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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Ensuring patient choice and access to care by prohibiting unfair and deceptive dental insurance practices."
+description: "Ensuring patient choice and access to care by prohibiting unfair and deceptive dental insurance practices."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "SB 5351"
+citation: "Washington SB 5351 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["King"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-17"
+last_action: "2025-05-12"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/20718a5b-8b1b-4d26-ab60-9ac4c2dbeead"
+source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=5351&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
+source_hash: "9e8f5888d8f3f4840ed84d8b90c9abfa6fb2dd64f24689ccbd83caf9c87e10fe"
+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 5351 (2025-2026) — Ensuring patient choice and access to care by prohibiting unfair and deceptive dental insurance practices.
+
+## 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/5351.htm)
+2. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5351-S.htm)
+3. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5351-S.PL.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#5) — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#17) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- King — primary (person)
+- Chapman — cosponsor (person)
+- Christian — cosponsor (person)
+- Cleveland — cosponsor (person)
+- Conway — cosponsor (person)
+- Frame — cosponsor (person)
+- Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Hasegawa — cosponsor (person)
+- Holy — cosponsor (person)
+- Muzzall — cosponsor (person)
+- Nobles — cosponsor (person)
+- Orwall — cosponsor (person)
+- Salomon — cosponsor (person)
+- Shewmake — cosponsor (person)
+- Trudeau — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-17** First reading, referred to Health & Long-Term Care. `reading-1`
+- **2025-01-30** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Health & Long-Term Care at 8:00 AM.
+- **2025-02-21** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Health & Long-Term Care at 8:00 AM.
+- **2025-02-21** HLTC - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
+- **2025-02-21** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2025-02-21** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
+- **2025-03-03** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-10** 1st substitute bill substituted (HLTC 25). `substitution`
+- **2025-03-10** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-10** Third reading, passed; yeas, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-12** First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness. `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-19** Public hearing in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 1:30 PM.
+- **2025-03-25** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 1:30 PM.
+- **2025-03-25** HCW - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-27** Referred to Appropriations. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-03** Public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 1:30 PM.
+- **2025-04-05** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Appropriations at 9:00 AM.
+- **2025-04-05** APP - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-08** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-10** 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, 94; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 4. `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-16** President signed. `passage`
+- **2025-04-18** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2025-04-22** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-12** Governor partially vetoed. `executive-veto-line-item`
+- **2025-05-12** Chapter 219, 2025 Laws PV. `became-law`
+- **2025-05-12** 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/20718a5b-8b1b-4d26-ab60-9ac4c2dbeead`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
+