Bill · Washington State Legislature · 2015-16

SB 5394 — Child abduction statutes

SB 5394 was introduced in the 2015-16 Washington legislative session by Rivers. It received 1 public hearing and did not become law.

2015-16 session
Senate
Did not become law
1 public hearing
Sponsor: Rivers

Source Washington State Legislature web services: legislation, hearings and roll calls · as of 2026-08-07 · introduced 2015-01-21

Where it stopped

Died

Last recorded action: By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
Position: S Rules X — the Legislature's own location code
Last committee: Senate Law and Justice — the last committee with this bill on an agenda
Public hearing: Yes — 1 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 2026-08-07

What it would do

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

Clarifying the applicability of child abduction statutes to residential provisions ordered by a court.

Legal title AN ACT Relating to clarifying the applicability of child abduction statutes to residential provisions ordered by a court;

Source WA Legislature legislation service · as of 2026-08-07

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 record
Date	Type	Committee	Chamber
2015-01-27	Public	Senate Law and Justice	Senate
2015-02-18	Executive	Senate Law and Justice	Senate

Source WA Legislature committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-07 · 1 public, 1 executive

The votes

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

SENATE · 2015-03-04

3rd Reading & Final Passage

yea

nay

absent or excused

Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-07 · 1 recorded vote

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 2026-08-07

What this page will not compute

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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Why it died: Withdrawn, superseded by its own companion, folded into a budget, or simply never taken up — all four look identical in the data.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.

Connected records

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On the record

SPONSORED BY

Rivers

WA Legislature, bill sponsorship record
HEARD BY

Senate Law and Justice

WA Legislature, committee agenda

Same detail on two records — not a relationship

SHARES A SPONSOR

Other bills Rivers sponsored in the same session.

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Nothing on file

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Source WA Legislature legislation and committee services · as of 2026-08-07

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“SB 5394 — Child abduction statutes,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-09. https://washingtonindependents.org/bill/2015-16-sb-5394/

Where this page comes from

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