ESSB 6108 — Supplmntl operating budget
ESSB 6108 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 1998-02-25
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Where it stopped
Became law
- Last recorded action
- Effective date 4/3/1998.
- Session law
- C 346 L 98 — 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 supplemental operating appropriations.
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 · 1998-03-11
MOTION BY SENATOR JOHNSON TO ADJOURN – CARRIED.
26
yea
23
nay
SENATE · 1998-02-25
AMENDMENT NUMBER 798 BY SENATOR HARGROVE, ON PAGE 30, LINES 18, 20, ON PAGE 34, AFTER LINE 21, ON PAGE 44, LINES 9, 11, ON PAGE 46, LINE 11, ON PAGE 48, LINES 8, 10, ON PAGE 52, AFTER LINE 31 – FAILED.
23
yea
26
nay
SENATE · 1998-02-25
AMENDMENT NUMBER 791 BY SENATORS THIBAUDEAU AND WOJAHN, ON PAGE 56, LINES 10, 12, ON PAGE 56, LINE 12, ON PAGE 58, LINE 2 – FAILED.
23
yea
26
nay
SENATE · 1998-02-25
AMENDMENT NUMBER 792 BY SENATOR BAUER, ON PAGE 81, LINES 7, 9, 22 – FAILED.
23
yea
26
nay
SENATE · 1998-02-25
AMENDMENT NUMBER 794 BY SENATOR BAUER, ON PAGE 127 LINE 7 – FAILED.
23
yea
26
nay
SENATE · 1998-02-25
AMENDMENT NUMBER 795 BY SENATOR MCAULIFFE, ON PAGE 134, LINE 23 – FAILED.
23
yea
26
nay
SENATE · 1998-02-25
AMENDMENT NUMBER 797 BY SENATOR FRANKLIN AND OTHERS, ON PAGE 134, AFTER LINE 23 – FAILED.
23
yea
26
nay
SENATE · 1998-02-25
AMENDMENT NUMBER 796 BY SENATORS LOVELAND AND HARGROVE, ON PAGE 160, AFTER LINE 35 – FAILED.
23
yea
26
nay
SENATE · 1998-02-25
AMENDMENT NUMBER 800 BY SENATORS FRASER AND SPANEL, ON PAGE 161, LINES 11, 16, 17 – FAILED.
23
yea
26
nay
SENATE · 1998-02-25
Final Passage
29
yea
20
nay
HOUSE · 1998-03-04
1103 Gombosky Pg 16 Ln 17
42
yea
55
nay
1
absent or excused
HOUSE · 1998-03-04
1096 Constantine Pg 46 Ln 17
45
yea
52
nay
1
absent or excused
HOUSE · 1998-03-04
1090 Cody Pg 63 Ln 21
45
yea
52
nay
1
absent or excused
HOUSE · 1998-03-04
1102 Conway Pg 76 Ln 2
85
yea
109
nay
2
absent or excused
HOUSE · 1998-03-04
1100 Linville Pg 97 Ln 1
42
yea
55
nay
1
absent or excused
HOUSE · 1998-03-04
1093 Doumit Pg 102 Ln 10
43
yea
54
nay
1
absent or excused
HOUSE · 1998-03-04
1091 Keiser Pg 128 Ln 13
43
yea
54
nay
1
absent or excused
HOUSE · 1998-03-04
1092 Sommers, H. Pg 153 Ln 30
41
yea
56
nay
1
absent or excused
HOUSE · 1998-03-04
1097 Sterk Pg 190 Ln 8
47
yea
50
nay
1
absent or excused
HOUSE · 1998-03-04
Final Passage
54
yea
43
nay
1
absent or excused
HOUSE · 1998-03-11
Final Passage
57
yea
41
nay
SENATE · 1998-03-11
MOTION BY SENATOR MCCASLIN TO DEMAND THE PREVIOUS QUESTION – SUSTAINED.
26
yea
23
nay
SENATE · 1998-03-11
Final Passage
26
yea
23
nay
SENATE · 1998-03-11
MOTION BY SENATOR WEST TO ADOPT THE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT – CARRIED.
26
yea
23
nay
Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-12 · 24 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.
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.
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 6108 | — | — | 1st substitute bill substituted. |
| ESSB 6108 | 1 | 1 | Effective date 4/3/1998. |
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 ESSB 6108?
- ESSB 6108 became law. The Legislature’s status record places it at “C 346 L 98” — its chapter and year in the session laws.
- Who sponsored ESSB 6108?
- 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 ESSB 6108 do?
- In the Legislature’s own description: “Making supplemental operating appropriations.” We quote the official language rather than summarising, because a paraphrase of legislation is an interpretation.
- Was there a recorded vote on ESSB 6108?
- Yes. 24 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 ESSB 6108 get a public hearing?
- Committee hearing records for the 1997-98 session are not available to us, so whether ESSB 6108 was publicly heard cannot be established either way.
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“ESSB 6108 — Supplmntl operating budget,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-12, accessed 2026-09-12. https://washingtonindependents.org/bill/1997-98-sb-6108/
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How this page is built
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- WA Legislature legislation service
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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.