ESB 5352 — Vehicular pursuits
ESB 5352 was introduced in the 2023-24 Washington legislative session by Senator Lovick. It became law.
- 2023-24 session
- Senate
- Became law
- No public hearing
- Sponsor: Lovick
Source Washington State Legislature web services: legislation, hearings and roll calls · as of 2026-09-09 · introduced 2023-01-13
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Where it stopped
Became law
- Last recorded action
- Effective date 5/3/2023.
- Session law
- C 235 L 23 — chapter and year in the session laws
- Last committee
- House Community Safety — the last committee with this bill on an agenda
- Public hearing
- None 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 vehicular pursuits.
Legal title AN ACT Relating to vehicular pursuits;
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.
SENATE · 2023-03-08
219 Padden Pg 1 Ln 16
20
yea
29
nay
| Caucus | Yea | Nay | Absent or excused | Members voting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DDemocratic | 0 | 29 | 0 | 29 |
| RRepublican | 20 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| Total | 20 | 29 | 0 | 49 |
49 of 49 seats recorded — the columns add to the chamber.
No member voted against their own caucus’s majority on this motion.
SENATE · 2023-03-08
220 Short Pg 1 Ln 16
20
yea
29
nay
| Caucus | Yea | Nay | Absent or excused | Members voting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DDemocratic | 0 | 29 | 0 | 29 |
| RRepublican | 20 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| Total | 20 | 29 | 0 | 49 |
49 of 49 seats recorded — the columns add to the chamber.
No member voted against their own caucus’s majority on this motion.
SENATE · 2023-03-08
3rd Reading & Final Passage
26
yea
23
nay
| Caucus | Yea | Nay | Absent or excused | Members voting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DDemocratic | 16 | 13 | 0 | 29 |
| RRepublican | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Total | 26 | 23 | 0 | 49 |
49 of 49 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.
- DDemocratic Frame LD 36 NAY
- DDemocratic Hasegawa LD 11 NAY
- DDemocratic Hunt LD 22 NAY
- DDemocratic Kuderer LD 48 NAY
- DDemocratic Lovelett LD 40 NAY
- DDemocratic Nguyen LD 34 NAY
- DDemocratic Nobles LD 28 NAY
- DDemocratic Pedersen LD 43 NAY
- DDemocratic Saldaña LD 37 NAY
- DDemocratic Stanford LD 1 NAY
- DDemocratic Trudeau LD 27 NAY
- DDemocratic Valdez LD 46 NAY
- DDemocratic Wilson, C. LD 30 NAY
SENATE · 2023-03-08
218 Gildon Pg 1 Ln 16
20
yea
29
nay
| Caucus | Yea | Nay | Absent or excused | Members voting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DDemocratic | 0 | 29 | 0 | 29 |
| RRepublican | 20 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| Total | 20 | 29 | 0 | 49 |
49 of 49 seats recorded — the columns add to the chamber.
No member voted against their own caucus’s majority on this motion.
HOUSE · 2023-04-10
Final Passage as Amended by the House
57
yea
40
nay
1
absent or excused
| Caucus | Yea | Nay | Absent or excused | Members voting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DDemocratic | 38 | 19 | 1 | 58 |
| RRepublican | 19 | 21 | 0 | 40 |
| Total | 57 | 40 | 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.
