BILL · 2003–04 SESSION

SB 5688: Election costs

Phasing-in state payment for even-year elections.

Summary

Provides that, whenever state officers or measures are voted upon at a state primary or general election held in an even-numbered year under RCW 29.13.010, the state of Washington shall assume a share of the costs of the primary or election according to the following schedule: (1) 2004, twenty-five percent; (2) 2006, fifty percent; (3) 2008, seventy-five percent; and (4) 2010 and thereafter, one hundred percent.

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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to election costs;

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

SB 5688 (2025–26) Constitutional rights · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5688 (2023–24) Public lands/carbon seq. · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5688 (2021–22) Health care marketplace · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5688 (2019–20) Athletic trainers · Enacted · Chapter 358, Laws of 2019
SB 5688 (2017–18) Special event liquor sales · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5688 (2015–16) Student skills · Did not pass · passed Senate, stalled in House
SB 5688 (2013–14) State & local tax systems · Did not pass · passed Senate, stalled in House
SB 5688 (2011–12) Shark finning activities · Enacted · Chapter 324, Laws of 2011