---
type: "Bill"
title: "Providing associate degree education to enhance education opportunities and public safety."
description: "Providing associate degree education to enhance education opportunities and public safety."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "SB 5069"
citation: "Washington SB 5069 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGES", "STATE BOARD FOR", "CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES AND JAILS", "COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGES", "CRIMINAL OFFENDERS", "CORRECTIONS", "DEPARTMENT OF"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Walsh"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-11"
last_action: "2017-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1a501f76-9888-4ef2-9bf0-061b2154a4f6"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=5069&year=2017"
source_hash: "f011b890d67713b913d3c3fefd776a7e4f1c95f619564fcffc059f3b5079907a"
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 5069 (2017-2018) — Providing associate degree education to enhance education opportunities and public safety.

## 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/5069.htm)
2. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2017-18/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5069-S.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#8) — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- Final Passage (#3) — **78–20** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Walsh — primary (person)
- Chase — cosponsor (person)
- Conway — cosponsor (person)
- Frockt — cosponsor (person)
- Hasegawa — cosponsor (person)
- O'Ban — cosponsor (person)
- Palumbo — 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`
- **2017-02-08** LAW - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `passage`
- **2017-02-09** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2017-02-14** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2017-02-15** 1st substitute bill substituted. `substitution`
- **2017-02-08** LAW - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `passage`
- **2017-02-09** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2017-02-14** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2017-02-15** 1st substitute bill substituted. `substitution`
- **2017-02-15** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2017-02-15** Third reading, passed; yeas, 46; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 3. `reading-3`
- **2017-02-16** First reading, referred to Higher Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). `reading-1`
- **2017-03-22** HE - Majority; do pass.
- **2017-03-24** 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.
- **2017-04-07** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2017-04-10** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2017-04-10** Third reading, passed; yeas, 78; nays, 20; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2017-04-11** President signed. `passage`
- **2017-04-14** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2017-04-18** Delivered to Governor.
- **2017-04-25** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2017-04-25** Chapter 120, 2017 Laws. `became-law`
- **2017-04-25** 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/1a501f76-9888-4ef2-9bf0-061b2154a4f6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).