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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Making transportation appropriations for the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium."
+description: "Making transportation appropriations for the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "SB 5161"
+citation: "Washington SB 5161 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Liias"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 35
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2025-01-07"
+last_action: "2025-05-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/14329ecb-83f6-4414-990b-ac1cacd02588"
+source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=5161&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
+source_hash: "95d724382b75760ad04ea9a9db34eefac7fa1017172399f2e16533bf00c3ef4d"
+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 5161 (2025-2026) — Making transportation appropriations for the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium.
+
+## 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/5161.htm)
+2. **Engrossed Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5161-S.E.htm)
+3. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5161-S.htm)
+4. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5161-S.PL.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Final Passage as Amended by the House (#1) — **66–30** (pass) · lower
+- Final Passage as Recommended by the Conference Committee (#11) — **80–18** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#5) — **34–15** (pass) · upper
+- Final Passage as Recommended by Conference Committee (#6) — **34–13** (pass) · upper
+- Adoption as Recommended by the Conference Committee (#10) — **86–12** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Liias — primary (person)
+- King — cosponsor (person)
+- Nobles — 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 Transportation. `reading-1`
+- **2025-01-14** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Transportation at 4:00 PM.
+- **2025-03-25** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Transportation at 4:00 PM.
+- **2025-03-27** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Transportation at 4:00 PM.
+- **2025-03-27** TRAN - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
+- **2025-03-27** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2025-03-27** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2025-03-28** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
+- **2025-03-28** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-29** 1st substitute bill substituted (TRAN 25). `substitution`
+- **2025-03-29** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
+- **2025-03-29** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-29** Third reading, passed; yeas, 34; nays, 15; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-02** Read first time, rules suspended, and placed on second reading calendar. `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-02** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
+- **2025-04-02** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-02** Third reading, passed; yeas, 66; nays, 30; absent, 0; excused, 2. `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-17** Senate refuses to concur in House amendments. Asks House for conference thereon.
+- **2025-04-17** Conference committee appointed. Senators Liias, Ramos, King.
+- **2025-04-21** Conference committee request granted.
+- **2025-04-21** Conference committee appointed. Representatives Fey, Donaghy, Barkis.
+- **2025-04-22** Conference committee reappointed. Senators Liias, Lovick, King.
+- **2025-04-26** Conference committee report; received 10:41 AM 4/26/2025.
+- **2025-04-26** Conference committee report; received 11:05 AM 4/26/2025.
+- **2025-04-27** Conference committee report adopted.
+- **2025-04-27** Passed final passage as recommended by conference committee; yeas, 80; nays, 18; absent, 0; excused, 0.
+- **2025-04-27** Conference committee report adopted.
+- **2025-04-27** Passed final passage as recommended by conference committee; yeas, 34; nays, 13; absent, 0; excused, 1.
+- **2025-04-27** President signed. `passage`
+- **2025-04-27** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2025-04-28** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-20** Governor partially vetoed. `executive-veto-line-item`
+- **2025-05-20** Chapter 416, 2025 Laws PV. `became-law`
+- **2025-05-20** Effective date 5/20/2025*. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/14329ecb-83f6-4414-990b-ac1cacd02588`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
+