---
type: "Bill"
title: "Criminalizing damaging, destroying, tampering, or removing ballot return boxes or contents."
description: "Criminalizing damaging, destroying, tampering, or removing ballot return boxes or contents."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "SB 5336"
citation: "Washington SB 5336 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["SENTENCING", "CRIMES", "ELECTIONS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Miloscia"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-01-20"
last_action: "2017-05-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/233bf17a-5bb5-49b1-b6ef-fc0811f8ee11"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=5336&year=2017"
source_hash: "ab7a986cd4705444ce2215c605b2ae591dc2e3b38f7dd2532131870b85905113"
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 5336 (2017-2018) — Criminalizing damaging, destroying, tampering, or removing ballot return boxes or contents.

## 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/Senate%20Bills/5336.htm)

## Votes

- Final Passage as Amended by the House (#5) — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- Final Passage as Amended by the House (#10) — **97–1** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#9) — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Miloscia — primary (person)
- Fortunato — cosponsor (person)
- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- Kuderer — cosponsor (person)
- Wellman — cosponsor (person)
- Zeiger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-20** First reading, referred to Law & Justice. `reading-1`
- **2017-02-01** LAW - Majority; do pass.
- **2017-02-02** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2017-03-06** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2017-03-08** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2017-03-08** Third reading, passed; yeas, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2017-03-10** First reading, referred to Public Safety (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). `reading-1`
- **2017-03-27** PS - Majority; do pass with amendment(s).
- **2017-03-29** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
- **2017-04-12** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading.
- **2017-04-12** Committee amendment(s) adopted with no other amendments.
- **2017-04-12** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2017-04-12** Third reading, passed; yeas, 97; nays, 1; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2017-04-18** Senate concurred in House amendments.
- **2017-04-18** Passed final passage; yeas, 48; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1. `passage`
- **2017-04-19** President signed. `passage`
- **2017-04-20** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2017-04-21** Delivered to Governor.
- **2017-05-10** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-10** Chapter 283, 2017 Laws. `became-law`
- **2017-05-10** 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/233bf17a-5bb5-49b1-b6ef-fc0811f8ee11`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).