Bill · Washington State Legislature · 2021-22
SHB 2019 — Careers in retail
SHB 2019 was introduced in the 2021-22 Washington legislative session by CWDBoehnke. It became law.
- 2021-22 session
- House
- Became law
- 2 public hearings
- Sponsor: CWD(Boehnke
Source Washington State Legislature web services: legislation, hearings and roll calls · as of 2026-08-07 · introduced 2022-01-27
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Where it stopped
Became law
- Last recorded action
- Effective date 6/9/2022.
- Session law
- C 278 L 22 — chapter and year in the session laws
- Last committee
- Senate Higher Education & Workforce 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 2026-08-07
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What it would do
The Legislature’s own description. We do not paraphrase legislation.
Increasing educational and training opportunities for careers in retail.
Legal title AN ACT Relating to increasing educational and training opportunities for careers in retail;
Source WA Legislature legislation service · as of 2026-08-07
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-01-24 | Public | House College & Workforce Development | House |
| 2022-01-27 | Executive | House College & Workforce Development | House |
| 2022-02-22 | Public | Senate Higher Education & Workforce Development | Senate |
| 2022-02-24 | Executive | Senate Higher Education & Workforce Development | Senate |
Source WA Legislature committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-07 · 2 public, 2 executive
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The votes
Recorded floor votes. Committee votes are in the hearing record above.
HOUSE · 2022-02-02
3rd Reading & Final Passage
94
yea
2
nay
2
absent or excused
SENATE · 2022-03-03
3rd Reading & Final Passage
49
yea
0
nay
Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-07 · 2 recorded votes
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Versions
| Version | Substitute | Engrossed | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB 2019 | — | — | 1st substitute bill substituted. |
| SHB 2019 | 1 | — | Effective date 6/9/2022. |
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
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SPONSORED BY
CWD(Boehnke
WA Legislature, bill sponsorship record
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HEARD BY
House College & Workforce Development
WA Legislature, committee agenda
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HEARD BY
Senate Higher Education & Workforce Development
WA Legislature, committee agenda
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
Cite this page
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“SHB 2019 — Careers in retail,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-09. https://washingtonindependents.org/bill/2021-22-hb-2019/
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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.