Bill · Washington State Legislature · 2021-22

ESHB 1733 — Long-term care/exemptions

ESHB 1733 was introduced in the 2021-22 Washington legislative session by APPPaul. It became law.

2021-22 session
House
Became law
2 public hearings
Sponsor: APP(Paul

Source Washington State Legislature web services: legislation, hearings and roll calls · as of 2026-08-07 · introduced 2022-01-13

Where it stopped

Became law

Last recorded action: Effective date 6/9/2022.
Session law: C 2 L 22 — chapter and year in the session laws
Last committee: Senate Ways & Means — the last committee with this bill on an agenda
Public hearing: Yes — 2 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.

Establishing voluntary exemptions to the long-term services and supports trust program for certain populations.

Legal title AN ACT Relating to establishing voluntary exemptions to the long-term services and supports trust program for certain populations identified in the long-term services and supports trust commission's 2022 recommendations report, specifically including exemptions only for veterans with a service-connected disability of 70 percent or higher, the spouses or domestic partners of active duty service members, persons residing outside of Washington while working in Washington, and persons working in the United States under a temporary, nonimmigrant work visa;

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
2022-01-11	Public	House Appropriations	House
2022-01-13	Executive	House Appropriations	House
2022-01-24	Public	Senate Ways & Means	Senate
2022-01-25	Executive	Senate Ways & Means	Senate

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

The votes

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

HOUSE · 2022-01-19

3rd Reading & Final Passage

yea

nay

absent or excused

SENATE · 2022-01-26

972 Gildon Pg 3 Ln 11

yea

nay

SENATE · 2022-01-26

3rd Reading & Final Passage

yea

nay

Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-07 · 3 recorded votes

Versions

Versions of this bill
Version	Substitute	Engrossed	Status
HB 1733	—	—	1st substitute bill substituted.
ESHB 1733	1	1	Effective date 6/9/2022.

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

Every link this page draws, grouped by how well a document supports it.

On the record

SPONSORED BY

APP(Paul

WA Legislature, bill sponsorship record
HEARD BY

House Appropriations

WA Legislature, committee agenda
HEARD BY

Senate Ways & Means

WA Legislature, committee agenda

Same detail on two records — not a relationship

SHARES A SPONSOR

Other bills APP(Paul sponsored in the same session.

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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“ESHB 1733 — Long-term care/exemptions,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-09. https://washingtonindependents.org/bill/2021-22-hb-1733/

Where this page comes from

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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.