---
type: "Bill"
title: "Bringing Washington state government contracting provisions into compliance with federal law as it relates to small works bonding requirements."
description: "Bringing Washington state government contracting provisions into compliance with federal law as it relates to small works bonding requirements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "SB 5734"
citation: "Washington SB 5734 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["PUBLIC WORKS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chase"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-06"
last_action: "2017-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/50cfc4f7-cb11-40be-bf7b-20e0b011f62b"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=5734&year=2017"
source_hash: "54d7ed62c3bb15369b8eb7ed0565945fcbfded665d2888a694ea8c4140801adb"
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 5734 (2017-2018) — Bringing Washington state government contracting provisions into compliance with federal law as it relates to small works bonding requirements.

## 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/5734.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#21) — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- Final Passage (#16) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chase — primary (person)
- Baumgartner — cosponsor (person)
- Braun — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Conway — cosponsor (person)
- Hasegawa — cosponsor (person)
- Honeyford — cosponsor (person)
- Keiser — cosponsor (person)
- Kuderer — cosponsor (person)
- McCoy — cosponsor (person)
- Miloscia — cosponsor (person)
- Rivers — cosponsor (person)
- Saldaña — cosponsor (person)
- Warnick — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-06** First reading, referred to State Government. `reading-1`
- **2017-02-17** SGOV - Majority; do pass.
- **2017-02-17** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2017-02-24** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2017-02-27** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2017-02-27** Third reading, passed; yeas, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2017-03-01** First reading, referred to State Government, Elections & Information Technology (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). `reading-1`
- **2017-03-22** SEIT - Majority; do pass.
- **2017-03-27** Referred to Capital Budget.
- **2017-04-03** CB - Majority; do pass.
- **2017-04-04** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
- **2017-04-06** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2017-04-07** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2017-04-07** Third reading, passed; yeas, 96; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 2. `reading-3`
- **2017-04-10** President signed. `passage`
- **2017-04-11** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2017-04-14** Delivered to Governor.
- **2017-04-20** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2017-04-20** Chapter 75, 2017 Laws. `became-law`
- **2017-04-20** 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/50cfc4f7-cb11-40be-bf7b-20e0b011f62b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).