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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Concerning compensation in frontier counties for deer and elk damage."
+description: "Concerning compensation in frontier counties for deer and elk damage."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "SB 5165"
+citation: "Washington SB 5165 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Short"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-08"
+last_action: "2025-04-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/18b4c251-cce2-4807-aded-de8f47843eb4"
+source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=5165&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
+source_hash: "16fb6bed0277360376a1c48949f5570e1c3a887770c5331ba71f6dae475b4d65"
+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 5165 (2025-2026) — Concerning compensation in frontier counties for deer and elk damage.
+
+## 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/5165.htm)
+2. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5165-S.htm)
+3. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5165-S.PL.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#17) — **48–0** (pass) · upper
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#31) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Short — primary (person)
+- Chapman — cosponsor (person)
+- Dozier — cosponsor (person)
+- Wagoner — cosponsor (person)
+- Warnick — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-08** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
+- **2025-01-13** First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources. `reading-1`
+- **2025-01-20** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources at 1:30 PM.
+- **2025-01-30** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources at 1:30 PM.
+- **2025-01-30** ANR - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
+- **2025-02-03** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
+- **2025-02-12** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-19** 1st substitute bill substituted (ANR 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`
+- **2025-02-24** First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources. `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-19** Public hearing in the House Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources at 8:00 AM.
+- **2025-03-21** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources at 10:30 AM.
+- **2025-03-21** AGNR - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-25** Referred to Appropriations. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-05** Public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 9:00 AM.
+- **2025-04-08** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Appropriations at 10:30 AM.
+- **2025-04-08** APP - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-08** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-11** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-11** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-11** Third reading, passed; yeas, 96; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 2. `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-16** President signed. `passage`
+- **2025-04-18** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2025-04-22** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-30** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-30** Chapter 185, 2025 Laws. `became-law`
+- **2025-04-30** 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/18b4c251-cce2-4807-aded-de8f47843eb4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
+