- DDemocratic Alvarado LD 34 NAY
- RRepublican Barnard LD 8 YEA
- DDemocratic Bateman LD 22 NAY
- DDemocratic Berry LD 36 NAY
- RRepublican Chandler LD 15 YEA
- RRepublican Cheney LD 18 YEA
- DDemocratic Chopp LD 43 NAY
- RRepublican Christian LD 4 YEA
- RRepublican Connors LD 8 YEA
- RRepublican Dent LD 13 YEA
- DDemocratic Doglio LD 22 NAY
- DDemocratic Entenman LD 47 NAY
- RRepublican Eslick LD 39 YEA
- DDemocratic Farivar LD 46 NAY
- RRepublican Goehner LD 12 YEA
- DDemocratic Gregerson LD 33 NAY
- RRepublican Klicker LD 16 YEA
- RRepublican Low LD 39 YEA
- DDemocratic Macri LD 43 NAY
- RRepublican McClintock LD 18 YEA
- DDemocratic Mena LD 29 NAY
- DDemocratic Morgan LD 29 NAY
- RRepublican Mosbrucker LD 14 YEA
- RRepublican Orcutt LD 20 YEA
- DDemocratic Ormsby LD 3 NAY
- DDemocratic Pollet LD 46 NAY
- DDemocratic Reed LD 36 NAY
- RRepublican Sandlin LD 15 YEA
- DDemocratic Santos LD 37 NAY
- RRepublican Schmick LD 9 YEA
- RRepublican Schmidt LD 4 YEA
- DDemocratic Slatter LD 48 NAY
- RRepublican Steele LD 12 YEA
- DDemocratic Street LD 37 NAY
- DDemocratic Taylor LD 30 NAY
- DDemocratic Thai LD 41 NAY
- RRepublican Waters LD 17 YEA
- RRepublican Ybarra LD 13 YEA
SENATE · 2023-04-17
Final Passage as Amended by the House
26
yea
22
nay
1
absent or excused
| Caucus | Yea | Nay | Absent or excused | Members voting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DDemocratic | 16 | 13 | 0 | 29 |
| RRepublican | 10 | 9 | 1 | 20 |
| Total | 26 | 22 | 1 | 49 |
49 of 49 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 Boehnke LD 8 NAY
- RRepublican Braun LD 20 NAY
- RRepublican Dozier LD 16 NAY
- DDemocratic Frame LD 36 NAY
- DDemocratic Hasegawa LD 11 NAY
- DDemocratic Hunt LD 22 NAY
- DDemocratic Kuderer LD 48 NAY
- DDemocratic Lovelett LD 40 NAY
- RRepublican McCune LD 2 NAY
- DDemocratic Nguyen LD 34 NAY
- DDemocratic Nobles LD 28 NAY
- RRepublican Padden LD 4 NAY
- DDemocratic Pedersen LD 43 NAY
- DDemocratic Saldaña LD 37 NAY
- RRepublican Schoesler LD 9 NAY
- RRepublican Short LD 7 NAY
- DDemocratic Trudeau LD 27 NAY
- DDemocratic Valdez LD 46 NAY
- RRepublican Wagoner LD 39 NAY
- RRepublican Warnick LD 13 NAY
- DDemocratic Wellman LD 41 NAY
- DDemocratic Wilson, C. LD 30 NAY
Sources WA Legislature roll-call archive (floor); chamber roster for party · as of 2026-09-09 · rows 6 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
Lovick
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.
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The hearing record
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| Date | Type | Committee | Chamber |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-03-28 | Executive | House Community Safety | House |
None of these was a public hearing. This bill reached a committee agenda but testimony was never taken on it.
Source WA Legislature committee hearing records · as of 2026-09-09 · rows 0 public, 1 executive · how hearings are read
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What changed between versions
| Version | Substitute | Engrossed | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| SB 5352 | — | — | — |
| ESB 5352 | — | 1 | Effective date 5/3/2023. |
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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Common questions
- What happened to ESB 5352?
- ESB 5352 became law. The Legislature’s status record places it at “C 235 L 23” — its chapter and year in the session laws.
- Who sponsored ESB 5352?
- The prime sponsor of record is Lovick, 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 ESB 5352 do?
- In the Legislature’s own description: “Concerning vehicular pursuits.” We quote the official language rather than summarising, because a paraphrase of legislation is an interpretation.
- Was there a recorded vote on ESB 5352?
- Yes. 6 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 ESB 5352 get a public hearing?
- No public hearing is on record for ESB 5352. Testimony was never taken on it, which is the ordinary fate of most bills that do not advance — not evidence that anyone blocked it.
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