---
type: "Bill"
title: "Making a fourth driving under the influence offense a felony."
description: "Making a fourth driving under the influence offense a felony."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "SB 5037"
citation: "Washington SB 5037 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["SENTENCING", "CRIMES", "TRAFFIC OFFENSES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Padden"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-11"
last_action: "2017-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/53b8012f-ffcb-400a-93ab-d8ac2e2d32f1"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=5037&year=2017"
source_hash: "393c012c16b9a088b35995e5c4c58a1bf66e143aa93edc8b53779264748f7474"
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 SB 5037 (2017-2018) — Making a fourth driving under the influence offense a felony.

## 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/Senate%20Bills/5037.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#5) — **41–0** (pass) · upper
- Final Passage (#17) — **85–11** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Padden — primary (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Carlyle — cosponsor (person)
- Conway — cosponsor (person)
- Darneille — cosponsor (person)
- Frockt — cosponsor (person)
- Kuderer — cosponsor (person)
- Miloscia — cosponsor (person)
- O'Ban — cosponsor (person)
- Palumbo — cosponsor (person)
- Pearson — cosponsor (person)
- Rolfes — cosponsor (person)
- Wellman — cosponsor (person)
- Zeiger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-11** First reading, referred to Law & Justice. `reading-1`
- **2017-01-25** LAW - Majority; do pass.
- **2017-01-25** And refer to Ways & Means. `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-26** Referred to Ways & Means.
- **2017-02-08** WM - Majority; do pass.
- **2017-02-08** Minority; without recommendation.
- **2017-02-10** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2017-02-21** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2017-02-23** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2017-02-23** Third reading, passed; yeas, 41; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 8. `reading-3`
- **2017-02-24** First reading, referred to Public Safety (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). `reading-1`
- **2017-03-28** PS - Majority; do pass.
- **2017-03-29** Referred to Appropriations.
- **2017-04-04** APP - Majority; do pass.
- **2017-04-04** Minority; do not pass.
- **2017-04-04** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
- **2017-04-11** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading.
- **2017-04-20** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2017-04-20** Third reading, passed; yeas, 85; nays, 11; absent, 0; excused, 2. `reading-3`
- **2017-04-21** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2017-04-21** President signed. `passage`
- **2017-04-23** Delivered to Governor.
- **2017-05-16** Governor partially vetoed. `executive-veto-line-item`
- **2017-05-16** Chapter 335, 2017 Laws PV. `became-law`
- **2017-05-16** 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/53b8012f-ffcb-400a-93ab-d8ac2e2d32f1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).