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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Establishing preceptorship and hardship pathways to medical practice for international medical graduates."
+description: "Establishing preceptorship and hardship pathways to medical practice for international medical graduates."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "SB 5185"
+citation: "Washington SB 5185 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Saldaña"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 32
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-01-08"
+last_action: "2026-03-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/89de7ccc-34b8-4ae4-b778-e329f2ff12f9"
+source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=5185&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
+source_hash: "9b64415a0cd9a67ff581e3d6924206afbdc91277b9f65a31180a6faa8a4b28d0"
+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 5185 (2025-2026) — Establishing preceptorship and hardship pathways to medical practice for international medical graduates.
+
+## 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/5185.htm)
+2. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5185-S.htm)
+3. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5185-S.PL.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#5) — **39–9** (pass) · upper
+- Final Passage as Amended by the House (#13) — **41–8** (pass) · upper
+- Final Passage as Amended by the House (#2) — **89–4** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Saldaña — primary (person)
+- Bateman — cosponsor (person)
+- Chapman — cosponsor (person)
+- Cleveland — cosponsor (person)
+- Cortes — cosponsor (person)
+- Dhingra — cosponsor (person)
+- Hasegawa — cosponsor (person)
+- Nguyen — cosponsor (person)
+- Nobles — cosponsor (person)
+- Orwall — cosponsor (person)
+- Riccelli — cosponsor (person)
+- Stanford — cosponsor (person)
+- Valdez — cosponsor (person)
+- Wellman — 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 Health & Long-Term Care. `reading-1`
+- **2025-01-31** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Health & Long-Term Care at 8:00 AM.
+- **2025-02-14** Executive session scheduled, but no action was taken in the Senate Committee on Health & Long-Term Care at 8:00 AM.
+- **2025-02-18** Executive session scheduled, but no action was taken in the Senate Committee on Health & Long-Term Care at 10:30 AM.
+- **2026-01-12** By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
+- **2026-01-27** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Health & Long-Term Care at 10:30 AM.
+- **2026-01-30** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Health & Long-Term Care at 8:00 AM.
+- **2026-01-30** HLTC - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
+- **2026-01-30** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2026-02-02** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
+- **2026-02-04** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-06** 1st substitute bill substituted (HLTC 26). `substitution`
+- **2026-02-06** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-06** Third reading, passed; yeas, 39; nays, 9; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-10** First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness. `reading-1`
+- **2026-02-20** Public hearing in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 8:00 AM.
+- **2026-02-24** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 1:30 PM.
+- **2026-02-24** HCW - Majority; do pass with amendment(s). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-02-25** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
+- **2026-03-02** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
+- **2026-03-03** Committee amendment(s) adopted with no other amendments.
+- **2026-03-03** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-03** Third reading, passed; yeas, 89; nays, 4; absent, 0; excused, 5. `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-09** Senate concurred in House amendments.
+- **2026-03-09** Passed final passage; yeas, 41; nays, 8; absent, 0; excused, 0. `passage`
+- **2026-03-10** President signed. `passage`
+- **2026-03-11** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2026-03-12** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-03-23** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2026-03-23** Chapter 154, 2026 Laws. `became-law`
+- **2026-03-23** Effective date 6/11/2026. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/89de7ccc-34b8-4ae4-b778-e329f2ff12f9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
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