---
type: "Bill"
title: "Enacting the uniform faithful presidential electors act."
description: "Enacting the uniform faithful presidential electors act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "SB 5074"
citation: "Washington SB 5074 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ELECTIONS", "NAMED ACTS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kuderer"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-04"
last_action: "2019-04-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a643fa13-c329-4f76-a053-dd5186c3c7c8"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=5074&year=2019"
source_hash: "d6a9451fab9dc32da92ec5b44bd6751ab7a7d544eddd9aaaa93ba1fe78762c3a"
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 5074 (2019-2020) — Enacting the uniform faithful presidential electors 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/2019-20/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5074.htm)

## Votes

- Final Passage (#23) — **52–43** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#16) — **29–20** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kuderer — primary (person)
- Conway — cosponsor (person)
- Darneille — cosponsor (person)
- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- Nguyen — cosponsor (person)
- Palumbo — cosponsor (person)
- Pedersen — cosponsor (person)
- Saldaña — cosponsor (person)
- Wellman — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-04** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
- **2019-01-14** First reading, referred to State Government, Tribal Relations & Elections. `reading-1`
- **2019-02-06** SGTE - Majority; do pass.
- **2019-02-06** Minority; do not pass.
- **2019-02-06** Minority; without recommendation.
- **2019-02-07** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2019-02-19** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2019-02-26** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2019-02-26** Third reading, passed; yeas, 29; nays, 20; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2019-02-27** First reading, referred to State Government & Tribal Relations. `reading-1`
- **2019-03-22** SGOV - Majority; do pass.
- **2019-03-22** Minority; do not pass.
- **2019-03-25** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
- **2019-04-09** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading.
- **2019-04-12** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2019-04-12** Third reading, passed; yeas, 52; nays, 43; absent, 0; excused, 3. `reading-3`
- **2019-04-15** President signed. `passage`
- **2019-04-18** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2019-04-22** Delivered to Governor.
- **2019-04-26** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-26** Chapter 143, 2019 Laws. `became-law`
- **2019-04-26** Effective date 7/28/2019. `became-law`
- **2019-02-01T18:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on State Government, Tribal Relations & Elections at 01:30 PM
- **2019-02-06T13:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on State Government, Tribal Relations & Elections at 08:00 AM
- **2019-03-15T12:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations at 08:00 AM
- **2019-03-22T12:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations at 08:00 AM

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a643fa13-c329-4f76-a053-dd5186c3c7c8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).