Bill · Washington State Legislature · 1997-98
HB 1959 — Wholesale car auctions/B & O
HB 1959 was introduced in the 1997-98 Washington legislative session by Robertson. It became law.
- 1997-98 session
- House
- Became law
- No public hearing
- Sponsor: Robertson
Source Washington State Legislature web services: legislation, hearings and roll calls · as of 2026-08-07 · introduced 1997-02-14
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Where it stopped
Became law
- Last recorded action
- Effective date 3/18/1997.
- Session law
- C 4 L 97 — 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 2026-08-07
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What it would do
The Legislature’s own description. We do not paraphrase legislation.
Providing business and occupation tax exemptions for wholesale car auctions.
Source WA Legislature legislation service · as of 2026-08-07
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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 1997-98 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 2026-08-07
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The votes
Recorded floor votes. Committee votes are in the hearing record above.
HOUSE · 1997-02-14
Final Passage
98
yea
0
nay
SENATE · 1997-03-12
Final Passage
46
yea
0
nay
3
absent or excused
Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-07 · 2 recorded votes
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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 2026-08-07
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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 None of them follow from the records we hold, so we do not publish them.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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Connected records
Every link this page draws, grouped by how well a document supports it.
On the record
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SPONSORED BY
Robertson
WA Legislature, bill sponsorship record
Same detail on two records — not a relationship
SHARES A SPONSOR
Other bills Robertson sponsored in the same session.
A sponsor in common is not a relationship between two bills. Legislators sponsor dozens of unrelated bills a session, and this list cannot be used as a step toward a claim about either one.
Nothing on file
No lobbying edge is published. Washington collects lobbyist filings but none of them name a bill, so there is no documented link to draw. No funding edge either: we do not join campaign money to legislation, because doing so would require inferring intent from two unrelated records.
Source WA Legislature legislation and committee services · as of 2026-08-07
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“HB 1959 — Wholesale car auctions/B & O,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-09. https://washingtonindependents.org/bill/1997-98-hb-1959/
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Where this page comes from
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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.