SB 6655 — Wage sex discrimination
SB 6655 was introduced in the 2015-16 Washington legislative session by Fain. 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.
- 2015-16 session
- Senate
- Did not become law
- No public hearing
- Sponsor: Fain
Source Washington State Legislature web services: legislation, hearings and roll calls · as of 2026-09-09 · introduced 2016-02-09
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Where it stopped
Died
- Last recorded action
- By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
- Position
- S Commerce and L — the Legislature's own location code
- Public hearing
- None on record — a public hearing is where testimony is taken; an executive session is where a committee votes
This bill was never given a public hearing. It was introduced, referred to committee, and the session ended without testimony ever being taken on it. That is the ordinary fate of 44% of the bills that die in Washington — it is not evidence that anyone blocked it, and we do not know who decided.
Last checked 2026-09-09
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What it would do
The Legislature’s own description. We do not paraphrase legislation.
Ensuring equal pay for equal work by amending and enhancing enforcement of equal pay and protecting worker communications about wages.
Legal title AN ACT Relating to ensuring equal pay for equal work by amending and enhancing enforcement of equal pay and protecting worker communications about wages;
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.
No recorded floor vote. The bill never reached the floor of either chamber, so no member is on record for or against it.
Last checked 2026-09-09
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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
Fain
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.
This bill never appeared on a committee agenda. It was introduced and referred, and no committee ever scheduled it. Roughly half the bills that die in Washington die this way.
Last checked 2026-09-09
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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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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 SB 6655?
- SB 6655 did not become law. The 2015-16 session ended without it passing both chambers, so it is not law.
- Who sponsored SB 6655?
- The prime sponsor of record is Fain, 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 SB 6655 do?
- In the Legislature’s own description: “Ensuring equal pay for equal work by amending and enhancing enforcement of equal pay and protecting worker communications about wages.” We quote the official language rather than summarising, because a paraphrase of legislation is an interpretation.
- Was there a recorded vote on SB 6655?
- SB 6655 never reached a recorded floor vote in either chamber, so no member is on record for or against it.
- Did SB 6655 get a public hearing?
- No public hearing is on record for SB 6655. Testimony was never taken on it, which is the ordinary fate of most bills that do not advance — not evidence that anyone blocked it.
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“SB 6655 — Wage sex discrimination,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-09-09, accessed 2026-09-16. https://washingtonindependents.org/bill/2015-16-sb-6655/
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