republic-os/legislation/us/states/wa/2023-2024/sb-6157.md

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Bill	Reforming civil service to permit deferred action for childhood arrivals recipients to apply for civil service and incorporate civil service advantage for bilingual and multilingual applicants, applicants with higher education, and applicants with prior work experience in social services.	Reforming civil service to permit deferred action for childhood arrivals recipients to apply for civil service and incorporate civil service advantage for bilingual and multilingual applicants, applicants with higher education, and applicants with prior work experience in social services.	us/states/wa	Washington Legislature	2023-2024	SB 6157	Washington SB 6157 (2023-2024)	bill		enacted	Lovick	3	31	3	2024-01-11	2024-03-28	openstates	ocd-bill/18c5a8fc-ead1-4074-9a2e-77fc66d62996	http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=6157&year=2023	5206dd9f3b28d925fb52969e633a6234c91d37d0061b4d43a692308e166de877	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wa

Washington SB 6157 (2023-2024) — Reforming civil service to permit deferred action for childhood arrivals recipients to apply for civil service and incorporate civil service advantage for bilingual and multilingual applicants, applicants with higher education, and applicants with prior work experience in social services.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Bill (committee substitute) — source
2. Substitute Bill (committee substitute) — source
3. Substitute Passed Legislature (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#37) — 46–1 (pass) · upper
• Final Passage as Amended by the House (#30) — 49–0 (pass) · upper
• Final Passage as Amended by the House (#37) — 83–11 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Lovick — primary (person)
• C. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• Hasegawa — cosponsor (person)
• Hunt — cosponsor (person)
• Kuderer — cosponsor (person)
• Saldaña — cosponsor (person)
• Salomon — cosponsor (person)
• Torres — cosponsor (person)
• Trudeau — cosponsor (person)
• Valdez — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-11 First reading, referred to State Government & Elections. reading-1
• 2024-01-26 Public hearing in the Senate Committee on State Government & Elections at 8:00 AM.
• 2024-01-30 Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on State Government & Elections at 1:30 PM.
• 2024-01-30 SGE - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. substitution
• 2024-01-30 Minority; without recommendation. committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2024-01-31 Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
• 2024-02-06 Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. reading-2
• 2024-02-07 1st substitute bill substituted (SGE 24). substitution
• 2024-02-07 Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. reading-3
• 2024-02-07 Third reading, passed; yeas, 46; nays, 1; absent, 0; excused, 2. reading-3
• 2024-02-09 First reading, referred to State Government & Tribal Relations. reading-1
• 2024-02-14 Public hearing in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations at 1:30 PM.
• 2024-02-16 Executive session scheduled, but no action was taken in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations at 8:00 AM.
• 2024-02-20 Executive session scheduled, but no action was taken in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations at 1:30 PM.
• 2024-02-21 Executive action taken in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations at 1:30 PM.
• 2024-02-21 SGOV - Majority; do pass. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-21 Minority; do not pass. committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2024-02-21 Minority; without recommendation. committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2024-02-21 Referred to Rules 2 Review. referral-committee
• 2024-02-24 Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. reading-2
• 2024-02-27 Floor amendment(s) adopted.
• 2024-02-27 Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. reading-3
• 2024-02-27 Third reading, passed; yeas, 83; nays, 11; absent, 0; excused, 4. reading-3
• 2024-03-05 Senate concurred in House amendments.
• 2024-03-05 Passed final passage; yeas, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. passage
• 2024-03-07 President signed. passage
• 2024-03-07 Speaker signed. passage
• 2024-03-08 Delivered to Governor. executive-receipt
• 2024-03-28 Governor signed. executive-signature
• 2024-03-28 Chapter 330, 2024 Laws. became-law
• 2024-03-28 Effective date 6/6/2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/18c5a8fc-ead1-4074-9a2e-77fc66d62996. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).