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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Concerning costs associated with responding to public records requests."
+description: "Concerning costs associated with responding to public records requests."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2017-2018"
+identifier: "HB 1595"
+citation: "Washington HB 1595 (2017-2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Nealey"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2017-01-25"
+last_action: "2017-05-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/66a92f56-11ef-429c-be3f-eb880caba326"
+source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1595&year=2017"
+source_hash: "49dd522af686ff760bf0717464ea556285dcabfd53820762665eb46181f67ad9"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wa"]
+---
+
+# Washington HB 1595 (2017-2018) — Concerning costs associated with responding to public records requests.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2017-18/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1595.htm)
+2. **Engrossed Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2017-18/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1595.E.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Final Passage (#32) — **75–22** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#15) — **43–4** (pass) · upper
+- Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#21) — **80–18** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Nealey — primary (person)
+- Bergquist — cosponsor (person)
+- Clibborn — cosponsor (person)
+- Dent — cosponsor (person)
+- Dolan — cosponsor (person)
+- Dye — cosponsor (person)
+- Fey — cosponsor (person)
+- Fitzgibbon — cosponsor (person)
+- Goodman — cosponsor (person)
+- Gregerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Griffey — cosponsor (person)
+- Haler — cosponsor (person)
+- Hargrove — cosponsor (person)
+- Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
+- Jinkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Kagi — cosponsor (person)
+- Klippert — cosponsor (person)
+- Kloba — cosponsor (person)
+- Koster — cosponsor (person)
+- Kraft — cosponsor (person)
+- Lytton — cosponsor (person)
+- Manweller — cosponsor (person)
+- McBride — cosponsor (person)
+- Muri — cosponsor (person)
+- Peterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
+- Schmick — cosponsor (person)
+- Sells — cosponsor (person)
+- Senn — cosponsor (person)
+- Slatter — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Springer — cosponsor (person)
+- Stanford — cosponsor (person)
+- Steele — cosponsor (person)
+- Tharinger — cosponsor (person)
+- Walsh — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilcox — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-25** First reading, referred to State Government (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). `reading-1`
+- **2017-02-14** SEIT - Majority; do pass.
+- **2017-02-14** Minority; without recommendation.
+- **2017-02-17** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
+- **2017-03-01** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading.
+- **2017-03-03** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
+- **2017-03-03** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
+- **2017-03-03** Third reading, passed; yeas, 75; nays, 22; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
+- **2017-03-07** First reading, referred to State Government. `reading-1`
+- **2017-03-29** SGOV - Majority; do pass with amendment(s).
+- **2017-03-29** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
+- **2017-03-31** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
+- **2017-04-07** Committee amendment(s) adopted with no other amendments.
+- **2017-04-07** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
+- **2017-04-07** Third reading, passed; yeas, 43; nays, 4; absent, 0; excused, 2. `reading-3`
+- **2017-04-17** House concurred in Senate amendments.
+- **2017-04-17** Passed final passage; yeas, 80; nays, 18; absent, 0; excused, 0. `passage`
+- **2017-04-19** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2017-04-20** President signed. `passage`
+- **2017-04-21** Delivered to Governor.
+- **2017-05-16** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2017-05-16** Chapter 304, 2017 Laws. `became-law`
+- **2017-05-16** Effective date 7/23/2017. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/66a92f56-11ef-429c-be3f-eb880caba326`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
+