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E4SHB 1827 — Educator workforce supply

E4SHB 1827 was introduced in the 2017-18 Washington legislative session by Santos. It received 6 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.

  • 2017-18 session
  • House
  • Did not become law
  • 6 public hearings
  • Sponsor: Santos

Source Washington State Legislature web services: legislation, hearings and roll calls · as of 2026-08-12 · introduced 2018-02-06

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Where it stopped

Died

Last recorded action
By resolution, returned to House Rules Committee for third reading.
Position
H Rules 3C — the Legislature's own location code
Last committee
Senate Ways & Means — the last committee with this bill on an agenda
Public hearing
Yes — 6 on record — 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.

Expanding the current and future educator workforce supply through evidence-based strategies to improve and incentivize the recruitment and retention of highly effective educators, especially in high-need subject, grade-level, and geographic areas, and to establish a cohesive continuum of high quality professional learning from preparation programs to job embedded induction, mentoring, collaboration, and other professional development opportunities.

Legal title AN ACT Relating to expanding the current and future educator workforce supply through evidence-based strategies to improve and incentivize the recruitment and retention of highly effective educators, especially in high-need subject, grade-level, and geographic areas, and to establish a cohesive continuum of high quality professional learning from preparation programs to job embedded induction, mentoring, collaboration, and other professional development opportunities;

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 · 2018-02-09

Final Passage

97

yea

1

nay

Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-12 · 1 recorded vote

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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

Santos

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 record
Date Type Committee Chamber
2017-02-07 Public House Education House
2017-02-16 Executive House Education House
2017-06-19 Public House Education House
2017-06-19 Executive House Education House
2018-01-09 Public House Education House
2018-01-11 Executive House Education House
2018-01-31 Public House Appropriations House
2018-02-06 Executive House Appropriations House
2018-02-20 Public Senate Early Learning & K-12 Education Senate
2018-02-23 Executive Senate Early Learning & K-12 Education Senate
2018-02-24 Public Senate Ways & Means Senate
2018-02-26 Executive Senate Ways & Means Senate

Source WA Legislature committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-12 · 6 public, 6 executive

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What changed between versions

Versions of this bill
Version Substitute Engrossed Status
HB 1827 — — 4th substitute bill substituted.
SHB 1827 1 — 4th substitute bill substituted.
2SHB 1827 2 — 4th substitute bill substituted.
3SHB 1827 3 — 4th substitute bill substituted.
E4SHB 1827 4 1 By resolution, returned to House Rules Committee for third reading.

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 1827?
E4SHB 1827 did not become law. It stopped in Senate Ways & Means. The 2017-18 session ended without it passing both chambers, so it is not law.
Who sponsored E4SHB 1827?
The prime sponsor of record is Santos, 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 1827 do?
In the Legislature’s own description: “Expanding the current and future educator workforce supply through evidence-based strategies to improve and incentivize the recruitment and retention of highly effective educators, especially in high-need subject, grade-level, and geographic areas, and to establish a cohesive continuum of high quality professional learning from preparation programs to job embedded induction, mentoring, collaboration, and other professional development opportunities.” We quote the official language rather than summarising, because a paraphrase of legislation is an interpretation.
Was there a recorded vote on E4SHB 1827?
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 E4SHB 1827 get a public hearing?
Yes — 6 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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“E4SHB 1827 — Educator workforce supply,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-12, accessed 2026-09-15. https://washingtonindependents.org/bill/2017-18-hb-1827/

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How this page is built

Every figure above is read from a primary source and rebuilt on a schedule. Nothing here is modelled or inferred; where a source is silent the page says so rather than filling the gap.

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.