E2SSB 5304 — Health care cost and access
E2SSB 5304 was introduced in the 1993-94 Washington legislative session by WMTalmadge. It became law.
- 1993-94 session
- Senate
- Became law
- No public hearing
- Sponsor: WM(Talmadge
Source Washington State Legislature web services: legislation, hearings and roll calls · as of 2026-08-12 · introduced 1993-03-08
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Where it stopped
Became law
- Last recorded action
- Chapter 492, 1993 Laws PV
- Session law
- C 492 L 93 — chapter and year in the session laws
- 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
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What it would do
The Legislature’s own description. We do not paraphrase legislation.
Reforming health care cost control and access.
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 · 1993-04-08
Final Passage
56
yea
42
nay
SENATE · 1993-03-12
AMENDMENT BY SENATOR TALMADGE ON PAGE 13, AFTER LINE 7, AND PAGE 13, AFTER LINE 31 – ADOPTED.
25
yea
22
nay
2
absent or excused
SENATE · 1993-03-12
AMENDMENT BY SENATOR MCDONALD ON PAGE 26, AFTER LINE 22 – FAILED.
23
yea
24
nay
2
absent or excused
SENATE · 1993-03-12
AMENDMENTS BY SENATORS ANDERSON, ERWIN, AND MCDONALD ON PAGE 66, AFTER LINE 23, AND PAGE 68, LINE 2 – FAILED.
17
yea
30
nay
2
absent or excused
SENATE · 1993-03-12
AMENDMENTS BY SENATORS SUTHERLAND, BAUER, AND VOGNILD ON PAGE 66, LINE 24; PAGE 68, LINES 2, 33, 35; PAGE 69, LINES 22, 29, 31; PAGE 70, LINES 15, 22, 25; PAGE 137, LINES 5, 7 – ADOPTED.
29
yea
18
nay
2
absent or excused
SENATE · 1993-03-12
AMENDMENTS BY SENATOR MCDONALD ON PAGE 74, BEGINNING ON LINE 30, AND PAGE 75, AFTER LINE 2 – FAILED.
20
yea
27
nay
2
absent or excused
SENATE · 1993-03-12
AMENDMENTS BY SENATOR HARGROVE AND OWEN ON PAGE 82, LINE 6; PAGE 84, LINE 30, AND PAGE 111, LINE 10 – FAILED.
21
yea
26
nay
2
absent or excused
SENATE · 1993-03-12
AMENDMENT BY SENATOR MCDONALD ON PAGE 92, AFTER LINE 34 – FAILED.
22
yea
25
nay
2
absent or excused
SENATE · 1993-03-12
AMENDMENTS BY SENATORS ERWIN AND ROACH ON PAGE 93, BEGINNING ON LINE 13, AND PAGE 94, AFTER LINE 8 – FAILED.
17
yea
30
nay
2
absent or excused
SENATE · 1993-03-12
AMENDMENTS BY SENATOR MCDONALD ON PAGE 118, LINES 30, 33, AND PAGE 119, LINE 2 – FAILED.
18
yea
28
nay
3
absent or excused
SENATE · 1993-03-12
Final Passage
30
yea
16
nay
3
absent or excused
HOUSE · 1993-04-08
AMD 367 MIELKE
34
yea
63
nay
1
absent or excused
HOUSE · 1993-04-08
AMD 368 MIELKE
36
yea
61
nay
1
absent or excused
HOUSE · 1993-04-08
AMD 360 SCHOESLER
36
yea
61
nay
1
absent or excused
HOUSE · 1993-04-08
AMD 352 RAYBURN
46
yea
49
nay
3
absent or excused
HOUSE · 1993-04-08
AMD 355 MORRIS
10
yea
87
nay
1
absent or excused
HOUSE · 1993-04-08
AMD 396 PADDEN
34
yea
63
nay
1
absent or excused
HOUSE · 1993-04-08
AMD 383 SHELDON
47
yea
50
nay
1
absent or excused
HOUSE · 1993-04-08
AMD TO AMD
160
yea
230
nay
2
absent or excused
HOUSE · 1993-04-21
Final Passage
56
yea
42
nay
SENATE · 1993-04-23
Final Passage
28
yea
21
nay
Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-12 · 21 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
WM(Talmadge
as printed the sponsor line on the bill status record · introduced in the Senate. 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.
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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.
Committee hearing records for the 1993-94 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
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What changed between versions
| Version | Substitute | Engrossed | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| SB 5304 | — | — | 2nd substitute bill substituted. |
| SSB 5304 | 1 | — | 2nd substitute bill substituted. |
| E2SSB 5304 | 2 | 1 | Chapter 492, 1993 Laws PV |
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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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 E2SSB 5304?
- E2SSB 5304 became law. The Legislature’s status record places it at “C 492 L 93” — its chapter and year in the session laws.
- Who sponsored E2SSB 5304?
- The prime sponsor of record is WM(Talmadge, 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 E2SSB 5304 do?
- In the Legislature’s own description: “Reforming health care cost control and access.” We quote the official language rather than summarising, because a paraphrase of legislation is an interpretation.
- Was there a recorded vote on E2SSB 5304?
- Yes. 21 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 E2SSB 5304 get a public hearing?
- Committee hearing records for the 1993-94 session are not available to us, so whether E2SSB 5304 was publicly heard cannot be established either way.
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“E2SSB 5304 — Health care cost and access,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-12, accessed 2026-08-28. https://washingtonindependents.org/bill/1993-94-sb-5304/
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- WA Legislature committee hearing records
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- WA Legislature roll call service
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- Outcome
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