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E4SHB 1479 — Student restraint, isolation

E4SHB 1479 was introduced in the 2023-24 Washington legislative session by Representative Callan. It received 5 public hearings 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.

  • 2023-24 session
  • House
  • Did not become law
  • 5 public hearings
  • Sponsor: APP(Callan

Source Washington State Legislature web services: legislation, hearings and roll calls · as of 2026-09-09 · introduced 2024-02-05

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Where it stopped

Died

Last recorded action
By resolution, returned to House Rules Committee for third reading.
Position
H Rules 3C — the Legislature's own location code
Last committee
House Appropriations — the last committee with this bill on an agenda
Public hearing
Yes — 5 on record — a public hearing is where testimony is taken; an executive session is where a committee votes

Source WA Legislature bill history — every row links to the chamber record that establishes it · as of 2026-09-09 · how a stop point is read

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What it would do

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

Concerning restraint or isolation of students in public schools and educational programs.

Legal title AN ACT Relating to restraint or isolation of students in public schools and educational programs;

Source WA Legislature bill digest and text, quoted whole · as of 2026-09-09 · edits none — we write no summary of our own

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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

63

yea

31

nay

4

absent or excused

3rd Reading & Final Passage, House — vote by caucus
Caucus Yea Nay Absent or excused Members voting
DDemocratic 56 0 2 58
RRepublican 7 31 2 40
Total 63 31 4 98

98 of 98 seats recorded — the columns add to the chamber.

Members who voted against their caucus majority

Listed because they are the part of the roll call a party-line summary hides. Crossing a caucus is a description of this vote, not a virtue or a betrayal, and we attach no label to it.

  • RRepublican Cheney LD 18 YEA
  • RRepublican Couture LD 35 YEA
  • RRepublican Eslick LD 39 YEA
  • RRepublican Harris LD 17 YEA
  • RRepublican Sandlin LD 15 YEA
  • RRepublican Schmidt LD 4 YEA
  • RRepublican Waters LD 17 YEA

Full roll call, every member by name

HOUSE · 2024-02-13

3rd Reading & Final Passage

79

yea

18

nay

1

absent or excused

3rd Reading & Final Passage, House — vote by caucus
Caucus Yea Nay Absent or excused Members voting
DDemocratic 58 0 0 58
RRepublican 21 18 1 40
Total 79 18 1 98

98 of 98 seats recorded — the columns add to the chamber.

Members who voted against their caucus majority

Listed because they are the part of the roll call a party-line summary hides. Crossing a caucus is a description of this vote, not a virtue or a betrayal, and we attach no label to it.

  • RRepublican Barkis LD 2 NAY
  • RRepublican Barnard LD 8 NAY
  • RRepublican Chambers LD 25 NAY
  • RRepublican Connors LD 8 NAY
  • RRepublican Corry LD 14 NAY
  • RRepublican Dent LD 13 NAY
  • RRepublican Dye LD 9 NAY
  • RRepublican Graham LD 6 NAY
  • RRepublican Harris LD 17 NAY
  • RRepublican Jacobsen LD 25 NAY
  • RRepublican Kretz LD 7 NAY
  • RRepublican Maycumber LD 7 NAY
  • RRepublican Mosbrucker LD 14 NAY
  • RRepublican Orcutt LD 20 NAY
  • RRepublican Schmick LD 9 NAY
  • RRepublican Schmidt LD 4 NAY
  • RRepublican Volz LD 6 NAY
  • RRepublican Waters LD 17 NAY

Full roll call, every member by name

Sources WA Legislature roll-call archive (floor); chamber roster for party · as of 2026-09-09 · rows 2 recorded votes · key member id printed on the roll call, joined to the chamber roster — never a surname · seats the denominator is the constitutional chamber, 98 House and 49 Senate, not our roster · note committee votes are published as sign-off sheets, not roll calls, and are not counted here

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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

APP(Callan

as printed the sponsor line on the bill status record · introduced in the House. 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 2026-09-09

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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. Anyone may register a position on a bill before its hearing without speaking. Those sign-ins are a public record of who showed up — they are not a poll, not a sample of the state, and not a measure of public opinion. They count the people who knew the hearing was happening.

