ESHB 2081 — Business and occupation tax

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Where it stopped

Became law

Last recorded action

Effective date 7/27/2025*.

Session law

C 420 L 25 — chapter and year in the session laws

Last committee

Senate Ways & Means — the last committee with this bill on an agenda

Public hearing

Yes — 2 on record — a public hearing is where testimony is taken; an executive session is where a committee votes

Source WA Legislature legislation service · as of 2026-08-12

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What it would do

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

Modifying business and occupation tax surcharges, rates, and the advanced computing surcharge cap, clarifying the business and occupation tax deduction for certain investments, and creating a temporary business and occupation tax surcharge on large companies.

Legal title AN ACT Relating to funding public schools, including higher education, health care, social services, and other programs and services to benefit Washingtonians by modifying business and occupation tax surcharges, rates, and the advanced computing surcharge cap, clarifying the business and occupation tax deduction for certain investments, and creating a temporary business and occupation tax surcharge on large companies with annual revenues with more than $250,000,000;

Source WA Legislature legislation service · as of 2026-08-12

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The votes

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

Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-12 · 18 recorded votes

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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.

Source WA Legislature legislation service · as of 2026-08-12

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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.

Source WA Legislature committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-12 · 2 public, 2 executive

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What changed between versions

Source WA Legislature legislation service · as of 2026-08-12

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Connected records

Every link in this section is an edge in the entity graph: a row in one table, carrying the document that states it. Grouped by how well the record supports it.

Filed · 1

One document states the relation in its own words.

• SPONSORED BY · prime

  Joe Fitzgibbon

  HB 2081 as introduced, 2025-26 — bill summary, WA State Legislature · as of 2025-04-16

Source Entity graph, synced from the pipeline · as of 2026-08-12 · Votes are in the graph but render as roll-call tables above, not as rows here. Hearings, referrals and companion bills are not in the graph yet.

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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, but none of those filings name a bill. There is no documented link between a lobbying report and a bill number, so we publish none.

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.

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Common questions

What happened to ESHB 2081?

ESHB 2081 became law. The Legislature’s status record places it at “C 420 L 25” — its chapter and year in the session laws.

Who sponsored ESHB 2081?

The prime sponsor of record is FIN(Fitzgibbon, 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 ESHB 2081 do?

In the Legislature’s own description: “Modifying business and occupation tax surcharges, rates, and the advanced computing surcharge cap, clarifying the business and occupation tax deduction for certain investments, and creating a temporary business and occupation tax surcharge on large companies.” We quote the official language rather than summarising, because a paraphrase of legislation is an interpretation.

Was there a recorded vote on ESHB 2081?

Yes. 18 recorded floor votes appear on this page, member counts and all. Committee votes are held separately as scanned sign-off sheets and are not counted here.

Did ESHB 2081 get a public hearing?

Yes — 2 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.

Cite this page

This is public-records reporting. Use it, and say where it came from.

“ESHB 2081 — Business and occupation tax,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-12, accessed 2026-08-21. https://washingtonindependents.org/bill/2025-26-hb-2081/

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How this page is built

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WA Legislature legislation service

Bill id, titles, sponsor, introduced date, and the history line and location code we render as its status.

WA Legislature committee hearing records

Every committee agenda this bill appeared on, and whether each was a public hearing or an executive session.

WA Legislature roll call service

Recorded floor votes, member by member.

Outcome

Derived, not published by the Legislature. Enacted means a chapter number or effective date is on record; died is only ever assigned once a session has ended; a sitting session yields pending and no death is asserted.

Not loaded

Bill text, amendments, committee votes as individual member records, testimony, and fiscal notes.