WA People
BILL · 2025–26 SESSION

HB 1884: Cannabis regulation

Concerning cannabis regulation.

Summary

  • Requires the Liquor and Cannabis Board (LCB), through a collaborative public process, to establish a hierarchy of enforcement priorities to guide the LCB's enforcement of cannabis laws and rules.
  • Applies requirements for significant legislative rules under the Administrative Procedure Act to rules of the LCB, and requires the convening of a meeting of impacted parties related to the LCB's significant legislative rules.
  • Directs the LCB to initiate a review of cannabis rules to identify rules to eliminate or appropriately modify as provided in the bill.
  • Requires the LCB to regularly audit the data in the Cannabis Central Reporting System to identify outliers or anomalies in data, compare and consider other information, and identify and undertake enforcement against inversion and diversion of cannabis.

From the House Bill Analysis 2025 (HB 1884), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedFeb 7, 2025
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Kevin Waters (R-17)
Introduced
February 7, 2025 in the House
Last action
January 12, 2026
Budget
Has a fiscal note

AN ACT Relating to creating regulatory certainty and consistency for Washington's regulated cannabis system by establishing enforcement priorities, creating regulatory processes, and detecting and preventing the illegal inversion and diversion of cannabis and cannabis products into and out of Washington's regulated cannabis system;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Kevin Waters (R-17)

1 co-sponsor (1 Democrat, 0 Republicans)

Kristine Reeves D-30

Votes

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

History

  1. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  2. First reading, referred to Consumer Protection & Business.

HB 1884 in other sessions

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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