SR 8601 — Senate emergency rules
SR 8601 was introduced in the 2021-22 Washington legislative session by Liias. It never received a public hearing and did not become law.
Dying without a vote is the ordinary outcome for a Washington bill, not a scandal and not a failure of any one person. This page shows where it stopped, who was recorded, and what the record does not say.
- 2021-22 session
- Senate
- Did not become law
- No public hearing
- Sponsor: Liias
Source Washington State Legislature web services: legislation, hearings and roll calls · as of 2026-08-12 · introduced 0001-01-01
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Where it stopped
Died
- Last recorded action
- Adopted; yeas, 28; nays, 18; absent, 0; excused, 3.
- Position
- S Adopted — the Legislature's own location code
- Public hearing
- None on record — a public hearing is where testimony is taken; an executive session is where a committee votes
This bill was never given a public hearing. It was introduced, referred to committee, and the session ended without testimony ever being taken on it. That is the ordinary fate of 44% of the bills that die in Washington — it is not evidence that anyone blocked it, and we do not know who decided.
Last checked 2026-08-12
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.
Adopting the senate's emergency parliamentary rules of the sixty-seventh legislature.
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.
SENATE · 2021-01-11
1 Short Pg 1 Ln 5
18
yea
28
nay
3
absent or excused
SENATE · 2021-01-11
2 Padden Pg 4 Ln 31
18
yea
28
nay
3
absent or excused
SENATE · 2021-01-11
Adoption
28
yea
18
nay
3
absent or excused
Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-12 · 3 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.
Prime sponsor
Liias
as printed the sponsor line on the bill status record · introduced in the Senate. A committee substitute prints the committee here, with the originating member in parentheses.
The co-sponsor roster is not on this page. We hold the prime sponsor the Legislature prints on the bill status, not the list of co-sponsors, which is published only in the introduced bill text we have not ingested. A co-sponsor count here would be a number no record we hold contains.
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.
This bill never appeared on a committee agenda. It was introduced and referred, and no committee ever scheduled it. Roughly half the bills that die in Washington die this way.
Last checked 2026-08-12
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What changed between 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 2026-08-12
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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 SR 8601?
- SR 8601 did not become law. The 2021-22 session ended without it passing both chambers, so it is not law.
- Who sponsored SR 8601?
- The prime sponsor of record is 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 SR 8601 do?
- In the Legislature’s own description: “Adopting the senate's emergency parliamentary rules of the sixty-seventh legislature.” We quote the official language rather than summarising, because a paraphrase of legislation is an interpretation.
- Was there a recorded vote on SR 8601?
- Yes. 3 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 SR 8601 get a public hearing?
- No public hearing is on record for SR 8601. Testimony was never taken on it, which is the ordinary fate of most bills that do not advance — not evidence that anyone blocked it.
Cite this page
This is public-records reporting. Use it, and say where it came from.
“SR 8601 — Senate emergency rules,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-12, accessed 2026-09-01. https://washingtonindependents.org/bill/2021-22-sr-8601/
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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.