E2SHB 1174 — Jail-based voting
E2SHB 1174 was introduced in the 2023-24 Washington legislative session. It received 1 public hearing and did not become law.
Dying without a vote is the ordinary outcome for a Washington bill, not a scandal and not a failure of any one person. This page shows where it stopped, who was recorded, and what the record does not say.
- 2023-24 session
- Did not become law
- 1 public hearing
Source Washington State Legislature web services: legislation, hearings and roll calls · as of 2026-08-12
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Where it stopped
Died
- Last committee
- House State Government & Tribal Relations — the last committee with this bill on an agenda
- Public hearing
- Yes — 1 on record — a public hearing is where testimony is taken; an executive session is where a committee votes
Source WA Legislature legislation service · as of 2026-08-12
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What it would do
The Legislature’s own description. We do not paraphrase legislation.
Improving access and removing barriers to jail-based voting.
Source WA Legislature legislation service · as of 2026-08-12
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The votes
Recorded floor votes. Committee votes are in the hearing record below.
No recorded floor vote. The bill never reached the floor of either chamber, so no member is on record for or against it.
Last checked 2026-08-12
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Sponsors
Who put their name to the bill. The Legislature records a prime sponsor on the bill status; the full co-sponsor roster appears only in the introduced bill text, which we have not ingested.
No sponsor on file. The legislation service returns no prime sponsor for this bill. That is a gap in the record we read, not a bill that was introduced by no one.
Last checked 2026-08-12
Source WA Legislature legislation service · as of 2026-08-12
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The hearing record
Every committee meeting where this bill appeared on the agenda. Public is where testimony is taken; Executive is where the committee votes.
| Date | Type | Committee | Chamber |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-01-13 | Public | House State Government & Tribal Relations | House |
| 2023-01-31 | Executive | House State Government & Tribal Relations | House |
Source WA Legislature committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-12 · 1 public, 1 executive
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What changed between versions
| Version | Substitute | Engrossed | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB 1174 | — | — | By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status. |
| SHB 1174 | 1 | — | By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status. |
| E2SHB 1174 | 2 | 1 | — |
We do not hold the bill text, so we cannot say what changed. The version list shows that the bill was rewritten and how many times. Comparing the substance of two versions needs the text of each, which we have not ingested. The Legislature publishes both.
Last checked 2026-08-12
Source WA Legislature legislation service · as of 2026-08-12
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Connected records
Every link in this section is an edge in the entity graph: a row in one table, carrying the document that states it. Grouped by how well the record supports it.
Composite · 1
Two documents joined on a key, and the key is named here.
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DIED IN · biennium 2023-24
House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations
joined on: cutoff calendar + last journal action
HB 1174 status history, 2023-24 — bill summary, WA State Legislature · as of 2024-12-31
Source Entity graph, synced from the pipeline · as of 2026-08-12 · Votes are in the graph but render as roll-call tables above, not as rows here. Hearings, referrals and companion bills are not in the graph yet.
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What this page will not compute
Each of these is a number a reader might reasonably expect. None of them follow from the records we hold, so we do not publish them.
- Who killed it
- We can say a bill was never scheduled for a public hearing. We cannot say who decided that. Chairs control agendas, but the record does not attribute a non-decision to a person, and we will not infer one from a committee roster.
- Why it died
- Withdrawn, superseded by its own companion, folded into a budget, or simply never taken up — all four look identical in the data.
- Whether lobbying affected it
- Washington collects lobbyist compensation and employer registrations, but none of those filings name a bill. There is no documented link between a lobbying report and a bill number, so we publish none.
- What changed between versions
- We hold the version list, not the text of each version.
- How a member would have voted
- Only recorded votes appear here. A member absent from a roll call is recorded as absent, not as opposed.
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Common questions
- What happened to E2SHB 1174?
- E2SHB 1174 did not become law. It stopped in House State Government & Tribal Relations. The 2023-24 session ended without it passing both chambers, so it is not law.
- Who sponsored E2SHB 1174?
- The legislation service returns no prime sponsor for E2SHB 1174, so the record we read is silent on who introduced it.
- What would E2SHB 1174 do?
- In the Legislature’s own description: “Improving access and removing barriers to jail-based voting.” We quote the official language rather than summarising, because a paraphrase of legislation is an interpretation.
- Was there a recorded vote on E2SHB 1174?
- E2SHB 1174 never reached a recorded floor vote in either chamber, so no member is on record for or against it.
- Did E2SHB 1174 get a public hearing?
- Yes — 1 public hearing is on record. A public hearing is where testimony is taken; it is not the committee vote, which happens in an executive session.
Cite this page
This is public-records reporting. Use it, and say where it came from.
“E2SHB 1174 — Jail-based voting,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-12, accessed 2026-08-19. https://washingtonindependents.org/bill/2023-24-hb-1174/
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How this page is built
Every figure above is read from a primary source and rebuilt on a schedule. Nothing here is modelled or inferred; where a source is silent the page says so rather than filling the gap.
- WA Legislature legislation service
- Bill id, titles, sponsor, introduced date, and the history line and location code we render as its status.
- WA Legislature committee hearing records
- Every committee agenda this bill appeared on, and whether each was a public hearing or an executive session.
- WA Legislature roll call service
- Recorded floor votes, member by member.
- Outcome
- Derived, not published by the Legislature. Enacted means a chapter number or effective date is on record; died is only ever assigned once a session has ended; a sitting session yields pending and no death is asserted.
- Not loaded
- Bill text, amendments, committee votes as individual member records, testimony, and fiscal notes.