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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Modifying funding for the passport to careers program and eligibility for the Washington college grant."
+description: "Modifying funding for the passport to careers program and eligibility for the Washington college grant."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "SB 5963"
+citation: "Washington SB 5963 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Nobles"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2026-01-05"
+last_action: "2026-03-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b6fee81c-133d-4335-9340-974754ff7912"
+source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=5963&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
+source_hash: "a73870a81819911e5d79bd34fb95c2151c73c4aba601bbde8d4f76199cfd6b11"
+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 5963 (2025-2026) — Modifying funding for the passport to careers program and eligibility for the Washington college grant.
+
+## 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/5963.htm)
+2. **Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5963.PL.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#28) — **92–1** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#12) — **48–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Nobles — primary (person)
+- C. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+- Chapman — cosponsor (person)
+- Hasegawa — cosponsor (person)
+- