---
type: "Bill"
title: "Enhancing the Washington voting rights act."
description: "Enhancing the Washington voting rights act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "HB 1048"
citation: "Washington HB 1048 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mena"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 29
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-12-16"
last_action: "2023-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ec88b2b7-b36b-4c51-aceb-199a8c6e1dc5"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1048&year=2023"
source_hash: "0fbc0266ab1962eb5081eef83a44fec6e4e13d64cdea419c5781ddd905f809c8"
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 1048 (2023-2024) — Enhancing the Washington voting rights 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/2023-24/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1048.htm)
2. **Engrossed Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1048-S.E.htm)
3. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1048-S.htm)
4. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1048-S.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#35) — **57–38** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#16) — **27–21** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mena — primary (person)
- Bergquist — cosponsor (person)
- Berry — cosponsor (person)
- Cortes — cosponsor (person)
- Doglio — cosponsor (person)
- Farivar — cosponsor (person)
- Goodman — cosponsor (person)
- Gregerson — cosponsor (person)
- Macri — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Ormsby — cosponsor (person)
- Peterson — cosponsor (person)
- Pollet — cosponsor (person)
- Ramel — cosponsor (person)
- Santos — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons — cosponsor (person)
- Street — cosponsor (person)
- Wylie — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-12-16** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
- **2023-01-09** First reading, referred to State Government & Tribal Relations. `reading-1`
- **2023-01-13** Public hearing in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations at 8:00 AM.
- **2023-01-18** Executive session scheduled, but no action was taken in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations at 1:30 PM.
- **2023-01-20** Executive action taken in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations at 8:00 AM.
- **2023-01-20** SGOV - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
- **2023-01-20** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2023-01-24** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-02** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2023-03-04** 1st substitute bill substituted (SGOV 23). `substitution`
- **2023-03-04** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
- **2023-03-04** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-03-04** Third reading, passed; yeas, 57; nays, 38; absent, 0; excused, 3. `reading-3`
- **2023-03-07** First reading, referred to State Government & Elections. `reading-1`
- **2023-03-14** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on State Government & Elections at 1:30 PM.
- **2023-03-17** Executive session scheduled, but no action was taken in the Senate Committee on State Government & Elections at 8:00 AM.
- **2023-03-24** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on State Government & Elections at 8:00 AM.
- **2023-03-24** SGE - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-24** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2023-03-27** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2023-03-30** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2023-04-05** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-05** Third reading, passed; yeas, 27; nays, 21; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-06** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2023-04-06** President signed. `passage`
- **2023-04-07** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-04-13** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2023-04-13** Chapter 56, 2023 Laws. `became-law`
- **2023-04-13** Effective date 1/1/2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ec88b2b7-b36b-4c51-aceb-199a8c6e1dc5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).