---
type: "Bill"
title: "Addressing the Washington state credit union act."
description: "Addressing the Washington state credit union act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "SB 5144"
citation: "Washington SB 5144 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS", "NAMED ACTS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Angel"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-13"
last_action: "2017-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bdfd40b6-cf06-4b29-86a8-c00b9c971a5f"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=5144&year=2017"
source_hash: "2e795c6c96a4414dd0232628e9c7ec534dce72dbd137b57773fb623fde3b50e0"
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 5144 (2017-2018) — Addressing the Washington state credit union act.

## 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/5144.htm)

## Votes

- Final Passage (#11) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#18) — **48–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Angel — primary (person)
- Hobbs — cosponsor (person)
- Mullet — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-13** First reading, referred to Financial Institutions & Insurance. `reading-1`
- **2017-01-19** FI - Majority; do pass.
- **2017-01-23** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2017-02-24** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2017-03-01** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2017-03-01** Third reading, passed; yeas, 48; nays, 1; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2017-03-03** First reading, referred to Business & Financial Services (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). `reading-1`
- **2017-03-15** BFS - Majority; do pass.
- **2017-03-17** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
- **2017-04-05** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2017-04-06** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2017-04-06** Third reading, passed; yeas, 97; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2017-04-10** President signed. `passage`
- **2017-04-11** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2017-04-13** Delivered to Governor.
- **2017-04-19** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2017-04-19** Chapter 61, 2017 Laws. `became-law`
- **2017-04-19** 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/bdfd40b6-cf06-4b29-86a8-c00b9c971a5f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).