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Clarifying the written consent requirement for survivorship benefit options. |
Clarifying the written consent requirement for survivorship benefit options. |
us/states/wa |
Washington Legislature |
2019-2020 |
HB 1408 |
Washington HB 1408 (2019-2020) |
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enacted |
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1 |
22 |
2 |
2019-01-21 |
2019-04-23 |
openstates |
ocd-bill/dc5b4524-1354-41ad-8eb6-b88947db4f63 |
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1408&year=2019 |
250c42387b48ed821f860177e7ec74104cd378c8d8c9b19249786b54216802bd |
2026-07-01 |
https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump |
2026-07-06 |
reported |
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Washington HB 1408 (2019-2020) — Clarifying the written consent requirement for survivorship benefit options.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Bill (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#16) — 45–1 (pass) · upper
- Final Passage (#28) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
- Volz — primary (person)
- Bergquist — cosponsor (person)
- Fitzgibbon — cosponsor (person)
- Ormsby — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2019-01-21 First reading, referred to Appropriations.
reading-1
- 2019-02-20 APP - Majority; do pass.
- 2019-02-22 Referred to Rules 2 Review.
- 2019-03-01 Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- 2019-03-04 Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- 2019-03-04 Third reading, passed; yeas, 96; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 2.
reading-3
- 2019-03-06 First reading, referred to Ways & Means.
reading-1
- 2019-03-18 WM - Majority; do pass.
- 2019-03-18 Minority; without recommendation.
- 2019-03-20 Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- 2019-04-02 Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- 2019-04-10 Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- 2019-04-10 Third reading, passed; yeas, 45; nays, 1; absent, 0; excused, 3.
reading-3
- 2019-04-15 Speaker signed.
passage
- 2019-04-16 President signed.
passage
- 2019-04-17 Delivered to Governor.
- 2019-04-23 Governor signed.
executive-signature
- 2019-04-23 Chapter 102, 2019 Laws.
became-law
- 2019-04-23 Effective date 7/28/2019.
became-law
- 2019-02-18T20:30:00+00:00 Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 03:30 PM
- 2019-02-20T20:30:00+00:00 Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 03:30 PM
- 2019-03-18T19:30:00+00:00 Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 03:30 PM
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dc5b4524-1354-41ad-8eb6-b88947db4f63. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
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