BILL · 1997–98 SESSION · LATEST VERSION SSB 5261
SB 5261: Welfare fraud
Studying the use of a finger-imaging system to reduce and prevent welfare fraud.
Summary
- The Attorney General = s office is responsible for a study to evaluate and review the use of finger-imaging identification systems, and to examine possible costs and savings of such a system in Washington State.
From the Senate Bill Report (SB 5261), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗
Did not pass Did not pass · stalled on the Senate floor
- IntroducedJan 21, 1997
- Out of committeestopped here
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- Governor
- Law
- Prime sponsor
- Jim Hargrove (D-24)
- Introduced
- January 21, 1997 in the Senate
- Last action
- January 12, 1998
- Companion bill
- HB 1246
- Budget
- Has a fiscal note
- Versions
- SB 5261, SSB 5261
Sponsors
Prime sponsor: Jim Hargrove (D-24)
2 co-sponsors (0 Democrats, 2 Republicans)
Votes
No recorded floor votes.
History
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SB 5261 in other sessions
Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.
- SB 5261 (2025–26) Nonconsumptive hydropower
- SB 5261 (2023–24) Cemetery authority deadlines
- SB 5261 (2021–22) Police data collection
- SB 5261 (2019–20) Homeless persons/city hiring
- SB 5261 (2017–18) Irrigation district auth.
- SB 5261 (2015–16) Cmty policing/W St. hospital
- SB 5261 (2013–14) Liquor self-checkout
- SB 5261 (2011–12) Manuf housing community mgrs