---
type: "Bill"
title: "Establishing the Washington state women's commission."
description: "Establishing the Washington state women's commission."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "HB 2759"
citation: "Washington HB 2759 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Doglio"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 32
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-01-15"
last_action: "2018-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb830385-a749-4545-995c-ca1c4052f436"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=2759&year=2017"
source_hash: "c0c0ef50e793b740f2dd54c67bdf2a39843fcf28ac9f14667c8425c11cb6ba29"
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 2759 (2017-2018) — Establishing the Washington state women's commission.

## 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/2759.htm)
2. **Engrossed Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2017-18/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/2759.E.htm)

## Votes

- Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#26) — **50–47** (pass) · lower
- Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#23) — **44–5** (pass) · upper
- Final Passage (#36) — **65–33** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Doglio — primary (person)
- Appleton — cosponsor (person)
- Bergquist — cosponsor (person)
- Chapman — cosponsor (person)
- Dolan — cosponsor (person)
- Frame — cosponsor (person)
- Gregerson — cosponsor (person)
- Hudgins — cosponsor (person)
- Jinkins — cosponsor (person)
- Kagi — cosponsor (person)
- Kilduff — cosponsor (person)
- Macri — cosponsor (person)
- Pettigrew — cosponsor (person)
- Pollet — cosponsor (person)
- Santos — cosponsor (person)
- Senn — cosponsor (person)
- Stanford — cosponsor (person)
- Tarleton — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-15** First reading, referred to State Government, Elections & Information Technology (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). `reading-1`
- **2018-01-31** SEIT - Majority; do pass.
- **2018-01-31** Minority; do not pass.
- **2018-02-02** Referred to Appropriations.
- **2018-02-06** APP - Majority; do pass.
- **2018-02-06** Minority; do not pass.
- **2018-02-06** Minority; without recommendation.
- **2018-02-06** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
- **2018-02-09** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading.
- **2018-02-13** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
- **2018-02-13** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2018-02-13** Third reading, passed; yeas, 65; nays, 33; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2018-02-16** First reading, referred to State Government, Tribal Relations & Elections. `reading-1`
- **2018-02-21** SGTE - Majority; do pass with amendment(s).
- **2018-02-21** And refer to Ways & Means. `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-21** Minority; without recommendation.
- **2018-02-22** Referred to Ways & Means.
- **2018-02-26** WM - Majority; do pass without amendment(s) by State Government, Tribal Relations & Elections.
- **2018-02-26** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2018-02-28** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2018-03-01** Committee amendment not adopted. `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-01** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
- **2018-03-01** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2018-03-01** Third reading, passed; yeas, 44; nays, 5; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2018-03-05** House concurred in Senate amendments.
- **2018-03-05** Passed final passage; yeas, 50; nays, 47; absent, 0; excused, 1. `passage`
- **2018-03-08** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2018-03-08** President signed. `passage`
- **2018-03-08** Delivered to Governor.
- **2018-03-15** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-15** Chapter 98, 2018 Laws. `became-law`
- **2018-03-15** 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/eb830385-a749-4545-995c-ca1c4052f436`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).