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HJM 4007 — Motor voter law

HJM 4007 was introduced in the 2025-26 Washington legislative session by Representative Walsh. It has not yet received a public hearing.

  • 2025-26 session
  • House
  • Still before the Legislature
  • No public hearing
  • Sponsor: Walsh

Source Washington State Legislature web services: legislation, hearings and roll calls · as of 2026-08-12 · introduced 2025-03-04

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Where it stopped

Pending

Last recorded action
By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
Position
H State Govt & T — 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 session is still sitting. The 2025-26 biennium has not ended, so we will not say this bill died. A bill sitting in Rules today may move next month.

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.

Requesting that the attorney general of the United States audit and review the state department of licensing's implementation of the "motor voter law."

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.

No recorded floor vote. It has not yet reached a floor vote.

Last checked 2026-08-12

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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

Walsh

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 2026-08-12

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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. No committee has scheduled it so far.

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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Connected records

Every link in this section is an edge in the entity graph: a row in one table, carrying the document that states it. Grouped by how well the record supports it.

Filed · 1

One document states the relation in its own words.

Source Entity graph, synced from the pipeline · as of 2026-08-12 · 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.

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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 HJM 4007?
HJM 4007 is still before the Legislature in the 2025-26 session. Its most recent recorded action is: “By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.” No outcome is final while a session is sitting, so this page does not say it passed or died.
Who sponsored HJM 4007?
The prime sponsor of record is Walsh, 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 HJM 4007 do?
In the Legislature’s own description: “Requesting that the attorney general of the United States audit and review the state department of licensing's implementation of the "motor voter law."” We quote the official language rather than summarising, because a paraphrase of legislation is an interpretation.
Was there a recorded vote on HJM 4007?
HJM 4007 has not reached a recorded floor vote, so no member has a recorded position on it yet.
Did HJM 4007 get a public hearing?
No public hearing is on record for HJM 4007. 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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“HJM 4007 — Motor voter law,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-12, accessed 2026-08-30. https://washingtonindependents.org/bill/2025-26-hjm-4007/

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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.