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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Providing equity in eligibility for the college bound scholarship."
+description: "Providing equity in eligibility for the college bound scholarship."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "SB 5543"
+citation: "Washington SB 5543 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Boehnke"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 35
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-28"
+last_action: "2025-05-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5c13aaa8-891f-4fab-ba0c-e26064bdbc17"
+source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=5543&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
+source_hash: "522f6c1ab7a0666f8f76bfa3315c0fa1b27cb2c656af1a31c1606f2a212fd90e"
+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 5543 (2025-2026) — Providing equity in eligibility for the college bound scholarship.
+
+## 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/5543.htm)
+2. **Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5543.PL.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#11) — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#34) — **89–5** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Boehnke — primary (person)
+- C. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+- Hasegawa — cosponsor (person)
+- Nobles — cosponsor (person)
+- Ramos — cosponsor (person)
+- Slatter — cosponsor (person)
+- Valdez — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-28** First reading, referred to Higher Education & Workforce Development. `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-06** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Higher Education & Workforce Development at 1:30 PM.
+- **2025-02-10** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Higher Education & Workforce Development at 10:30 AM.
+- **2025-02-10** HEWD - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-10** And refer to Ways & Means. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-11** Referred to Ways & Means. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-17** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 4:00 PM.
+- **2025-02-28** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 1:30 PM.
+- **2025-02-28** WM - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-28** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
+- **2025-03-05** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-07** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-07** Third reading, passed; yeas, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-09** First reading, referred to Postsecondary Education & Workforce. `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-18** Public hearing in the House Committee on Postsecondary Education & Workforce at 1:30 PM.
+- **2025-03-26** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Postsecondary Education & Workforce at 1:30 PM.
+- **2025-03-26** PEW - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-26** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2025-03-26** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2025-03-28** Referred to Appropriations. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-04** 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`
+- **2025-04-05** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2025-04-05** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **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`
+- **2025-04-10** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-10** Third reading, passed; yeas, 89; nays, 5; 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`
+- **2025-05-15** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2025-05-15** Chapter 288, 2025 Laws. `became-law`
+- **2025-05-15** 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/5c13aaa8-891f-4fab-ba0c-e26064bdbc17`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
+