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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Addressing county commissioner elections."
+description: "Addressing county commissioner elections."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2017-2018"
+identifier: "HB 2887"
+citation: "Washington HB 2887 (2017-2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["COUNTIES", "NAMED ACTS", "REDISTRICTING COMMISSION", "ELECTIONS"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Riccelli"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 27
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2018-01-19"
+last_action: "2018-03-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/93184b89-2b86-4fd8-81ef-ce19a99014a6"
+source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=2887&year=2017"
+source_hash: "4046c8088b9aed1684382732668b0c52851b44a82f869dc52992f5c15cc1e532"
+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 2887 (2017-2018) — Addressing county commissioner elections.
+
+## 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/2887.htm)
+2. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2017-18/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/2887-S.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#13) — **81–15** (pass) · lower
+- Final Passage (#22) — **83–14** (pass) · lower
+- Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#51) — **38–10** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Riccelli — primary (person)
+- Frame — cosponsor (person)
+- Holy — cosponsor (person)
+- McCaslin — cosponsor (person)
+- Ormsby — cosponsor (person)
+- Shea — cosponsor (person)
+- Volz — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-19** First reading, referred to State Government, Elections & Information Technology (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). `reading-1`
+- **2018-01-31** SEIT - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `passage`
+- **2018-02-02** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
+- **2018-02-06** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
+- **2018-02-08** 1st substitute bill substituted. `substitution`
+- **2018-01-31** SEIT - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `passage`
+- **2018-02-02** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
+- **2018-02-06** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
+- **2018-02-08** 1st substitute bill substituted. `substitution`
+- **2018-02-08** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
+- **2018-02-08** Third reading, passed; yeas, 83; nays, 14; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-10** First reading, referred to Local Government. `reading-1`
+- **2018-02-20** LGOV - Majority; do pass.
+- **2018-02-20** Minority; do not pass.
+- **2018-02-21** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
+- **2018-02-26** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
+- **2018-02-27** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
+- **2018-02-27** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
+- **2018-02-27** Third reading, passed; yeas, 38; nays, 10; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
+- **2018-03-03** House concurred in Senate amendments.
+- **2018-03-03** Passed final passage; yeas, 81; nays, 15; absent, 0; excused, 2. `passage`
+- **2018-03-06** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2018-03-07** President signed. `passage`
+- **2018-03-08** Delivered to Governor.
+- **2018-03-28** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2018-03-28** Chapter 301, 2018 Laws. `became-law`
+- **2018-03-28** Effective date 6/7/2018*. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/93184b89-2b86-4fd8-81ef-ce19a99014a6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
+