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Providing prepaid postage for all election ballots. |
Providing prepaid postage for all election ballots. |
us/states/wa |
Washington Legislature |
2019-2020 |
SB 5063 |
Washington SB 5063 (2019-2020) |
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enacted |
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2 |
42 |
3 |
2018-12-31 |
2019-04-29 |
openstates |
ocd-bill/a5101adc-28fa-4e57-97a7-67c1faf19e86 |
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=5063&year=2019 |
12f25a6bda3155fc5e3b9105cdc6f63e3ec1253ae495d72da7b3339e665d24d3 |
2026-07-01 |
https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump |
2026-07-06 |
reported |
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Washington SB 5063 (2019-2020) — Providing prepaid postage for all election ballots.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Bill (committee substitute) — source
- Substitute Bill (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Final Passage as Amended by the House (#2) — 44–5 (pass) · upper
- Final Passage as Amended by the House (#41) — 83–10 (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#32) — 42–3 (pass) · upper
- Nguyen — primary (person)
- Billig — cosponsor (person)
- Carlyle — cosponsor (person)
- Cleveland — cosponsor (person)
- Conway — cosponsor (person)
- Darneille — cosponsor (person)
- Frockt — cosponsor (person)
- Hasegawa — cosponsor (person)
- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- Keiser — cosponsor (person)
- Kuderer — cosponsor (person)
- Mullet — cosponsor (person)
- Palumbo — cosponsor (person)
- Pedersen — cosponsor (person)
- Saldaña — cosponsor (person)
- Takko — cosponsor (person)
- Wilson, C. — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2018-12-31 Prefiled for introduction.
filing
- 2019-01-14 First reading, referred to State Government, Tribal Relations & Elections.
reading-1
- 2019-01-23 SGTE - Majority; do pass.
- 2019-01-23 And refer to Ways & Means.
referral-committee
- 2019-01-24 Referred to Ways & Means.
- 2019-02-26 WM - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
passage
- 2019-03-01 Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- 2019-03-05 Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- 2019-03-05 1st substitute bill substituted.
substitution
- 2019-02-26 WM - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
passage
- 2019-03-01 Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- 2019-03-05 Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- 2019-03-05 1st substitute bill substituted.
substitution
- 2019-03-05 Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- 2019-03-05 Third reading, passed; yeas, 42; nays, 3; absent, 0; excused, 4.
reading-3
- 2019-03-07 First reading, referred to State Government & Tribal Relations.
reading-1
- 2019-03-22 SGOV - Majority; do pass with amendment(s).
- 2019-03-26 Referred to Appropriations.
- 2019-04-08 APP - Majority; do pass with amendment(s) but without amendment(s) by State Government & Tribal Relations.
- 2019-04-08 Minority; do not pass.
- 2019-04-09 Referred to Rules 2 Review.
- 2019-04-11 Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading.
- 2019-04-12 Held on second reading.
- 2019-04-12 Committee amendment(s) adopted as amended.
- 2019-04-12 Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- 2019-04-12 Third reading, passed; yeas, 83; nays, 10; absent, 0; excused, 5.
reading-3
- 2019-04-18 Senate concurred in House amendments.
- 2019-04-18 Passed final passage; yeas, 44; nays, 5; absent, 0; excused, 0.
passage
- 2019-04-23 President signed.
passage
- 2019-04-24 Speaker signed.
passage
- 2019-04-25 Delivered to Governor.
- 2019-04-29 Governor signed.
executive-signature
- 2019-04-29 Chapter 161, 2019 Laws.
became-law
- 2019-04-29 Effective date 7/1/2019.
became-law
- 2019-01-16T13:00:00+00:00 Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on State Government, Tribal Relations & Elections at 08:00 AM
- 2019-01-23T13:00:00+00:00 Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on State Government, Tribal Relations & Elections at 08:00 AM
- 2019-02-05T20:30:00+00:00 Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 03:30 PM
- 2019-02-26T18:30:00+00:00 Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 01:30 PM
- 2019-03-15T12:00:00+00:00 Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations at 08:00 AM
- 2019-03-22T12:00:00+00:00 Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations at 08:00 AM
- 2019-04-06T13:00:00+00:00 Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 09:00 AM
- 2019-04-08T13:00:00+00:00 Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 09:00 AM
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a5101adc-28fa-4e57-97a7-67c1faf19e86. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
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