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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Making a fourth driving under the influence offense a felony."
+description: "Making a fourth driving under the influence offense a felony."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2017-2018"
+identifier: "SB 5037"
+citation: "Washington SB 5037 (2017-2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["SENTENCING", "CRIMES", "TRAFFIC OFFENSES"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Padden"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 25
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-11"
+last_action: "2017-05-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/53b8012f-ffcb-400a-93ab-d8ac2e2d32f1"
+source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=5037&year=2017"
+source_hash: "393c012c16b9a088b35995e5c4c58a1bf66e143aa93edc8b53779264748f7474"
+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 SB 5037 (2017-2018) — Making a fourth driving under the influence offense a felony.
+
+## 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/Senate%20Bills/5037.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#5) — **41–0** (pass) · upper
+- Final Passage (#17) — **85–11** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Padden — primary (person)
+- Angel — cosponsor (person)
+- Carlyle — cosponsor (person)
+- Conway — cosponsor (person)
+- Darneille — cosponsor (person)
+- Frockt — cosponsor (person)
+- Kuderer — cosponsor (person)
+- Miloscia — cosponsor (person)
+- O'Ban — cosponsor (person)
+- Palumbo — cosponsor (person)
+- Pearson — cosponsor (person)
+- Rolfes — cosponsor (person)
+- Wellman — cosponsor (person)
+- Zeiger — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-11** First reading, referred to Law & Justice. `reading-1`
+- **2017-01-25** LAW - Majority; do pass.
+- **2017-01-25** And refer to Ways & Means. `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-26** Referred to Ways & Means.
+- **2017-02-08** WM - Majority; do pass.
+- **2017-02-08** Minority; without recommendation.
+- **2017-02-10** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
+- **2017-02-21** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
+- **2017-02-23** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
+- **2017-02-23** Third reading, passed; yeas, 41; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 8. `reading-3`
+- **2017-02-24** First reading, referred to Public Safety (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). `reading-1`
+- **2017-03-28** PS - Majority; do pass.
+- **2017-03-29** Referred to Appropriations.
+- **2017-04-04** APP - Majority; do pass.
+- **2017-04-04** Minority; do not pass.
+- **2017-04-04** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
+- **2017-04-11** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading.
+- **2017-04-20** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
+- **2017-04-20** Third reading, passed; yeas, 85; nays, 11; absent, 0; excused, 2. `reading-3`
+- **2017-04-21** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2017-04-21** President signed. `passage`
+- **2017-04-23** Delivered to Governor.
+- **2017-05-16** Governor partially vetoed. `executive-veto-line-item`
+- **2017-05-16** Chapter 335, 2017 Laws PV. `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/53b8012f-ffcb-400a-93ab-d8ac2e2d32f1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
+