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Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session

AB 578

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

Relating to: increasing funding to the Elections Commission for elections administration positions and making an appropriation. (FE)

Elections commission Electric utility Public employee

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill increases the amount appropriated to the Elections Commission by

$304,100 in each year of the 2017-19 biennium in order to increase the number of

FTE positions authorized to the Elections Commission by 5.0 FTE positions.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Anderson (D) , Berceau (D) , Billings (D) , C. Taylor (D) , Crowley (D) , Fields (D) , Genrich (D) , Goyke (D) , Hebl (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Hintz (D) , Kolste (D) , Novak (R) , Pope (D) , Sargent (D) , Shankland (D) , Sinicki (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Zamarripa (D)

6 cosponsors

Erpenbach (D) , Hansen (D) , Larson (D) , Ringhand (D) , Risser (D) , Vinehout (D)

Votes

Suspending the rules (to take a vote immediately) needs a two-thirds majority — a higher bar than passing the bill, which needs a simple majority. That's why a suspension motion can show more Ayes than the passage vote that follows it. Glossary

Assembly: Refused to suspend rules to withdraw from committee on Campaigns and Elections and take up, Ayes 34, Noes 59

Failed 34–59 Feb 22, 2018 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Oct 24, 2017 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Sargent, Genrich, Hebl, Kolste, Goyke, Pope, Spreitzer, Novak, Sinicki, Billings, Zamarripa, Hesselbein, Anderson, Shankland, C. Taylor, Berceau, Crowley, Hintz and Fields; cosponsored by Senators Erpenbach, Hansen, Ringhand, Larson, Risser and Vinehout

  2. Oct 24, 2017 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Campaigns and Elections

  3. Nov 8, 2017 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Feb 22, 2018 · Assembly

    Refused to suspend rules to withdraw from committee on Campaigns and Elections and take up, Ayes 34, Noes 59

  5. Mar 28, 2018 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1