---
type: "Bill"
title: "Requiring the display of the national league of families' POW/MIA flag on certain days."
description: "Requiring the display of the national league of families' POW/MIA flag on certain days."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "HB 1204"
citation: "Washington HB 1204 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES", "MILITARY", "VETERANS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Young"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-13"
last_action: "2017-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a349197-b138-4233-a0c5-7299c5fce013"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1204&year=2017"
source_hash: "59f4439a34490b9e68223b5597ce757398fe42d24a5c584484b2fa14d8b906f3"
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 1204 (2017-2018) — Requiring the display of the national league of families' POW/MIA flag on certain days.

## 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/House%20Bills/1204.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#5) — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- Final Passage (#37) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Young — primary (person)
- McCaslin — cosponsor (person)
- Shea — cosponsor (person)
- Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Walsh — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-13** First reading, referred to State Government (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). `reading-1`
- **2017-02-01** SEIT - Majority; do pass.
- **2017-02-03** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
- **2017-03-01** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading.
- **2017-03-07** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2017-03-07** Third reading, passed; yeas, 97; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2017-03-09** First reading, referred to State Government. `reading-1`
- **2017-03-29** SGOV - Majority; do pass.
- **2017-03-29** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2017-04-04** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2017-04-05** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2017-04-05** Third reading, passed; yeas, 48; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2017-04-10** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2017-04-11** President signed. `passage`
- **2017-04-14** Delivered to Governor.
- **2017-04-20** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2017-04-20** Chapter 79, 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/3a349197-b138-4233-a0c5-7299c5fce013`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).