Committee hearing record
Date Type Committee Chamber
2023-01-30 Public House Education House
2023-02-16 Executive House Education House
2023-02-21 Public House Appropriations House
2023-02-24 Executive House Appropriations House
2023-03-20 Public Senate Early Learning & K-12 Education Senate
2024-01-11 Public House Education House
2024-01-30 Executive House Education House
2024-02-03 Public House Appropriations House
2024-02-05 Executive House Appropriations House

Sign-in counts are not held for this session. The committee sign-in record we hold covers 2025-26. Whether anyone registered a position before these hearings cannot be read from what we have, so nothing is said about it.

Last checked 2026-09-09

Source WA Legislature committee hearing records · as of 2026-09-09 · rows 5 public, 4 executive · how hearings are read

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What changed between versions

Versions of this bill
Version Substitute Engrossed Status
HB 1479 — — 2nd substitute bill substituted.
SHB 1479 1 — 2nd substitute bill substituted.
E2SHB 1479 2 1 4th substitute bill substituted.
3SHB 1479 3 — 4th substitute bill substituted.
E4SHB 1479 4 1 By resolution, returned to House Rules Committee for third reading.

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 2026-09-09

Source WA Legislature bill text archive, every version · as of 2026-09-09 · note versions are listed, not compared — a field-by-field diff is prepared by a person or not at all

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Connected records

Everything below is a link some document draws for us. Nothing here is our inference. Grouped by how well the record supports it, always in this order, never sorted by interest.

Joined by us, on a stated key · 1

Two documents joined on a key, and the key is named on every row.

Nothing on file

Votes are in the graph but render as roll-call tables above, not as rows here. Hearings, referrals and companion bills are not in the graph yet. No lobbying registration names this bill in the graph: the L-2 bill lines are not loaded, which is not the same as no lobbying having occurred.

Checked 2026-09-09

Source one query on the edge table, grouped by tier · as of 2026-09-09 · edges 0 filed, 1 composite, 0 adjacency · how edges are built

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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, and the summary feed we hold of them carries no bill column — checked against lobbyist_compensation and lobbyist_reporting, neither of which has one. So we hold no documented link between a lobbying report and a bill number and publish none. That is a limit of the extract, not a claim that no filing anywhere names a bill: reading the L-2 report body is what it would take to find out.
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.
Sign-ins as public opinion
A hearing sign-in sheet counts the people who knew the hearing was happening and could reach it. It is a public record of who showed up, not a poll, not a sample of the state, and not a measure of what Washington thinks. A bill with more sign-ins against it than for it has not been voted down by the public.
An importance score
No ranking of this bill against others, no “major legislation” badge, no prediction of what it will do next. Every bill gets the same page whether it passed, died, or was never heard, and there is no editorial selection of which bills receive one.

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Common questions

What happened to E4SHB 1479?
E4SHB 1479 did not become law. It stopped in House Appropriations. The 2023-24 session ended without it passing both chambers, so it is not law.
Who sponsored E4SHB 1479?
The prime sponsor of record is APP(Callan, 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 E4SHB 1479 do?
In the Legislature’s own description: “Concerning restraint or isolation of students in public schools and educational programs.” We quote the official language rather than summarising, because a paraphrase of legislation is an interpretation.
Was there a recorded vote on E4SHB 1479?
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 E4SHB 1479 get a public hearing?
Yes — 5 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.

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“E4SHB 1479 — Student restraint, isolation,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-09-09, accessed 2026-09-18. https://washingtonindependents.org/bill/2023-24-hb-1479/

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WA Legislature legislation service
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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
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Not loaded
Bill text, amendments, committee votes as individual member records, testimony, and fiscal notes.