SSB 5968 — 1993-95 operating budget
SSB 5968 was introduced in the 1993-94 Washington legislative session by WMRinehart. It became law.
- 1993-94 session
- Senate
- Became law
- No public hearing
- Sponsor: WM(Rinehart
Source Washington State Legislature web services: legislation, hearings and roll calls · as of 2026-08-12 · introduced 1993-04-01
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Where it stopped
Became law
- Last recorded action
- Chapter 24, 1993 Laws 1st Special Session PV
- Session law
- C 24 L 93 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.
Making appropriations.
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 · 1993-04-01
Final Passage
27
yea
22
nay
SENATE · 1993-04-01
MOTION BY SENATOR GASPARD TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PLACE THE BILL ON THIRD READING – FAILED TO RECEIVE 2/3 VOTE.
28
yea
17
nay
4
absent or excused
HOUSE · 1993-04-16
Final Passage
57
yea
41
nay
HOUSE · 1993-04-16
AMD 514 CHAPPELL
73
yea
25
nay
HOUSE · 1993-04-16
AMD 569 SCHOESLER
46
yea
52
nay
HOUSE · 1993-04-16
AMD 513 CARLSON
43
yea
55
nay
HOUSE · 1993-04-16
AMD 542 SILVER
42
yea
56
nay
HOUSE · 1993-04-16
AMD 631 PADDEN
39
yea
59
nay
HOUSE · 1993-04-16
AMD 630 SILVER
35
yea
63
nay
HOUSE · 1993-04-16
AMD 539 SILVER
39
yea
59
nay
HOUSE · 1993-04-30
Final Passage
54
yea
37
nay
7
absent or excused
SENATE · 1993-04-30
Final Passage
26
yea
18
nay
5
absent or excused
HOUSE · 1993-05-06
Final Passage
52
yea
46
nay
SENATE · 1993-05-06
Final Passage
26
yea
22
nay
1
absent or excused
Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-12 · 14 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
WM(Rinehart
as printed the sponsor line on the bill status record · introduced in the Senate. 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 1993-94 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SB 5968 | — | — | 1st substitute bill substituted. |
| SSB 5968 | 1 | — | Chapter 24, 1993 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 SSB 5968?
- SSB 5968 became law. The Legislature’s status record places it at “C 24 L 93 E1” — its chapter and year in the session laws.
- Who sponsored SSB 5968?
- The prime sponsor of record is WM(Rinehart, 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 SSB 5968 do?
- In the Legislature’s own description: “Making appropriations.” We quote the official language rather than summarising, because a paraphrase of legislation is an interpretation.
- Was there a recorded vote on SSB 5968?
- Yes. 14 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 SSB 5968 get a public hearing?
- Committee hearing records for the 1993-94 session are not available to us, so whether SSB 5968 was publicly heard cannot be established either way.
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“SSB 5968 — 1993-95 operating budget,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-12, accessed 2026-08-28. https://washingtonindependents.org/bill/1993-94-sb-5968/
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How this page is built
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- 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.