ESSB 5048 — Operating budget

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Where it stopped

Died

Last recorded action

Senate Rules "X" file.

Position

S Rules X — the Legislature's own location code

Last committee

Senate Ways & Means — the last committee with this bill on an agenda

Public hearing

Yes — 1 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 2026-08-07

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What it would do

The Legislature’s own description. We do not paraphrase legislation.

Making operating appropriations for the 2015-2017 and 2017-2019 fiscal biennia.

Legal title AN ACT Relating to fiscal matters;

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.

Source WA Legislature committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-07 · 1 public, 1 executive

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The votes

Recorded floor votes. Committee votes are in the hearing record above.

Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-07 · 20 recorded votes

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Versions

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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 None of them follow from the records we hold, so we do not publish them.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Withdrawn, superseded by its own companion, folded into a budget, or simply never taken up — all four look identical in the data.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

• SPONSORED BY

  WM(Braun

  WA Legislature, bill sponsorship record

• HEARD BY

  Senate Ways & Means

  WA Legislature, committee agenda

Same detail on two records — not a relationship

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

Cite this page

This is public-records reporting. Use it, and say where it came from.

“ESSB 5048 — Operating budget,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-09. https://washingtonindependents.org/bill/2017-18-sb-5048/

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Where this page comes from

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.