HB 2187 — Supporting employers providing child care assistance to employees by establishing a business and occupation and public utility tax credit.
Congress · introduced 2026-01-12
AN ACT Relating to supporting employers providing child care assistance to employees by establishing a business and occupation and public utility tax credit;
Latest action: 2026-01-12 — First reading, referred to Finance.
Sponsors
- Penner, Joshua (R, WA-31) — sponsor · 2026-01-12
- Eslick, Carolyn (R, WA-39) — cosponsor · 2026-01-12
- Schmidt, Suzanne (R, WA-4) — cosponsor · 2026-01-12
- Dufault, Jeremie (R, WA-15) — cosponsor · 2026-01-12
- Jacobsen, Cyndy (R, WA-25) — cosponsor · 2026-01-12
- Mendoza, Gloria (R, WA-14) — cosponsor · 2026-01-12
- Graham, Jenny (R, WA-6) — cosponsor · 2026-01-12
- Couture, Travis (R, WA-35) — cosponsor · 2026-01-12
- Schmick, Joe (R, WA-9) — cosponsor · 2026-01-12
Action timeline
- · house — Prefiled for introduction.
- · house — First reading, referred to Finance.
Text versions
No text versions on file yet — same ingest as the action timeline populates these. Each version has direct links to the XML / HTML / PDF at govinfo.gov.
Connected on the graph
Inbound (9)
| date | from | type | amount | role | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-12 | Couture, Travis | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2026-01-12 | Dufault, Jeremie | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2026-01-12 | Eslick, Carolyn | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2026-01-12 | Graham, Jenny | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2026-01-12 | Jacobsen, Cyndy | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2026-01-12 | Mendoza, Gloria | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2026-01-12 | Penner, Joshua | sponsor_of_bill | — | sponsor | sponsorship |
| 2026-01-12 | Schmick, Joe | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2026-01-12 | Schmidt, Suzanne | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
Who matters
Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.
| # | Member | Role | Speeches | Voted | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Penner, Joshua (R, state_lower WA-31) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
| 2 | Couture, Travis (R, state_lower WA-35) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 3 | Dufault, Jeremie (R, state_lower WA-15) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 4 | Eslick, Carolyn (R, state_lower WA-39) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 5 | Graham, Jenny (R, state_lower WA-6) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 6 | Jacobsen, Cyndy (R, state_lower WA-25) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 7 | Mendoza, Gloria (R, state_lower WA-14) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 8 | Schmick, Joe (R, state_lower WA-9) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 9 | Schmidt, Suzanne (R, state_lower WA-4) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
Predicted vote
Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.
0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)
By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no
Activity
Every typed-graph event involving this entity, newest first. Each row is one edge in the influence graph; click the date to jump to its provenance.
- 2026-01-12 · cosponsored by Schmick, Joe (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2026-01-12 · cosponsored by Mendoza, Gloria (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2026-01-12 · cosponsored by Graham, Jenny (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2026-01-12 · cosponsored by Jacobsen, Cyndy (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2026-01-12 · cosponsored by Couture, Travis (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2026-01-12 · cosponsored by Eslick, Carolyn (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2026-01-12 · sponsored by Penner, Joshua (sponsor) · sponsorship
- 2026-01-12 · cosponsored by Schmidt, Suzanne (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2026-01-12 · cosponsored by Dufault, Jeremie (cosponsor) · sponsorship