HB 1978 — Concerning transparency in election tabulation devices.
Congress · introduced 2025-02-14
AN ACT Relating to transparency in election tabulation devices;
Latest action: 2026-01-12 — By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
Sponsors
- Chase, Rob (R, WA-4) — sponsor · 2025-02-14
- Waters, Kevin (R, WA-17) — cosponsor · 2025-02-14
- Marshall, Matt (R, WA-2) — cosponsor · 2025-02-14
- Schmidt, Suzanne (R, WA-4) — cosponsor · 2025-02-14
- Volz, Mike (R, WA-6) — cosponsor · 2025-02-14
- Ley, John (R, WA-18) — cosponsor · 2025-02-14
Action timeline
- · house — First reading, referred to State Government & Tribal Relations.
- · house — By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
Text versions
No text versions on file yet — same ingest as the action timeline populates these. Each version has direct links to the XML / HTML / PDF at govinfo.gov.
Connected on the graph
Inbound (6)
| date | from | type | amount | role | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-14 | Ley, John | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-02-14 | Marshall, Matt | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-02-14 | Schmidt, Suzanne | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-02-14 | Volz, Mike | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-02-14 | Waters, Kevin | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-02-14 | Chase, Rob | sponsor_of_bill | — | sponsor | sponsorship |
Who matters
Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.
| # | Member | Role | Speeches | Voted | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chase, Rob (R, state_lower WA-4) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
| 2 | Ley, John (R, state_lower WA-18) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 3 | Marshall, Matt (R, state_lower WA-2) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 4 | Schmidt, Suzanne (R, state_lower WA-4) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 5 | Volz, Mike (R, state_lower WA-6) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 6 | Waters, Kevin (R, state_lower WA-17) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
Predicted vote
Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.
0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)
By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no
Activity
Every typed-graph event involving this entity, newest first. Each row is one edge in the influence graph; click the date to jump to its provenance.
- 2025-02-14 · sponsored by Chase, Rob (sponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-02-14 · cosponsored by Volz, Mike (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-02-14 · cosponsored by Schmidt, Suzanne (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-02-14 · cosponsored by Ley, John (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-02-14 · cosponsored by Marshall, Matt (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-02-14 · cosponsored by Waters, Kevin (cosponsor) · sponsorship