---
type: "Bill"
title: "Declaring October as Filipino American history month."
description: "Declaring October as Filipino American history month."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "SB 5865"
citation: "Washington SB 5865 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES", "MINORITIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hasegawa"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-07"
last_action: "2019-05-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/acdf9fe2-a03d-487a-a7c4-feeb5ec93938"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=5865&year=2019"
source_hash: "e0f0d94dadbbbe6d9f73ec3d92ff3fcb3c752112115a38ff070d599ab5c60a20"
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 5865 (2019-2020) — Declaring October as Filipino American history month.

## 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/5865.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#27) — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- Final Passage (#18) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hasegawa — primary (person)
- Billig — cosponsor (person)
- Conway — cosponsor (person)
- Dhingra — cosponsor (person)
- Honeyford — cosponsor (person)
- King — cosponsor (person)
- Nguyen — cosponsor (person)
- Randall — cosponsor (person)
- Saldaña — cosponsor (person)
- Schoesler — cosponsor (person)
- Wilson, C. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-07** First reading, referred to State Government, Tribal Relations & Elections. `reading-1`
- **2019-02-21** SGTE - Majority; do pass.
- **2019-02-22** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2019-03-05** Placed on second reading consent calendar.
- **2019-03-05** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2019-03-05** Third reading, passed; yeas, 48; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2019-03-07** First reading, referred to State Government & Tribal Relations. `reading-1`
- **2019-03-27** SGOV - Majority; do pass.
- **2019-03-29** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
- **2019-04-10** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading.
- **2019-04-17** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2019-04-17** Third reading, passed; yeas, 98; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2019-04-18** President signed. `passage`
- **2019-04-23** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2019-04-23** Delivered to Governor.
- **2019-05-07** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-07** Chapter 283, 2019 Laws. `became-law`
- **2019-05-07** Effective date 7/28/2019. `became-law`
- **2019-02-20T13:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on State Government, Tribal Relations & Elections at 08:00 AM
- **2019-02-21T22:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on State Government, Tribal Relations & Elections at 05:30 PM
- **2019-03-27T17:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations at 01:30 PM
- **2019-03-20T17:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations at 01:30 PM

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/acdf9fe2-a03d-487a-a7c4-feeb5ec93938`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).