---
type: "Bill"
title: "Creating Washington state aviation special license plates."
description: "Creating Washington state aviation special license plates."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "HB 1400"
citation: "Washington HB 1400 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["MOTOR VEHICLES", "AERONAUTICS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dent"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-19"
last_action: "2017-04-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8fe0ea6d-d2f7-4184-ac45-a92911d844f2"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1400&year=2017"
source_hash: "b0a59621d4bfa09f31434c66e3dc6d3e38e6abfa1e6de8bba1762b65a1f24108"
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 1400 (2017-2018) — Creating Washington state aviation special license plates.

## 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/1400.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#12) — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- Final Passage (#4) — **94–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dent — primary (person)
- Barkis — cosponsor (person)
- Bergquist — cosponsor (person)
- Blake — cosponsor (person)
- Buys — cosponsor (person)
- Chandler — cosponsor (person)
- Condotta — cosponsor (person)
- Dye — cosponsor (person)
- Graves — cosponsor (person)
- Gregerson — cosponsor (person)
- Griffey — cosponsor (person)
- Haler — cosponsor (person)
- Hargrove — cosponsor (person)
- Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Holy — cosponsor (person)
- Irwin — cosponsor (person)
- Jenkin — cosponsor (person)
- Kagi — cosponsor (person)
- Klippert — cosponsor (person)
- Koster — cosponsor (person)
- Kraft — cosponsor (person)
- MacEwen — cosponsor (person)
- Manweller — cosponsor (person)
- McBride — cosponsor (person)
- McCaslin — cosponsor (person)
- McDonald — cosponsor (person)
- Mosbrucker — cosponsor (person)
- Muri — cosponsor (person)
- Nealey — cosponsor (person)
- Peterson — cosponsor (person)
- Pettigrew — cosponsor (person)
- Pike — cosponsor (person)
- Rodne — cosponsor (person)
- Sells — cosponsor (person)
- Stambaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Steele — cosponsor (person)
- Stokesbary — cosponsor (person)
- Tarleton — cosponsor (person)
- Van Werven — cosponsor (person)
- Volz — cosponsor (person)
- Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- Wilcox — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-19** First reading, referred to Transportation (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). `reading-1`
- **2017-02-08** TR - Majority; do pass.
- **2017-02-08** Minority; do not pass.
- **2017-02-13** 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, 94; nays, 4; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2017-03-02** First reading, referred to Transportation. `reading-1`
- **2017-03-22** TRAN - Majority; do pass.
- **2017-03-23** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2017-03-29** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2017-03-31** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2017-03-31** Third reading, passed; yeas, 46; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 3. `reading-3`
- **2017-04-06** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2017-04-06** President signed. `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Delivered to Governor.
- **2017-04-14** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2017-04-14** Chapter 11, 2017 Laws. `became-law`
- **2017-04-14** 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/8fe0ea6d-d2f7-4184-ac45-a92911d844f2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).