

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Where it stopped

Pending

Last recorded action
Referred to Appropriations.
Position
H Approps — the Legislature's own location code
Last committee
House Education — the last committee with this bill on an agenda
Public hearing
Yes — 3 on record — a public hearing is where testimony is taken; an executive session is where a committee votes

This session is still sitting. The 2025-26 biennium has not ended, so we will not say this bill died. A bill sitting in Rules today may move next month.

Last checked 2026-09-09

Source WA Legislature bill history — every row links to the chamber record that establishes it · as of 2026-09-09 · how a stop point is read

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What it would do

The Legislature’s own description. We do not paraphrase legislation.

Removing the requirement for certain education agencies to reside in the office of the superintendent of public instruction for administrative purposes and by making other necessary changes to support independent administration of each agency.

Legal title AN ACT Relating to promoting the efficiency and effectiveness of education agencies by removing the requirement for the state board of education, the Washington professional educator standards board, the Washington state charter school commission, and the financial education public-private partnership to reside in the office of the superintendent of public instruction for administrative purposes and by making other necessary changes to support independent administration of each agency;

Source WA Legislature bill digest and text, quoted whole · as of 2026-09-09 · edits none — we write no summary of our own

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The votes

Recorded floor votes. Committee votes are in the hearing record below.

No recorded floor vote. It has not yet reached a floor vote.

Last checked 2026-09-09

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Sponsors

Who put their name to the bill. The Legislature records a prime sponsor on the bill status; the full co-sponsor roster appears only in the introduced bill text, which we have not ingested.

Prime sponsor

ED(Santos

as printed the sponsor line on the bill status record · introduced in the House. A committee substitute prints the committee here, with the originating member in parentheses.

The co-sponsor roster is not on this page. We hold the prime sponsor the Legislature prints on the bill status, not the list of co-sponsors, which is published only in the introduced bill text we have not ingested. A co-sponsor count here would be a number no record we hold contains.

Source WA Legislature legislation service · as of 2026-09-09

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The hearing record

Every committee meeting where this bill appeared on the agenda. Public is where testimony is taken; Executive is where the committee votes. Anyone may register a position on a bill before its hearing without speaking. Those sign-ins are a public record of who showed up — they are not a poll, not a sample of the state, and not a measure of public opinion. They count the people who knew the hearing was happening.

Committee hearing record
Date Type Committee Chamber
2025-02-11 Public House Education House
2025-02-18 Executive House Education House
2025-02-27 Public House Appropriations House
2025-02-28 Executive House Appropriations House
2026-01-15 Public House Education House
2026-01-27 Executive House Education House

House Education, public hearing · 2025-02-11

Con 0
Pro 17
Other 4

21 sign-ins · 5 testified in person · bars share one scale, longest = 17

House Appropriations, public hearing · 2025-02-27

Con 0
Pro 1
Other 0

1 sign-ins · 0 testified in person · bars share one scale, longest = 17

House Education, public hearing · 2026-01-15

Con 1
Pro 2
Other 5

8 sign-ins · 6 testified in person · bars share one scale, longest = 17

Source WA Legislature committee hearing records and committee sign-in (CSI) sheets · as of 2026-09-09 · rows 3 public, 3 executive · sign-ins 30, counted per hearing from the committee sign-in sheets; names are on the sheet and are not published · note a sign-in is a position registered before the hearing, in person or online; it is not testimony and not a vote · how hearings are read

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What changed between versions

Versions of this bill
Version Substitute Engrossed Status
HB 1662 — — Referred to Appropriations.
SHB 1662 1 — Referred to Appropriations.
2SHB 1662 2 — Referred to Appropriations.
3SHB 1662 3 — Referred to Appropriations.

We do not hold the bill text, so we cannot say what changed. The version list shows that the bill was rewritten and how many times. Comparing the substance of two versions needs the text of each, which we have not ingested. The Legislature publishes both.

Last checked 2026-09-09

Source WA Legislature bill text archive, every version · as of 2026-09-09 · note versions are listed, not compared — a field-by-field diff is prepared by a person or not at all

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Connected records

Everything below is a link some document draws for us. Nothing here is our inference. Grouped by how well the record supports it, always in this order, never sorted by interest.

This record’s page in the entity graph: /bills/leg-bill-2025-26-1662/

On the record · 7

One document states the relation in its own words.

Nothing on file

Votes are in the graph but render as roll-call tables above, not as rows here. Sponsors, hearings and companion bills are in the graph for the current biennium only; for an earlier bill they are not in the graph yet, which is not the same as there having been none. Referrals are not in the graph. No lobbying registration names this bill in the graph: the L-2 bill lines are not loaded, which is not the same as no lobbying having occurred.

Checked 2026-09-09

Source the edge table, counted and paged by tier · as of 2026-09-09 · edges 7 filed, 0 composite, 0 adjacency · how edges are built

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What this page will not compute

Each of these is a number a reader might reasonably expect. None of them follow from the records we hold, so we do not publish them.

Who killed it
We can say a bill was never scheduled for a public hearing. We cannot say who decided that. Chairs control agendas, but the record does not attribute a non-decision to a person, and we will not infer one from a committee roster.
Why it died
Withdrawn, superseded by its own companion, folded into a budget, or simply never taken up — all four look identical in the data.
Whether lobbying affected it
Washington collects lobbyist compensation and employer registrations, and the summary feed we hold of them carries no bill column — checked against lobbyist_compensation and lobbyist_reporting, neither of which has one. So we hold no documented link between a lobbying report and a bill number and publish none. That is a limit of the extract, not a claim that no filing anywhere names a bill: reading the L-2 report body is what it would take to find out.
What changed between versions
We hold the version list, not the text of each version.
How a member would have voted
Only recorded votes appear here. A member absent from a roll call is recorded as absent, not as opposed.
Sign-ins as public opinion
A hearing sign-in sheet counts the people who knew the hearing was happening and could reach it. It is a public record of who showed up, not a poll, not a sample of the state, and not a measure of what Washington thinks. A bill with more sign-ins against it than for it has not been voted down by the public.
An importance score
No ranking of this bill against others, no “major legislation” badge, no prediction of what it will do next. Every bill gets the same page whether it passed, died, or was never heard, and there is no editorial selection of which bills receive one.

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Common questions

What happened to 3SHB 1662?
3SHB 1662 is still before the Legislature in the 2025-26 session. Its most recent recorded action is: “Referred to Appropriations.” No outcome is final while a session is sitting, so this page does not say it passed or died.
Who sponsored 3SHB 1662?
The prime sponsor of record is ED(Santos, as printed on the bill status. This page does not list co-sponsors — that roster is published only in the introduced bill text, which we have not ingested.
What would 3SHB 1662 do?
In the Legislature’s own description: “Removing the requirement for certain education agencies to reside in the office of the superintendent of public instruction for administrative purposes and by making other necessary changes to support independent administration of each agency.” We quote the official language rather than summarising, because a paraphrase of legislation is an interpretation.
Was there a recorded vote on 3SHB 1662?
3SHB 1662 has not reached a recorded floor vote, so no member has a recorded position on it yet.
Did 3SHB 1662 get a public hearing?
Yes — 3 public hearings are on record. A public hearing is where testimony is taken; it is not the committee vote, which happens in an executive session.

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WA Legislature roll call service
Recorded floor votes, member by member.
Outcome
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