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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Allowing medical assistants with telehealth supervision to provide intramuscular injections for syphilis treatment."
+description: "Allowing medical assistants with telehealth supervision to provide intramuscular injections for syphilis treatment."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2023-2024"
+identifier: "SB 5983"
+citation: "Washington SB 5983 (2023-2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Liias"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2024-01-04"
+last_action: "2024-03-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/689d3c45-2448-4344-8fe2-8efc136bf73a"
+source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=5983&year=2023"
+source_hash: "e390ea865d2f131520fc094b0f5ecfd6d654e326071bfb5c4ee68e006d1dc323"
+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"]
+---
+
+# Washington SB 5983 (2023-2024) — Allowing medical assistants with telehealth supervision to provide intramuscular injections for syphilis treatment.
+
+## 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/5983.htm)
+2. **Engrossed Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5983-S.E.htm)
+3. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5983-S.htm)
+4. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5983-S.PL.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#30) — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+- Final Passage as Amended by the House (#33) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+- Final Passage as Amended by the House (#37) — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Liias — primary (person)
+- Dhingra — cosponsor (person)
+- Nobles — cosponsor (person)
+- Pedersen — cosponsor (person)
+- Rivers — cosponsor (person)
+- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
+- Van De Wege — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-04** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
+- **2024-01-08** First reading, referred to Health & Long Term Care. `reading-1`
+- **2024-01-18** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Health & Long Term Care at 10:30 AM.
+- **2024-01-23** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Health & Long Term Care at 8:00 AM.
+- **2024-01-23** HLTC - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
+- **2024-01-24** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
+- **2024-02-02** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-06** 1st substitute bill substituted (HLTC 24). `substitution`
+- **2024-02-06** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
+- **2024-02-06** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-06** Third reading, passed; yeas, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-08** First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness. `reading-1`
+- **2024-02-16** Public hearing in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 8:00 AM.
+- **2024-02-20** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 1:30 PM.
+- **2024-02-20** HCW - Majority; do pass with amendment(s). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-02-21** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-24** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-27** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-27** Committee amendment(s) adopted with no other amendments.
+- **2024-02-27** Third reading, passed; yeas, 95; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 3. `reading-3`
+- **2024-03-04** Senate concurred in House amendments.
+- **2024-03-04** Passed final passage; yeas, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. `passage`
+- **2024-03-06** President signed. `passage`
+- **2024-03-07** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2024-03-08** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-03-25** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2024-03-25** Chapter 248, 2024 Laws. `became-law`
+- **2024-03-25** Effective date 3/25/2024. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/689d3c45-2448-4344-8fe2-8efc136bf73a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
+