Bill · Washington State Legislature · 2023-24
ESHB 1971 — Rangeland fire pilot
ESHB 1971 was introduced in the 2023-24 Washington legislative session. It received 1 public hearing and did not become law.
- 2023-24 session
- Did not become law
- 1 public hearing
Source Washington State Legislature web services: legislation, hearings and roll calls · as of 2026-08-07
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Where it stopped
Died
- Last committee
- House Agriculture & Natural Resources — the last committee with this bill on an agenda
- Public hearing
- Yes — 1 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
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What it would do
The Legislature’s own description. We do not paraphrase legislation.
Concerning a rangeland fire protection association pilot project.
Source WA Legislature legislation service · as of 2026-08-07
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-12 | Public | House Agriculture & Natural Resources | House |
| 2024-01-31 | Executive | House Agriculture & Natural Resources | House |
Source WA Legislature committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-07 · 1 public, 1 executive
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The votes
Recorded floor votes. Committee votes are in the hearing record above.
No recorded floor vote. The bill never reached the floor of either chamber, so no member is on record for or against it.
Last checked 2026-08-07
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Versions
| Version | Substitute | Engrossed | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB 1971 | — | — | Referred to Appropriations. |
| SHB 1971 | 1 | — | Referred to Appropriations. |
| ESHB 1971 | 1 | 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 2026-08-07
Source WA Legislature legislation service · as of 2026-08-07
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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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Connected records
Every link this page draws, grouped by how well a document supports it.
On the record
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HEARD BY
House Agriculture & Natural Resources
WA Legislature, committee agenda
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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“ESHB 1971 — Rangeland fire pilot,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-09. https://washingtonindependents.org/bill/2023-24-hb-1971/
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Where this page comes from
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.