EHB 1989 — Water storage asset mgmt
EHB 1989 was introduced in the 2015-16 Washington legislative session by Dent. It became law.
- 2015-16 session
- House
- Became law
- 2 public hearings
- Sponsor: Dent
Source Washington State Legislature web services: legislation, hearings and roll calls · as of 2026-08-12 · introduced 2015-02-05
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Where it stopped
Became law
- Last recorded action
- Effective date 7/24/2015.
- Session law
- C 187 L 15 — chapter and year in the session laws
- Last committee
- Senate Agriculture, Water & Rural Economic Development — 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 2026-08-12
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What it would do
The Legislature’s own description. We do not paraphrase legislation.
Concerning water storage asset management services.
Legal title AN ACT Relating to water storage asset management services;
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 · 2015-03-03
Final Passage
97
yea
0
nay
1
absent or excused
SENATE · 2015-03-25
3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate
48
yea
0
nay
1
absent or excused
HOUSE · 2015-04-16
Final Passage as Amended by the Senate
96
yea
0
nay
2
absent or excused
Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-12 · 3 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
Dent
as printed the sponsor line on the bill status record · introduced in the House. 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.
| Date | Type | Committee | Chamber |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-02-12 | Public | House Local Government | House |
| 2015-02-18 | Executive | House Local Government | House |
| 2015-03-12 | Public | Senate Agriculture, Water & Rural Economic Development | Senate |
| 2015-03-17 | Executive | Senate Agriculture, Water & Rural Economic Development | Senate |
Source WA Legislature committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-12 · 2 public, 2 executive
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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
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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 EHB 1989?
- EHB 1989 became law. The Legislature’s status record places it at “C 187 L 15” — its chapter and year in the session laws.
- Who sponsored EHB 1989?
- The prime sponsor of record is Dent, 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 EHB 1989 do?
- In the Legislature’s own description: “Concerning water storage asset management services.” We quote the official language rather than summarising, because a paraphrase of legislation is an interpretation.
- Was there a recorded vote on EHB 1989?
- 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 EHB 1989 get a public hearing?
- Yes — 2 public hearings are on record. A public hearing is where testimony is taken; it is not the committee vote, which happens in an executive session.
Cite this page
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“EHB 1989 — Water storage asset mgmt,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-12, accessed 2026-08-30. https://washingtonindependents.org/bill/2015-16-hb-1989/
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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.