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type: "Bill"
title: "Ensuring elementary school students receive sufficient daily recess."
description: "Ensuring elementary school students receive sufficient daily recess."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "SB 5257"
citation: "Washington SB 5257 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nobles"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 32
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-01-11"
last_action: "2023-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/38f2242e-9696-41fa-8390-4e88ec2bcc56"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=5257&year=2023"
source_hash: "d4e544de21b476cfb6cb02b934e284dbfb5d2d78ca6e20820974818b9a68a7c4"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wa"]
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# Washington SB 5257 (2023-2024) — Ensuring elementary school students receive sufficient daily recess.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5257.htm)
2. **Engrossed Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5257-S.E.htm)
3. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5257-S.htm)
4. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5257-S.PL.htm)
## Votes
- Final Passage as Amended by the House (#6) — **81–15** (pass) · lower
- Final Passage as Amended by the House (#29) — **27–18** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#2) — **28–21** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Nobles — primary (person)
- Billig — cosponsor (person)
- C. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Cleveland — cosponsor (person)
- Dozier — cosponsor (person)
- Frame — cosponsor (person)
- Hasegawa — cosponsor (person)
- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- Liias — cosponsor (person)
- Lovelett — cosponsor (person)
- Lovick — cosponsor (person)
- Nguyen — cosponsor (person)
- Saldaña — cosponsor (person)
- Valdez — cosponsor (person)
- Wellman — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-01-11** First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education. `reading-1`
- **2023-01-18** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education at 1:30 PM.
- **2023-01-26** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education at 1:30 PM.
- **2023-02-01** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education at 1:30 PM.
- **2023-02-01** EDU - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
- **2023-02-01** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2023-02-01** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2023-02-02** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2023-02-15** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2023-02-20** 1st substitute bill substituted (EDU 23). `substitution`
- **2023-02-20** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
- **2023-02-20** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-02-20** Third reading, passed; yeas, 28; nays, 21; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2023-02-22** First reading, referred to Education. `reading-1`
- **2023-03-01** Public hearing in the House Committee on Education at 8:00 AM.
- **2023-03-09** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Education at 8:00 AM.
- **2023-03-09** ED - Majority; do pass with amendment(s) by Education. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-09** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2023-03-09** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2023-03-13** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-17** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2023-03-20** Committee amendment(s) adopted with no other amendments.
- **2023-03-20** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-03-20** Third reading, passed; yeas, 81; nays, 15; absent, 0; excused, 2. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-14** Senate concurred in House amendments.
- **2023-04-14** Passed final passage; yeas, 27; nays, 18; absent, 0; excused, 4. `passage`
- **2023-04-18** President signed. `passage`
- **2023-04-20** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2023-04-20** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-04** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-04** Chapter 272, 2023 Laws. `became-law`
- **2023-05-04** Effective date 7/23/2023. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/38f2242e-9696-41fa-8390-4e88ec2bcc56`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).