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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Encouraging public school instruction in awareness of blood donation."
+description: "Encouraging public school instruction in awareness of blood donation."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "SB 5641"
+citation: "Washington SB 5641 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Harris"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-02-03"
+last_action: "2025-04-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6a15941d-d868-44e0-a9b3-349d822a30e8"
+source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=5641&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
+source_hash: "f6c001414502370938c81601f7edc581a05d7925d3f341d352e5475a05cc1aa9"
+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 5641 (2025-2026) — Encouraging public school instruction in awareness of blood donation.
+
+## 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/5641.htm)
+2. **Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5641.PL.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#7) — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#22) — **95–2** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Harris — primary (person)
+- Dozier — cosponsor (person)
+- Riccelli — cosponsor (person)
+- Short — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-03** First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education. `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-11** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education at 8:00 AM.
+- **2025-02-18** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education at 8:00 AM.
+- **2025-02-18** EDU - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-19** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
+- **2025-03-03** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-05** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-05** Third reading, passed; yeas, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-07** First reading, referred to Education. `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-18** Public hearing in the House Committee on Education at 4:00 PM.
+- **2025-03-27** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Education at 8:00 AM.
+- **2025-03-27** ED - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-27** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2025-03-28** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-08** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-09** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-09** Third reading, passed; yeas, 95; nays, 2; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-14** President signed. `passage`
+- **2025-04-15** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2025-04-17** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-22** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-22** Chapter 149, 2025 Laws. `became-law`
+- **2025-04-22** 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/6a15941d-d868-44e0-a9b3-349d822a30e8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
+