E2SHB 2158 — Workforce education – Washington Independents

01

Where it stopped

Became law

Last recorded action: Effective date 7/28/2019**.
Session law: C 406 L 19 — chapter and year in the session laws
Last committee: Senate Ways & Means — 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.

Creating a workforce education investment to train Washington students for Washington jobs.

Legal title AN ACT Relating to creating a workforce education investment to train Washington students for Washington jobs;

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
2019-03-29	Public	House Finance	House
2019-04-19	Executive	House Finance	House
2019-04-22	Public	House Appropriations	House
2019-04-25	Executive	House Appropriations	House
2019-04-27	Public	Senate Ways & Means	Senate
2019-04-27	Executive	Senate Ways & Means	Senate

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

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The votes

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

HOUSE · 2019-04-26

858 Van Werven Pg 5 Ln 4

40

yea

57

nay

1

absent or excused

HOUSE · 2019-04-26

851 Young Pg 15 Ln 3

40

yea

57

nay

1

absent or excused

HOUSE · 2019-04-26

853 Boehnke Pg 18 Ln 25

42

yea

55

nay

1

absent or excused

HOUSE · 2019-04-26

857 Kraft Pg 83 Ln 31

40

yea

57

nay

1

absent or excused

HOUSE · 2019-04-26

834 Stokesbary Pg 84 Ln 1

40

yea

57

nay

1

absent or excused

HOUSE · 2019-04-26

870 Dufault Pg 85 Ln 39

41

yea

56

nay

1

absent or excused

HOUSE · 2019-04-26

862 Chambers Pg 89 Ln 39

42

yea

55

nay

1

absent or excused

HOUSE · 2019-04-26

854 Schmick Pg 94 Ln 28

40

yea

57

nay

1

absent or excused

HOUSE · 2019-04-26

835 Young Pg 94 Ln 31

42

yea

55

nay

1

absent or excused

HOUSE · 2019-04-26

845 Walsh Pg 94 Ln 31

41

yea

56

nay

1

absent or excused

HOUSE · 2019-04-26

850 Young Pg 94 Ln 31

40

yea

57

nay

1

absent or excused

HOUSE · 2019-04-26

865 Stokesbary Pg 95 Ln 2

40

yea

57

nay

1

absent or excused

HOUSE · 2019-04-26

866 Stokesbary Striker

40

yea

57

nay

1

absent or excused

HOUSE · 2019-04-26

Final Passage

52

yea

45

nay

1

absent or excused

HOUSE · 2019-04-28

Final Passage as Amended by the Senate

52

yea

46

nay

SENATE · 2019-04-28

847 Rivers Pg 85 Ln 17

20

yea

27

nay

2

absent or excused

SENATE · 2019-04-28

842 Carlyle Pg 83 Ln 34

24

yea

24

nay

1

absent or excused

SENATE · 2019-04-28

861 Rivers Pg 88 Ln 19

20

yea

27

nay

2

absent or excused

SENATE · 2019-04-28

840 Becker Pg 89 Ln 39

22

yea

25

nay

2

absent or excused

SENATE · 2019-04-28

879 Rivers Pg 94 Ln 31

23

yea

24

nay

2

absent or excused

SENATE · 2019-04-28

3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate

25

yea

22

nay

2

absent or excused

Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-07 · 21 recorded votes

05

Versions

Versions of this bill
Version	Substitute	Engrossed	Status
HB 2158	—	—	2nd substitute bill substituted.
SHB 2158	1	—	2nd substitute bill substituted.
E2SHB 2158	2	1	Effective date 7/28/2019**.

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

Hansen

WA Legislature, bill sponsorship record
HEARD BY

House Finance

WA Legislature, committee agenda
HEARD BY

House Appropriations

WA Legislature, committee agenda
HEARD BY

Senate Ways & Means

WA Legislature, committee agenda

Same detail on two records — not a relationship

SHARES A SPONSOR

Other bills Hansen 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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“E2SHB 2158 — Workforce education,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-09. https://washingtonindependents.org/bill/2019-20-hb-2158/

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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.