Bill · Washington State Legislature · 2017-18

ESSB 5397 — Petition disclosure

ESSB 5397 was introduced in the 2017-18 Washington legislative session by SGTEWarnick. It received 3 public hearings and did not become law.

2017-18 session
Senate
Did not become law
3 public hearings
Sponsor: SGTE(Warnick

Source Washington State Legislature web services: legislation, hearings and roll calls · as of 2026-08-07 · introduced 2018-02-02

Where it stopped

Died

Last recorded action: By resolution, returned to Senate Rules Committee for third reading.
Position: S Rules 3 — the Legislature's own location code
Last committee: House State Government, Elections & Information Technology — the last committee with this bill on an agenda
Public hearing: Yes — 3 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

What it would do

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

Concerning disclosure in initiatives, referenda, and recall petitions.

Legal title AN ACT Relating to disclosure in initiatives, referenda, and recall petitions;

Source WA Legislature legislation service · as of 2026-08-07

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
2017-02-08	Public	Senate State Government	Senate
2018-01-31	Public	Senate State Government, Tribal Relations & Elections	Senate
2018-02-02	Executive	Senate State Government, Tribal Relations & Elections	Senate
2018-02-20	Public	House State Government, Elections & Information Technology	House
2018-02-23	Executive	House State Government, Elections & Information Technology	House

Source WA Legislature committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-07 · 3 public, 2 executive

The votes

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

SENATE · 2018-02-13

3rd Reading & Final Passage

yea

nay

absent or excused

Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-07 · 1 recorded vote

Versions

Versions of this bill
Version	Substitute	Engrossed	Status
SB 5397	—	—	1st substitute bill substituted.
ESSB 5397	1	1	By resolution, returned to Senate 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 2026-08-07

Source WA Legislature legislation service · as of 2026-08-07

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.

Connected records

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On the record

SPONSORED BY

SGTE(Warnick

WA Legislature, bill sponsorship record
HEARD BY

Senate State Government

WA Legislature, committee agenda
HEARD BY

Senate State Government, Tribal Relations & Elections

WA Legislature, committee agenda
HEARD BY

House State Government, Elections & Information Technology

WA Legislature, committee agenda

Same detail on two records — not a relationship

SHARES A SPONSOR

Other bills SGTE(Warnick sponsored in the same session.

SSB 6377

A sponsor in common is not a relationship between two bills. Legislators sponsor dozens of unrelated bills a session, and this list cannot be used as a step toward a claim about either one.

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

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“ESSB 5397 — Petition disclosure,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-09. https://washingtonindependents.org/bill/2017-18-sb-5397/

Where this page comes from

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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.
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