---
type: "Bill"
title: "Allowing public transportation benefit area authorities to use job order contracts and procedure."
description: "Allowing public transportation benefit area authorities to use job order contracts and procedure."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "HB 1395"
citation: "Washington HB 1395 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["PUBLIC WORKS", "SUNSET REVIEW", "PUBLIC TRANSIT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Peterson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-19"
last_action: "2017-04-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b2159c76-0f2e-4705-8c8c-05aec9e737cc"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1395&year=2017"
source_hash: "178157c3a43403561cfa0f82a6fbd71637c20b0dc38becf29c21ebc5939ef33c"
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 1395 (2017-2018) — Allowing public transportation benefit area authorities to use job order contracts and procedure.

## 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/1395.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#4) — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- Final Passage (#3) — **96–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Peterson — primary (person)
- Koster — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-19** First reading, referred to Capital Budget (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). `reading-1`
- **2017-02-07** CB - Majority; do pass.
- **2017-02-10** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
- **2017-02-14** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2017-02-28** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2017-02-28** Third reading, passed; yeas, 96; nays, 2; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2017-03-02** First reading, referred to Transportation. `reading-1`
- **2017-04-03** TRAN - Majority; do pass.
- **2017-04-04** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2017-04-05** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2017-04-11** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2017-04-11** Third reading, passed; yeas, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2017-04-14** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2017-04-17** President signed. `passage`
- **2017-04-18** Delivered to Governor.
- **2017-04-27** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2017-04-27** Chapter 136, 2017 Laws. `became-law`
- **2017-04-27** 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/b2159c76-0f2e-4705-8c8c-05aec9e737cc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).