---
type: "Bill"
title: "Making the public art capital budget language permanent for efficiency."
description: "Making the public art capital budget language permanent for efficiency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "HB 1318"
citation: "Washington HB 1318 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["STATE AGENCIES AND DEPARTMENTS", "ART AND ARTWORKS", "COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES", "COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGES", "BUDGETS", "ARTS COMMISSION"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tharinger"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-18"
last_action: "2019-05-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bd64b951-42ed-4d8d-8fce-250ba7205733"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1318&year=2019"
source_hash: "946b300d4c94a21fc6d6ea7eeed9b22c484fc1ee56636dda9a42f6dbfdfb2f20"
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 1318 (2019-2020) — Making the public art capital budget language permanent for efficiency.

## 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/2019-20/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1318.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#6) — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- Final Passage (#1) — **95–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Tharinger — primary (person)
- Eslick — cosponsor (person)
- Jinkins — cosponsor (person)
- Ryu — cosponsor (person)
- Senn — cosponsor (person)
- Thai — cosponsor (person)
- Van Werven — cosponsor (person)
- Wylie — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-18** First reading, referred to Capital Budget. `reading-1`
- **2019-02-26** CB - Executive action taken by committee.
- **2019-02-26** CB - Majority; do pass.
- **2019-02-28** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
- **2019-03-11** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading.
- **2019-03-13** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2019-03-13** Third reading, passed; yeas, 95; nays, 1; absent, 0; excused, 2. `reading-3`
- **2019-03-15** First reading, referred to Ways & Means. `reading-1`
- **2019-03-21** WM - Majority; do pass.
- **2019-03-25** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2019-04-13** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2019-04-15** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2019-04-15** Third reading, passed; yeas, 48; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2019-04-18** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2019-04-25** President signed. `passage`
- **2019-04-26** Delivered to Governor.
- **2019-05-07** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-07** Chapter 240, 2019 Laws. `became-law`
- **2019-05-07** Effective date 7/28/2019. `became-law`
- **2019-01-29T14:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Capital Budget at 09:00 AM
- **2019-02-26T14:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Capital Budget at 09:00 AM
- **2019-03-21T19:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 03:30 PM

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bd64b951-42ed-4d8d-8fce-250ba7205733`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).