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E4SHB 1481 — AFDC contracts

E4SHB 1481 was introduced in the 1995-96 Washington legislative session by WAYSCooke. It never received a 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.

  • 1995-96 session
  • House
  • Did not become law
  • No public hearing
  • Sponsor: WAYS(Cooke

Source Washington State Legislature web services: legislation, hearings and roll calls · as of 2026-08-12 · introduced 1996-01-29

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Where it stopped

Died

Last recorded action
Referred to Rules 3 Consideration.
Position
H Rules 3C — the Legislature's own location code
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.

Requiring AFDC contracts and making additional changes in public assistance laws.

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 · 1995-03-03

AMD 94 COOKE ON PAGE 4

56

yea

34

nay

8

absent or excused

HOUSE · 1995-03-03

AMD 95 ROMERO ON PAGE 4

40

yea

55

nay

3

absent or excused

HOUSE · 1995-03-03

AMD 96 CHOPP ON PAGE 4

32

yea

63

nay

3

absent or excused

HOUSE · 1995-03-03

AMD 97 PATTERSON ON PAGE 4

39

yea

57

nay

2

absent or excused

HOUSE · 1995-03-03

AMD 98 PATTERSON ON PAGE 9

96

yea

0

nay

2

absent or excused

HOUSE · 1995-03-03

AMD 99 BROWN ON PAGE 9

39

yea

57

nay

2

absent or excused

HOUSE · 1995-03-03

AMD 103 SOMMERS STRIKE EVERYTHING

31

yea

65

nay

2

absent or excused

HOUSE · 1995-03-03

Final Passage

63

yea

33

nay

2

absent or excused

HOUSE · 1996-02-12

AMD 242 KESSLER

38

yea

59

nay

1

absent or excused

HOUSE · 1996-02-12

AMD TO AMD

60

yea

37

nay

1

absent or excused

HOUSE · 1996-02-12

AMD 109 TOKUDA

36

yea

61

nay

1

absent or excused

HOUSE · 1996-02-12

Final Passage

61

yea

36

nay

1

absent or excused

SENATE · 1996-02-29

Final Passage

31

yea

16

nay

2

absent or excused

Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-12 · 13 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

WAYS(Cooke

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 1995-96 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

Versions of this bill
Version Substitute Engrossed Status
HB 1481 — — 2nd substitute bill substituted.
SHB 1481 1 — 2nd substitute bill substituted.
E2SHB 1481 2 1 4th substitute bill substituted.
3SHB 1481 3 — 4th substitute bill substituted.
E4SHB 1481 4 1 Referred to Rules 3 Consideration.

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.

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 E4SHB 1481?
E4SHB 1481 did not become law. It stopped in House Committee on Rules. The 1995-96 session ended without it passing both chambers, so it is not law.
Who sponsored E4SHB 1481?
The prime sponsor of record is WAYS(Cooke, 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 E4SHB 1481 do?
In the Legislature’s own description: “Requiring AFDC contracts and making additional changes in public assistance laws.” We quote the official language rather than summarising, because a paraphrase of legislation is an interpretation.
Was there a recorded vote on E4SHB 1481?
Yes. 13 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 E4SHB 1481 get a public hearing?
Committee hearing records for the 1995-96 session are not available to us, so whether E4SHB 1481 was publicly heard cannot be established either way.

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“E4SHB 1481 — AFDC contracts,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-12, accessed 2026-09-01. https://washingtonindependents.org/bill/1995-96-hb-1481/

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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.