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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Reorganizing and adding subchapter headings to public employees' collective bargaining statutes."
+description: "Reorganizing and adding subchapter headings to public employees' collective bargaining statutes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "SB 5435"
+citation: "Washington SB 5435 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ramos"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-22"
+last_action: "2025-05-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/24ca37a3-6bd4-4589-809b-b5e5dfd3b45d"
+source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=5435&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
+source_hash: "e438ad6e520ce7f38a3e43d6b5cee142c01ca984966bd31708e0fa39b9c0eaef"
+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 5435 (2025-2026) — Reorganizing and adding subchapter headings to public employees' collective bargaining statutes.
+
+## 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/5435.htm)
+2. **Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5435.PL.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#8) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#27) — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ramos — primary (person)
+- King — cosponsor (person)
+- Nobles — cosponsor (person)
+- Saldaña — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-22** First reading, referred to Labor & Commerce. `reading-1`
+- **2025-01-27** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Labor & Commerce at 10:30 AM.
+- **2025-01-31** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Labor & Commerce at 8:00 AM.
+- **2025-01-31** LC - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-01-31** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2025-01-31** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2025-02-03** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
+- **2025-02-05** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-12** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-12** Third reading, passed; yeas, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-17** First reading, referred to Labor & Workplace Standards. `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-14** Public hearing in the House Committee on Labor & Workplace Standards at 10:30 AM.
+- **2025-03-21** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Labor & Workplace Standards at 10:30 AM.
+- **2025-03-21** LAWS - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-25** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-10** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-15** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-15** Third reading, passed; yeas, 95; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 3. `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-18** President signed. `passage`
+- **2025-04-18** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2025-04-22** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-16** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2025-05-16** Chapter 290, 2025 Laws. `became-law`
+- **2025-05-16** 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/24ca37a3-6bd4-4589-809b-b5e5dfd3b45d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
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