3SSB 5466 — Transit-oriented development
3SSB 5466 was introduced in the 2023-24 Washington legislative session. It received 4 public hearings 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
- 4 public hearings
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 Capital Budget — the last committee with this bill on an agenda
- Public hearing
- Yes — 4 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.
Promoting transit-oriented development.
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.
SENATE · 2023-03-01
3rd Reading & Final Passage
40
yea
8
nay
1
absent or excused
Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-12 · 1 recorded vote
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-01-31 | Public | Senate Local Government, Land Use & Tribal Affairs | Senate |
| 2023-02-07 | Executive | Senate Local Government, Land Use & Tribal Affairs | Senate |
| 2023-02-13 | Public | Senate Transportation | Senate |
| 2023-02-23 | Executive | Senate Transportation | Senate |
| 2023-03-16 | Public | House Housing | House |
| 2023-03-28 | Executive | House Housing | House |
| 2023-03-30 | Public | House Capital Budget | House |
| 2023-03-31 | Executive | House Capital Budget | House |
Source WA Legislature committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-12 · 4 public, 4 executive
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What changed between versions
Only one version on file. The bill was never substituted or engrossed, or the legislation service returns only the surviving version for this session — for completed biennia it usually returns the latter.
Last checked 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 Capital Budget
joined on: cutoff calendar + last journal action
SB 5466 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 3SSB 5466?
- 3SSB 5466 did not become law. It stopped in House Capital Budget. The 2023-24 session ended without it passing both chambers, so it is not law.
- Who sponsored 3SSB 5466?
- The legislation service returns no prime sponsor for 3SSB 5466, so the record we read is silent on who introduced it.
- What would 3SSB 5466 do?
- In the Legislature’s own description: “Promoting transit-oriented development.” We quote the official language rather than summarising, because a paraphrase of legislation is an interpretation.
- Was there a recorded vote on 3SSB 5466?
- Yes. 1 recorded floor vote appears on this page, member counts and all. Committee votes are held separately as scanned sign-off sheets and are not counted here.
- Did 3SSB 5466 get a public hearing?
- Yes — 4 public hearings are 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.
“3SSB 5466 — Transit-oriented development,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-12, accessed 2026-08-20. https://washingtonindependents.org/bill/2023-24-sb-5466/
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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.