SSB 6062 — Operating budget
SSB 6062 was introduced in the 1997-98 Washington legislative session by WMWest. It became law.
- 1997-98 session
- Senate
- Became law
- No public hearing
- Sponsor: WM(West
Source Washington State Legislature web services: legislation, hearings and roll calls · as of 2026-08-12 · introduced 1997-03-26
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Where it stopped
Became law
- Last recorded action
- Effective date 7/1/1997.
- Session law
- C 149 L 97 — 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.
Making appropriations for the fiscal biennium ending June 30, 1999.
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.
SENATE · 1997-03-26
Final Passage
25
yea
23
nay
1
absent or excused
SENATE · 1997-03-26
AMENDMENT BY SENATORS FRASER AND KOHL ON PAGE 7, LINES 4,9 – FAILED.
22
yea
26
nay
1
absent or excused
SENATE · 1997-03-26
AMENDMENT BY SENATOR FRASER ON PAGE 10, LINES 24,25; PAGE 12, LINE 38; PAGE 52, LINES 17,18; PAGE 55, LINE 13; PAGE 44, LINES 9,10; PAGE 58, LINES 5,6; PAGE 61, LINE 8 – FAILED.
22
yea
26
nay
1
absent or excused
SENATE · 1997-03-26
AMENDMENT BY SENATORS BROWN AND THIBAUDEAU ON PAGE 23, LINES 32,33,34; PAGE 26, LINE 4 – FAILED.
22
yea
26
nay
1
absent or excused
SENATE · 1997-03-26
AMENDMENT BY SENATOR FRANKLIN ON PAGE 39, LINES 19,20,27; PAGE 40, LINE 10 – FAILED.
21
yea
26
nay
2
absent or excused
SENATE · 1997-03-26
AMENDMENT BY SENATOR BAUER ON PAGE 52, LINES 4,5; PAGE 50, LINES 6,8,7 – FAILED.
21
yea
26
nay
2
absent or excused
SENATE · 1997-03-26
AMENDMENT BY SENATOR FRANKLIN AND OTHERS ON PAGE 68, LINES 5,6,13; PAGE 71, LINE 13 – FAILED.
43
yea
51
nay
4
absent or excused
SENATE · 1997-03-26
AMENDMENT BY SENATOR MCAULIFFE AND OTHERS ON PAGE 68, LINES 7,13; PAGE 69, LINE 13; PAGE 90, LINE 14; PAGE 91, LINE 16; PAGE 93, LINES 20,21,22,24 – FAILED.
21
yea
26
nay
2
absent or excused
SENATE · 1997-03-26
AMENDMENT BY SENATOR SPANEL ON PAGE 81, LINE 11; PAGE 98, LINE 14; PAGE 117, LINE 1 AND PAGE 119, LINE 3 – FAILED.
22
yea
25
nay
2
absent or excused
SENATE · 1997-03-26
AMENDMENT BY SENATORS HARGROVE AND MCAULIFFE ON PAGE 88, LINES 33,34 – FAILED.
22
yea
25
nay
2
absent or excused
SENATE · 1997-03-26
AMENDMENT BY SENATOR SNYDER ON PAGE 99, LINES 21,22,25; PAGE 100, LINE 12 – FAILED.
20
yea
27
nay
2
absent or excused
SENATE · 1997-03-26
AMENDMENT BY SENATOR SPANEL ON PAGE 108, LINES 24,25,27; PAGE 109, LINES 12,13 – FAILED.
21
yea
26
nay
2
absent or excused
HOUSE · 1997-03-31
AMD 423 DICKERSON
42
yea
55
nay
1
absent or excused
HOUSE · 1997-03-31
AMD 415 COSTA
41
yea
56
nay
1
absent or excused
HOUSE · 1997-03-31
AMD 413 TOKUDA
43
yea
54
nay
1
absent or excused
HOUSE · 1997-03-31
AMD 414 CODY
42
yea
56
nay
HOUSE · 1997-03-31
AMD 450 ROMERO
42
yea
56
nay
HOUSE · 1997-03-31
AMD 442 LINVILLE
42
yea
56
nay
HOUSE · 1997-03-31
AMD 430 KESSLER
46
yea
52
nay
HOUSE · 1997-03-31
AMD 424 POULSEN
44
yea
54
nay
HOUSE · 1997-03-31
AMD 420 SOMMERS, H.
44
yea
54
nay
HOUSE · 1997-03-31
AMD 422 SOMMERS, H.
45
yea
53
nay
HOUSE · 1997-03-31
AMD 446 DUNN
89
yea
9
nay
HOUSE · 1997-03-31
Final Passage
53
yea
45
nay
HOUSE · 1997-04-17
Final Passage
53
yea
44
nay
1
absent or excused
SENATE · 1997-04-17
Final Passage
46
yea
50
nay
2
absent or excused
SENATE · 1997-04-19
Final Passage
26
yea
0
nay
23
absent or excused
Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-12 · 27 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(West
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 1997-98 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 6062 | — | — | 1st substitute bill substituted. |
| SSB 6062 | 1 | — | Effective date 7/1/1997. |
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 SSB 6062?
- SSB 6062 became law. The Legislature’s status record places it at “C 149 L 97” — its chapter and year in the session laws.
- Who sponsored SSB 6062?
- The prime sponsor of record is WM(West, 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 SSB 6062 do?
- In the Legislature’s own description: “Making appropriations for the fiscal biennium ending June 30, 1999.” We quote the official language rather than summarising, because a paraphrase of legislation is an interpretation.
- Was there a recorded vote on SSB 6062?
- Yes. 27 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 SSB 6062 get a public hearing?
- Committee hearing records for the 1997-98 session are not available to us, so whether SSB 6062 was publicly heard cannot be established either way.
Cite this page
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“SSB 6062 — Operating budget,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-12, accessed 2026-09-12. https://washingtonindependents.org/bill/1997-98-sb-6062/
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How this page is built
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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.