BILL · 2023–24 SESSION

HB 1158: Advisory votes

Encouraging electoral participation and making ballots more meaningful by abolishing advisory votes.

Summary

Repeals provisions that require legislative tax increases to be subject to an advisory vote in which voters at the next general election may express a preference for the tax increases to be repealed or maintained.
Requires that certain information about recent state budgets and state and local expenditures must be included in voters' pamphlets in even-numbered years.
Requires the Office of Financial Management to produce fiscal impact statements for enacted legislation that impacts state revenues.

From the House Bill Analysis 2023 (HB 1158), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to encouraging electoral participation and making ballots more meaningful by abolishing advisory votes;

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.

HB 1158 (2025–26) Community inclusion services · Did not pass · died in committee
HB 1158 (2021–22) Emergencies/executive branch · Did not pass · died in committee
HB 1158 (2019–20) Permanent cosmetics · Did not pass · passed House, stalled in Senate
HB 1158 (2017–18) I-200 repeal · Did not pass · died in committee
HB 1158 (2015–16) Growth mgmt/sup court review · Did not pass · died in committee
HB 1158 (2013–14) Annexation/military purposes · Did not pass · passed House, stalled in Senate
HB 1158 (2011–12) Ballot title information · Did not pass · died in committee
HB 1158 (2009–10) Electronic juror signatures · Enacted · Chapter 330, Laws of 2009