Bill · Washington State Legislature · 2021-22

SB 5196 — Special legislative sessions

SB 5196 was introduced in the 2021-22 Washington legislative session by Billig. It became law.

2021-22 session
Senate
Became law
2 public hearings
Sponsor: Billig

Source Washington State Legislature web services: legislation, hearings and roll calls · as of 2026-08-07 · introduced 2021-01-13

Where it stopped

Became law

Last recorded action: Effective date 6/9/2022.
Session law: C 150 L 22 — chapter and year in the session laws
Last committee: House State Government & Tribal Relations — 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

What it would do

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

Describing how the legislature may convene a special session.

Legal title AN ACT Relating to how the legislature may convene a special session;

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
2021-01-27	Public	Senate State Government & Elections	Senate
2021-02-03	Executive	Senate State Government & Elections	Senate
2022-02-16	Public	House State Government & Tribal Relations	House
2022-02-23	Executive	House State Government & Tribal Relations	House

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

The votes

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

SENATE · 2021-02-24

3rd Reading & Final Passage

yea

nay

absent or excused

SENATE · 2022-01-19

3rd Reading & Final Passage

yea

nay

HOUSE · 2022-03-04

3rd Reading & Final Passage

yea

nay

absent or excused

Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-07 · 3 recorded votes

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

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 None of them follow from the records we hold, so we do not publish them.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.

Connected records

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

On the record

SPONSORED BY

Billig

WA Legislature, bill sponsorship record
HEARD BY

Senate State Government & Elections

WA Legislature, committee agenda
HEARD BY

House State Government & Tribal Relations

WA Legislature, committee agenda

Same detail on two records — not a relationship

SHARES A SPONSOR

Other bills Billig 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

Cite this page

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“SB 5196 — Special legislative sessions,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-09. https://washingtonindependents.org/bill/2021-22-sb-5196/

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.