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Expanding powers granted to state historical societies. |
Expanding powers granted to state historical societies. |
us/states/wa |
Washington Legislature |
2019-2020 |
HB 2837 |
Washington HB 2837 (2019-2020) |
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enacted |
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23 |
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2020-01-24 |
2020-03-18 |
openstates |
ocd-bill/d60e6195-57d2-4665-80cc-cc72fef90fa9 |
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=2837&year=2019 |
3734c3166aae6a9c28a8c43eaa2dc36290287a54a9315ae03501dbe0743290e9 |
2026-07-01 |
https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump |
2026-07-06 |
reported |
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Washington HB 2837 (2019-2020) — Expanding powers granted to state historical societies.
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 (#48) — 49–0 (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#16) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
- Boehnke — primary (person)
- Hudgins — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2020-01-24 First reading, referred to State Government & Tribal Relations.
reading-1
- 2020-02-07 SGOV - Majority; do pass.
- 2020-02-07 Minority; do not pass.
- 2020-02-07 Referred to Rules 2 Review.
- 2020-02-19 Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading.
- 2020-02-19 Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- 2020-02-19 Third reading, passed; yeas, 98; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0.
reading-3
- 2020-02-21 First reading, referred to State Government, Tribal Relations & Elections.
reading-1
- 2020-02-28 SGTE - Majority; do pass.
- 2020-02-28 Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- 2020-03-02 Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- 2020-03-03 Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- 2020-03-03 Third reading, passed; yeas, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0.
reading-3
- 2020-03-06 Speaker signed.
passage
- 2020-03-07 President signed.
passage
- 2020-03-09 Delivered to Governor.
- 2020-03-18 Governor signed.
executive-signature
- 2020-03-18 Chapter 48, 2020 Laws.
became-law
- 2020-03-18 Effective date 6/11/2020.
became-law
- 2020-02-05T18:30:00+00:00 Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations at 01:30 PM
- 2020-02-07T13:00:00+00:00 Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations at 08:00 AM
- 2020-02-26T13:00:00+00:00 Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on State Government, Tribal Relations & Elections at 08:00 AM
- 2020-02-28T18:30:00+00:00 Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on State Government, Tribal Relations & Elections at 01:30 PM
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d60e6195-57d2-4665-80cc-cc72fef90fa9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
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