SSB 5094 — Personal flotation devices
SSB 5094 was introduced in the 1999-00 Washington legislative session by Oke. 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.
- 1999-00 session
- Senate
- Did not become law
- No public hearing
- Sponsor: Oke
Source Washington State Legislature web services: legislation, hearings and roll calls · as of 2026-09-09 · introduced 1999-01-28
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Where it stopped
Died
- Last recorded action
- Rules committee relieved of further consideration; referred to Natural Resources, Parks & Recreation.
- Position
- S Nat/Res/Pks — 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 bill history — every row links to the chamber record that establishes it · as of 2026-09-09 · how a stop point is read
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What it would do
The Legislature’s own description. We do not paraphrase legislation.
Concerning personal flotation devices.
Source WA Legislature bill digest and text, quoted whole · as of 2026-09-09 · edits none — we write no summary of our own
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The votes
Recorded floor votes. Committee votes are in the hearing record below.
SENATE · 1999-02-19
Final Passage
34
yea
10
nay
5
absent or excused
This roll call is not broken out by caucus. We hold every member’s vote. What we do not hold for this session is the chamber roster that says which caucus each of them belonged to — the roll call itself prints a surname and nothing more. Matching a surname to a party is the name-only identity join this site refuses everywhere else, so the split is withheld rather than guessed, and the totals above stand as filed.
Sources WA Legislature roll-call archive (floor); chamber roster for party · as of 2026-09-09 · rows 1 recorded vote · key member id printed on the roll call, joined to the chamber roster — never a surname · seats the denominator is the constitutional chamber, 98 House and 49 Senate, not our roster · note committee votes are published as sign-off sheets, not roll calls, and are not counted here; the caucus split is withheld where we hold no roster for the session
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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
Oke
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 2026-09-09
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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. Anyone may register a position on a bill before its hearing without speaking. Those sign-ins are a public record of who showed up — they are not a poll, not a sample of the state, and not a measure of public opinion. They count the people who knew the hearing was happening.
Committee hearing records for the 1999-00 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 2026-09-09
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What changed between versions
| Version | Substitute | Engrossed | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| SB 5094 | — | — | 1st substitute bill substituted. |
| SSB 5094 | 1 | — | Rules committee relieved of further consideration; referred to Natural Resources, Parks & Recreation. |
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 2026-09-09
Source WA Legislature bill text archive, every version · as of 2026-09-09 · note versions are listed, not compared — a field-by-field diff is prepared by a person or not at all
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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, and the summary feed we hold of them carries no bill column — checked against lobbyist_compensation and lobbyist_reporting, neither of which has one. So we hold no documented link between a lobbying report and a bill number and publish none. That is a limit of the extract, not a claim that no filing anywhere names a bill: reading the L-2 report body is what it would take to find out.
- 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.
- Sign-ins as public opinion
- A hearing sign-in sheet counts the people who knew the hearing was happening and could reach it. It is a public record of who showed up, not a poll, not a sample of the state, and not a measure of what Washington thinks. A bill with more sign-ins against it than for it has not been voted down by the public.
- An importance score
- No ranking of this bill against others, no “major legislation” badge, no prediction of what it will do next. Every bill gets the same page whether it passed, died, or was never heard, and there is no editorial selection of which bills receive one.
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Common questions
- What happened to SSB 5094?
- SSB 5094 did not become law. The 1999-00 session ended without it passing both chambers, so it is not law.
- Who sponsored SSB 5094?
- The prime sponsor of record is Oke, 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 5094 do?
- In the Legislature’s own description: “Concerning personal flotation devices.” We quote the official language rather than summarising, because a paraphrase of legislation is an interpretation.
- Was there a recorded vote on SSB 5094?
- 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 SSB 5094 get a public hearing?
- Committee hearing records for the 1999-00 session are not available to us, so whether SSB 5094 was publicly heard cannot be established either way.
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“SSB 5094 — Personal flotation devices,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-09-09, accessed 2026-09-16. https://washingtonindependents.org/bill/1999-00-sb-5094/
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