2ESSB 5954 — Reducing tuition – Washington Independents

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Where it stopped

Became law

Last recorded action: Chapter 36, 2015 Laws 3rd Special Session.
Session law: C 36 L 15 E3 — chapter and year in the session laws
Last committee: House Higher Education — the last committee with this bill on an agenda
Public hearing: Yes — 3 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

02

What it would do

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

Reducing tuition.

Legal title AN ACT Relating to reducing tuition;

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

03

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
2015-02-17	Public	Senate Higher Education	Senate
2015-02-19	Executive	Senate Higher Education	Senate
2015-02-23	Public	Senate Ways & Means	Senate
2015-02-26	Executive	Senate Ways & Means	Senate
2015-03-26	Public	House Higher Education	House

Source WA Legislature committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-07 · 3 public, 2 executive

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The votes

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

SENATE · 2015-03-11

3rd Reading & Final Passage

37

yea

12

nay

SENATE · 2015-04-29

3rd Reading & Final Passage

34

yea

10

nay

5

absent or excused

SENATE · 2015-06-29

3rd Reading & Final Passage

48

yea

0

nay

1

absent or excused

HOUSE · 2015-06-30

Final Passage

98

yea

0

nay

Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-07 · 4 recorded votes

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Versions

Versions of this bill
Version	Substitute	Engrossed	Status
SB 5954	—	—	1st substitute bill substituted.
2ESSB 5954	1	2	Chapter 36, 2015 Laws 3rd Special Session.

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 2026-08-07

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

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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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Connected records

Every link this page draws, grouped by how well a document supports it.

On the record

SPONSORED BY

WM(Braun

WA Legislature, bill sponsorship record
HEARD BY

Senate Higher Education

WA Legislature, committee agenda
HEARD BY

Senate Ways & Means

WA Legislature, committee agenda
HEARD BY

House Higher Education

WA Legislature, committee agenda

Same detail on two records — not a relationship

SHARES A SPONSOR

Other bills WM(Braun sponsored in the same session.

A sponsor in common is not a relationship between two bills. Legislators sponsor dozens of unrelated bills a session, and this list cannot be used as a step toward a claim about either one.

Nothing on file

No lobbying edge is published. Washington collects lobbyist filings but none of them name a bill, so there is no documented link to draw. No funding edge either: we do not join campaign money to legislation, because doing so would require inferring intent from two unrelated records.

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

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“2ESSB 5954 — Reducing tuition,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-09. https://washingtonindependents.org/bill/2015-16-sb-5954/

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Where this page comes from

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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.