---
type: "Bill"
title: "Eliminating the office of the insurance commissioner's school district or educational service district annual report."
description: "Eliminating the office of the insurance commissioner's school district or educational service district annual report."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "HB 1042"
citation: "Washington HB 1042 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["INSURANCE", "SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS", "INSURANCE COMMISSIONER"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Springer"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 31
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2016-12-15"
last_action: "2017-07-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/58268123-6486-4fe8-bf6b-6a1e5b775c18"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1042&year=2017"
source_hash: "42d9fc955e0f3a2bc90195daa69d93f62160c6811275911c2da7ee4762a5ab2f"
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 1042 (2017-2018) — Eliminating the office of the insurance commissioner's school district or educational service district annual report.

## 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/1042.htm)

## Votes

- Final Passage (#1) — **50–47** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#10) — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- Final Passage (#2) — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Springer — primary (person)
- Fitzgibbon — cosponsor (person)
- Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Jinkins — cosponsor (person)
- Sawyer — cosponsor (person)
- Tharinger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2016-12-15** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
- **2017-01-09** First reading, referred to Appropriations (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). `reading-1`
- **2017-02-15** APP - Majority; do pass.
- **2017-02-15** Minority; do not pass.
- **2017-02-15** Minority; without recommendation.
- **2017-02-17** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
- **2017-03-07** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading.
- **2017-03-08** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2017-03-08** Third reading, passed; yeas, 50; nays, 47; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2017-03-10** First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education. `reading-1`
- **2017-03-28** EDU - Majority; do pass.
- **2017-03-28** And refer to Ways & Means. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-28** Minority; without recommendation.
- **2017-03-29** Referred to Ways & Means.
- **2017-04-23** By resolution, returned to House Rules Committee for third reading.
- **2017-04-24** By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
- **2017-05-23** By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
- **2017-06-21** By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
- **2017-06-28** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on third reading.
- **2017-06-30** Third reading, passed; yeas, 94; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 4. `reading-3`
- **2017-06-30** First Reading.
- **2017-06-30** Rules suspended.
- **2017-06-30** Placed on second reading.
- **2017-06-30** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2017-06-30** Third reading, passed; yeas, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2017-06-30** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2017-06-30** President signed. `passage`
- **2017-06-30** Delivered to Governor.
- **2017-07-06** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2017-07-06** Chapter 7, 2017 Laws 3rd Special Session. `became-law`
- **2017-07-06** Effective date 10/19/2017. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/58268123-6486-4fe8-bf6b-6a1e5b775c18`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).