SHB 1209 — Controlled substance equip.
SHB 1209 was introduced in the 2023-24 Washington legislative session. It became law.
- 2023-24 session
- Became law
- 2 public hearings
Source Washington State Legislature web services: legislation, hearings and roll calls · as of 2026-08-12
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Where it stopped
Became law
- Last committee
- Senate Law & Justice — 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.
Restricting the possession, purchase, delivery, and sale of certain equipment used to illegally process controlled substances.
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.
HOUSE · 2023-03-07
3rd Reading & Final Passage
95
yea
0
nay
3
absent or excused
SENATE · 2023-03-31
3rd Reading & Final Passage
48
yea
0
nay
1
absent or excused
Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-12 · 2 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.
No sponsor on file. The legislation service returns no prime sponsor for this bill. That is a gap in the record we read, not a bill that was introduced by no one.
Last checked 2026-08-12
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.
| Date | Type | Committee | Chamber |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-01-17 | Public | House Community Safety | House |
| 2023-01-26 | Executive | House Community Safety | House |
| 2023-03-16 | Public | Senate Law & Justice | Senate |
| 2023-03-22 | Executive | Senate Law & Justice | Senate |
Source WA Legislature committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-12 · 2 public, 2 executive
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What changed between versions
| Version | Substitute | Engrossed | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB 1209 | — | — | — |
| EHB 1209 | — | 1 | Effective date 7/23/2023. |
| SHB 1209 | 1 | — | — |
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 2026-08-12
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 SHB 1209?
- SHB 1209 became law. The Legislature’s status record places it at the enacted location code — its chapter and year in the session laws.
- Who sponsored SHB 1209?
- The legislation service returns no prime sponsor for SHB 1209, so the record we read is silent on who introduced it.
- What would SHB 1209 do?
- In the Legislature’s own description: “Restricting the possession, purchase, delivery, and sale of certain equipment used to illegally process controlled substances.” We quote the official language rather than summarising, because a paraphrase of legislation is an interpretation.
- Was there a recorded vote on SHB 1209?
- Yes. 2 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 SHB 1209 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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“SHB 1209 — Controlled substance equip.,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-12, accessed 2026-08-19. https://washingtonindependents.org/bill/2023-24-hb-1209/
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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.