---
type: "Bill"
title: "Creating protections and fairness for students in the student loan disbursement process."
description: "Creating protections and fairness for students in the student loan disbursement process."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "HB 1499"
citation: "Washington HB 1499 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS", "COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES", "STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT COUNCIL", "COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGES", "VOCATIONAL EDUCATION"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pollet"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 29
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-01-20"
last_action: "2018-03-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e2193b88-7553-474d-87b9-69c78bed7a5c"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1499&year=2017"
source_hash: "b0489f330a86d426d5b6a020ec3478fd0fc33444087b4e448c8c3a73cc1727be"
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 1499 (2017-2018) — Creating protections and fairness for students in the student loan disbursement process.

## 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/1499.htm)

## Votes

- Final Passage (#3) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Final Passage (#8) — **96–1** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#12) — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Pollet — primary (person)
- Bergquist — cosponsor (person)
- Lovick — cosponsor (person)
- Ryu — cosponsor (person)
- Sells — cosponsor (person)
- Stanford — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-20** First reading, referred to Higher Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). `reading-1`
- **2017-02-14** HE - Majority; do pass.
- **2017-02-15** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
- **2017-03-02** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading.
- **2017-03-03** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2017-03-03** Third reading, passed; yeas, 96; nays, 1; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2017-03-07** First reading, referred to Higher Education. `reading-1`
- **2017-03-28** HIE - Majority; do pass.
- **2017-03-28** And refer to Ways & Means. `referral-committee`
- **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.
- **2018-01-08** By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
- **2018-01-11** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on third reading.
- **2018-01-11** Third reading, passed; yeas, 98; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2018-01-15** First reading, referred to Higher Education & Workforce Development. `reading-1`
- **2018-02-20** HEWD - Majority; do pass.
- **2018-02-21** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2018-02-26** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2018-02-27** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2018-02-27** Third reading, passed; yeas, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2018-03-03** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2018-03-06** President signed. `passage`
- **2018-03-06** Delivered to Governor.
- **2018-03-09** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-09** Chapter 13, 2018 Laws. `became-law`
- **2018-03-09** 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/e2193b88-7553-474d-87b9-69c78bed7a5c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).