Bill · Washington State Legislature · 2025-26
SHB 2458 — College grant/credential prg
SHB 2458 was introduced in the 2025-26 Washington legislative session by Representative Entenman. It has had 1 public hearing and is still before the Legislature.
- 2025-26 session
- House
- Still before the Legislature
- 1 public hearing
- Sponsor: PEW(Entenman
Source Washington State Legislature web services: legislation, hearings and roll calls · as of 2026-08-07 · introduced 2026-02-03
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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 Postsecondary Education & Workforce — the last committee with this bill on an agenda
- Public hearing
- Yes — 1 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 2026-08-07
Source WA Legislature legislation service · as of 2026-08-07
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What it would do
The Legislature’s own description. We do not paraphrase legislation.
Expanding access to the Washington college grant to students enrolled in eligible postsecondary nondegree credential programs.
Legal title AN ACT Relating to expanding access to the Washington college grant to students enrolled in eligible postsecondary nondegree credential programs;
Source WA Legislature legislation service · as of 2026-08-07
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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.
| Date | Type | Committee | Chamber |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-28 | Public | House Postsecondary Education & Workforce | House |
| 2026-02-03 | Executive | House Postsecondary Education & Workforce | House |
Source WA Legislature committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-07 · 1 public, 1 executive
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The votes
Recorded floor votes. Committee votes are in the hearing record above.
No recorded floor vote. It has not yet reached a floor vote.
Last checked 2026-08-07
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Versions
| Version | Substitute | Engrossed | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB 2458 | — | — | Referred to Appropriations. |
| SHB 2458 | 1 | — | 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 2026-08-07
Source WA Legislature legislation service · as of 2026-08-07
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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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Connected records
Every link this page draws, grouped by how well a document supports it.
On the record
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SPONSORED BY
PEW(Entenman
WA Legislature, bill sponsorship record
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HEARD BY
House Postsecondary Education & Workforce
WA Legislature, committee agenda
Nothing on file
No lobbying edge is published. Washington collects lobbyist filings but none of them name a bill, so there is no documented link to draw. No funding edge either: we do not join campaign money to legislation, because doing so would require inferring intent from two unrelated records.
Source WA Legislature legislation and committee services · as of 2026-08-07
Cite this page
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“SHB 2458 — College grant/credential prg,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-09. https://washingtonindependents.org/bill/2025-26-hb-2458/
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Where this page comes from
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- WA Legislature legislation service
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- 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.