---
type: "Bill"
title: "Eliminating wholesale vehicle dealer licensing."
description: "Eliminating wholesale vehicle dealer licensing."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "HB 1722"
citation: "Washington HB 1722 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LICENSING", "DEPARTMENT", "MOTOR VEHICLES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kirby"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-27"
last_action: "2017-04-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f3641a8a-6c8f-4f0d-8517-c9ee421bb1ac"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1722&year=2017"
source_hash: "c3dd96d86a9fec68a91c71b3e51944a5075369d8e226497f5679bc0febc698d8"
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 1722 (2017-2018) — Eliminating wholesale vehicle dealer licensing.

## 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/1722.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#6) — **46–3** (pass) · upper
- Final Passage (#18) — **71–26** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kirby — primary (person)
- Vick — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-27** First reading, referred to Business & Financial Services (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). `reading-1`
- **2017-02-14** BFS - Majority; do pass.
- **2017-02-14** Minority; do not pass.
- **2017-02-16** Referred to Transportation.
- **2017-02-21** TR - Majority; do pass.
- **2017-02-21** Minority; do not pass.
- **2017-02-23** 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, 71; nays, 26; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2017-03-07** First reading, referred to Transportation. `reading-1`
- **2017-03-14** TRAN - Majority; do pass.
- **2017-03-16** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2017-03-29** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2017-03-30** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2017-03-30** Third reading, passed; yeas, 46; nays, 3; absent, 0; excused, 0. `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 15, 2017 Laws. `became-law`
- **2017-04-14** Effective date 6/30/2017*. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f3641a8a-6c8f-4f0d-8517-c9ee421bb1ac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).