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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Expanding the early childhood court program."
+description: "Expanding the early childhood court program."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "SB 5149"
+citation: "Washington SB 5149 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cortes"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 25
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-07"
+last_action: "2025-04-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6dbeae1c-fb71-4eb7-b21e-f9a0b25558c2"
+source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=5149&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
+source_hash: "958ad5afcf4eb0d6da78046f2842ac26d2ebfeb38dd27755b3607a0f68ec1524"
+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 5149 (2025-2026) — Expanding the early childhood court program.
+
+## 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/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5149.htm)
+2. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5149-S.htm)
+3. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5149-S.PL.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#12) — **48–0** (pass) · upper
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#21) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cortes — primary (person)
+- C. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+- Hasegawa — cosponsor (person)
+- Krishnadasan — cosponsor (person)
+- Liias — cosponsor (person)
+- Nobles — cosponsor (person)
+- Saldaña — cosponsor (person)
+- Salomon — cosponsor (person)
+- Shewmake — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-07** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
+- **2025-01-13** First reading, referred to Human Services. `reading-1`
+- **2025-01-22** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Human Services at 8:00 AM.
+- **2025-01-29** Executive session scheduled, but no action was taken in the Senate Committee on Human Services at 8:00 AM.
+- **2025-02-05** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Human Services at 8:00 AM.
+- **2025-02-05** HS - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
+- **2025-02-06** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
+- **2025-02-12** Placed on second reading consent calendar. `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-19** 1st substitute bill substituted (HS 25). `substitution`
+- **2025-02-19** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-19** Third reading, passed; yeas, 48; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-21** First reading, referred to Early Learning & Human Services. `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-26** Public hearing in the House Committee on Early Learning & Human Services at 1:30 PM.
+- **2025-03-28** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Early Learning & Human Services at 8:30 AM.
+- **2025-03-28** ELHS - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-01** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-10** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-10** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-10** Third reading, passed; yeas, 95; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 3. `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-15** President signed. `passage`
+- **2025-04-16** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2025-04-17** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-22** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-22** Chapter 120, 2025 Laws. `became-law`
+- **2025-04-22** Effective date 7/27/2025. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6dbeae1c-fb71-4eb7-b21e-f9a0b25558c2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
+