ESSB 5078 — Large capacity magazines

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Where it stopped

Became law

Last recorded action

Effective date 7/1/2022.

Session law

C 104 L 22 — chapter and year in the session laws

Last committee

House Civil Rights & Judiciary — 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.

Addressing firearm safety measures to increase public safety. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Establishing firearms-related safety measures to increase public safety by prohibiting the manufacture, importation, distribution, selling, and offering for sale of large capacity magazines, and by providing limited exemptions applicable to licensed firearms manufacturers and dealers for purposes of sale to armed forces branches and law enforcement agencies for purposes of sale or transfer outside the state.)

Legal title AN ACT Relating to establishing firearms-related safety measures to increase public safety by prohibiting the manufacture, possession, distribution, importation, selling, offering for sale, purchasing, or transfer of large capacity magazines, by allowing continued possession of large capacity magazines limited to possession prior to, and inheritance on or after, the effective date of this act, subject to certain restrictions on the ability to sell or transfer such large capacity magazines and permitting their possession only on the owner's property or while engaged in lawful outdoor recreational activities or use at a licensed shooting range, or when transporting the large capacity magazine to or from these locations, and by providing limited exemptions applicable to certain government officers, agents, employees, or contractors, law enforcement and corrections officers and military members, licensed firearms manufacturers, dealers, and gunsmiths, and persons engaged in sport shooting or permanently relinquishing a large capacity magazine to law enforcement;

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.

Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-12 · 6 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.

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.

Source WA Legislature committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-12 · 2 public, 2 executive

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What changed between versions

Source WA Legislature legislation service · as of 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 ESSB 5078?

ESSB 5078 became law. The Legislature’s status record places it at “C 104 L 22” — its chapter and year in the session laws.

Who sponsored ESSB 5078?

The prime sponsor of record is LAW(Liias, 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 ESSB 5078 do?

In the Legislature’s own description: “Addressing firearm safety measures to increase public safety. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Establishing firearms-related safety measures to increase public safety by prohibiting the manufacture, importation, distribution, selling, and offering for sale of large capacity magazines, and by providing limited exemptions applicable to licensed firearms manufacturers and dealers for purposes of sale to armed forces branches and law enforcement agencies for purposes of sale or transfer outside the state.)” We quote the official language rather than summarising, because a paraphrase of legislation is an interpretation.

Was there a recorded vote on ESSB 5078?

Yes. 6 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 ESSB 5078 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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“ESSB 5078 — Large capacity magazines,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-12, accessed 2026-09-02. https://washingtonindependents.org/bill/2021-22-sb-5078/

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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.