SHB 1453 — Voters’ pamphlets
SHB 1453 was introduced in the 2021-22 Washington legislative session by Bergquist. It received 3 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.
- 2021-22 session
- House
- Did not become law
- 3 public hearings
- Sponsor: Bergquist
Source Washington State Legislature web services: legislation, hearings and roll calls · as of 2026-08-12 · introduced 2021-02-11
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Where it stopped
Died
- Last committee
- Senate State Government & Elections — 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 2026-08-12
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What it would do
The Legislature’s own description. We do not paraphrase legislation.
No description on file. The legislation service returns no long title for this bill. That is a gap in the record we read, not a bill without content.
Last checked 2026-08-12
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 · 2021-03-03
3rd Reading & Final Passage
90
yea
7
nay
1
absent or excused
HOUSE · 2022-01-26
Final Passage
70
yea
27
nay
1
absent or excused
Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-12 · 2 recorded votes
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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
Bergquist
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.
| Date | Type | Committee | Chamber |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-02-08 | Public | House State Government & Tribal Relations | House |
| 2021-02-11 | Executive | House State Government & Tribal Relations | House |
| 2021-03-17 | Public | Senate State Government & Elections | Senate |
| 2021-03-24 | Executive | Senate State Government & Elections | Senate |
| 2022-02-09 | Public | Senate State Government & Elections | Senate |
| 2022-02-23 | Executive | Senate State Government & Elections | Senate |
Source WA Legislature committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-12 · 3 public, 3 executive
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What changed between versions
| Version | Substitute | Engrossed | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| EHB 1453 | — | 1 | By resolution, returned to House Rules Committee for third reading. |
| SHB 1453 | 1 | — | — |
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.
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DIED IN · biennium 2021-22
Senate State Government & Elections
joined on: cutoff calendar + last journal action
HB 1453 status history, 2021-22 — bill summary, WA State Legislature · as of 0001-01-01
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 SHB 1453?
- SHB 1453 did not become law. It stopped in Senate State Government & Elections. The 2021-22 session ended without it passing both chambers, so it is not law.
- Who sponsored SHB 1453?
- The prime sponsor of record is Bergquist, 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.
- Was there a recorded vote on SHB 1453?
- Yes. 2 recorded floor votes appear on this page, member counts and all. Committee votes are held separately as scanned sign-off sheets and are not counted here.
- Did SHB 1453 get a public hearing?
- Yes — 3 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.
Cite this page
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“SHB 1453 — Voters’ pamphlets,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-12, accessed 2026-09-03. https://washingtonindependents.org/bill/2021-22-hb-1453/
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How this page is built
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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.