What happened to 2ESB 5226?

2ESB 5226 did not become law. The 1991-92 session ended without it passing both chambers, so it is not law.

Who sponsored 2ESB 5226?

The prime sponsor of record is Thorsness, 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 2ESB 5226 do?

In the Legislature's own description: “Limiting terms of state offices to twelve years.” We quote the official language rather than summarising, because a paraphrase of legislation is an interpretation.

Was there a recorded vote on 2ESB 5226?

Yes. 3 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 2ESB 5226 get a public hearing?

Committee hearing records for the 1991-92 session are not available to us, so whether 2ESB 5226 was publicly heard cannot be established either way.

2ESB 5226 — Term limitation/state offics

2ESB 5226 was introduced in the 1991-92 Washington legislative session by Thorsness. It never received a public hearing 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.

1991-92 session
Senate
Did not become law
No public hearing
Sponsor: Thorsness

Source Washington State Legislature web services: legislation, hearings and roll calls · as of 2026-08-12 · introduced 1991-01-24

Where it stopped

Died

Last recorded action: Third reading, failed; yeas, 21; nays 28, absent, 0.
Position: S Failed 3rd — the Legislature's own location code
Public hearing: Not established — no hearing records for this session — 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

What it would do

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

Limiting terms of state offices to twelve years.

Source WA Legislature legislation service · as of 2026-08-12

The votes

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

SENATE · 1991-03-18

AMENDMENTS BY SENATOR TALMADGE ON PAGE 2, LINES 6, 7, 20 AND 21.

yea

nay

absent or excused

SENATE · 1991-03-20

AMENDMENT BY SENATOR TALMADGE ON PAGE 1, LINES 17 AND 31 OF THE STRIKING AMENDMENT BY SENATOR METCALF.

yea

nay

SENATE · 1991-03-20

Final Passage

yea

nay

Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-12 · 3 recorded votes

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 records for the 1991-92 session are not available. The Legislature publishes committee hearing records from the 2003-04 session onward; for earlier sessions there is nothing to read. Whether this bill received a public hearing cannot be established either way, so we say nothing about it.

Last checked 2026-08-12

What changed between versions

Only one version on file. The bill was never substituted or engrossed, or the legislation service returns only the surviving version for this session — for completed biennia it usually returns the latter.

Last checked 2026-08-12

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.

Common questions

What happened to 2ESB 5226?: 2ESB 5226 did not become law. The 1991-92 session ended without it passing both chambers, so it is not law.
Who sponsored 2ESB 5226?: The prime sponsor of record is Thorsness, 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 2ESB 5226 do?: In the Legislature’s own description: “Limiting terms of state offices to twelve years.” We quote the official language rather than summarising, because a paraphrase of legislation is an interpretation.
Was there a recorded vote on 2ESB 5226?: Yes. 3 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 2ESB 5226 get a public hearing?: Committee hearing records for the 1991-92 session are not available to us, so whether 2ESB 5226 was publicly heard cannot be established either way.

Cite this page

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“2ESB 5226 — Term limitation/state offics,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-12, accessed 2026-08-25. https://washingtonindependents.org/bill/1991-92-sb-5226/

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.