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ESB 6617 — UW altern. contract-awarding

ESB 6617 was introduced in the 2015-16 Washington legislative session by Frockt. It received 2 public hearings 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.

  • 2015-16 session
  • Senate
  • Did not become law
  • 2 public hearings
  • Sponsor: Frockt

Source Washington State Legislature web services: legislation, hearings and roll calls · as of 2026-09-09 · introduced 2016-01-29

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Where it stopped

Died

Last recorded action
Placed on third reading by Rules Committee.
Position
S 3rd Reading — the Legislature's own location code
Last committee
Senate Ways & Means — the last committee with this bill on an agenda
Public hearing
Yes — 2 on record — 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 the University of Washington's alternative process for awarding contracts.

Legal title AN ACT Relating to the University of Washington's alternative process for awarding contracts;

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 · 2016-02-16

3rd Reading & Final Passage

49

yea

0

nay

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.

Full roll call, every member by name

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

Frockt

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 record
Date Type Committee Chamber
2016-02-04 Executive Senate Higher Education Senate
2016-02-04 Public Senate Higher Education Senate
2016-02-08 Public Senate Ways & Means Senate
2016-02-09 Executive Senate Ways & Means Senate

Sign-in counts are not held for this session. The committee sign-in record we hold covers 2025-26. Whether anyone registered a position before these hearings cannot be read from what we have, so nothing is said about it.

Last checked 2026-09-09

Source WA Legislature committee hearing records · as of 2026-09-09 · rows 2 public, 2 executive · how hearings are read

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What changed between 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 2026-09-09

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Connected records

Everything below is a link some document draws for us. Nothing here is our inference. Grouped by how well the record supports it, always in this order, never sorted by interest.

Joined by us, on a stated key · 1

Two documents joined on a key, and the key is named on every row.

Nothing on file

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. No lobbying registration names this bill in the graph: the L-2 bill lines are not loaded, which is not the same as no lobbying having occurred.

Checked 2026-09-09

Source one query on the edge table, grouped by tier · as of 2026-09-09 · edges 0 filed, 1 composite, 0 adjacency · how edges are built

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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 ESB 6617?
ESB 6617 did not become law. It stopped in Senate Ways & Means. The 2015-16 session ended without it passing both chambers, so it is not law.
Who sponsored ESB 6617?
The prime sponsor of record is Frockt, 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 ESB 6617 do?
In the Legislature’s own description: “Concerning the University of Washington's alternative process for awarding contracts.” We quote the official language rather than summarising, because a paraphrase of legislation is an interpretation.
Was there a recorded vote on ESB 6617?
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 ESB 6617 get a public hearing?
Yes — 2 public hearings are on record. A public hearing is where testimony is taken; it is not the committee vote, which happens in an executive session.

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“ESB 6617 — UW altern. contract-awarding,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-09-09, accessed 2026-09-16. https://washingtonindependents.org/bill/2015-16-sb-6617/

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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.