ESHB 1427 — Capital budget
ESHB 1427 was introduced in the 1991-92 Washington legislative session by Sommers, H.. It became law.
- 1991-92 session
- House
- Became law
- No public hearing
- Sponsor: Sommers, H.
Source Washington State Legislature web services: legislation, hearings and roll calls · as of 2026-08-12 · introduced 1991-04-10
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Where it stopped
Became law
- Last recorded action
- Chapter 14, 1991 Laws 1st Special Session PV
- Session law
- C 14 L 91 E1 — chapter and year in the session laws
- Public hearing
- Not established — no hearing records for this session — 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.
Adopting the capital budget.
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.
HOUSE · 1991-04-12
AMD 524/HOCHSTATTER P80 L28
39
yea
57
nay
2
absent or excused
HOUSE · 1991-04-12
AMD 525/MORTON P80 L28
47
yea
49
nay
2
absent or excused
HOUSE · 1991-04-12
AMD 520/WINSLEY P170 L31
49
yea
45
nay
4
absent or excused
HOUSE · 1991-04-12
AMD 540/BROUGH P1 L5; P113 L1 TO AMENDMENT 528
38
yea
57
nay
3
absent or excused
HOUSE · 1991-04-12
Final Passage
86
yea
10
nay
2
absent or excused
HOUSE · 1991-04-12
AMD 516/EDMONDSON P32 L20
42
yea
54
nay
2
absent or excused
HOUSE · 1991-04-12
AMD 518/WYNNE P32 L20
45
yea
49
nay
4
absent or excused
HOUSE · 1991-04-12
AMD 521/CASADA P32 L20
40
yea
56
nay
2
absent or excused
SENATE · 1991-04-24
Final Passage
35
yea
11
nay
3
absent or excused
SENATE · 1991-06-14
Final Passage
45
yea
2
nay
2
absent or excused
SENATE · 1991-06-28
Final Passage
32
yea
14
nay
3
absent or excused
HOUSE · 1991-06-29
Final Passage
77
yea
20
nay
1
absent or excused
Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-12 · 12 recorded votes
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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.
Prime sponsor
Sommers, H.
as printed the sponsor line on the bill status record · introduced in the House. A committee substitute prints the committee here, with the originating member in parentheses.
The co-sponsor roster is not on this page. We hold the prime sponsor the Legislature prints on the bill status, not the list of co-sponsors, which is published only in the introduced bill text we have not ingested. A co-sponsor count here would be a number no record we hold contains.
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.
Committee hearing records for the 1991-92 session are not available. The Legislature publishes committee hearing records from the 2003-04 session onward; for earlier sessions there is nothing to read. Whether this bill received a public hearing cannot be established either way, so we say nothing about it.
Last checked 2026-08-12
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What changed between versions
| Version | Substitute | Engrossed | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB 1427 | — | — | 1st substitute bill substituted. |
| ESHB 1427 | 1 | 1 | Chapter 14, 1991 Laws 1st Special Session PV |
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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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 ESHB 1427?
- ESHB 1427 became law. The Legislature’s status record places it at “C 14 L 91 E1” — its chapter and year in the session laws.
- Who sponsored ESHB 1427?
- The prime sponsor of record is Sommers, H., as printed on the bill status. This page does not list co-sponsors — that roster is published only in the introduced bill text, which we have not ingested.
- What would ESHB 1427 do?
- In the Legislature’s own description: “Adopting the capital budget.” We quote the official language rather than summarising, because a paraphrase of legislation is an interpretation.
- Was there a recorded vote on ESHB 1427?
- Yes. 12 recorded floor votes appear on this page, member counts and all. Committee votes are held separately as scanned sign-off sheets and are not counted here.
- Did ESHB 1427 get a public hearing?
- Committee hearing records for the 1991-92 session are not available to us, so whether ESHB 1427 was publicly heard cannot be established either way.
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“ESHB 1427 — Capital budget,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-12, accessed 2026-08-22. https://washingtonindependents.org/bill/1991-92-hb-1427/
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How this page is built
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- WA Legislature legislation service
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- 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.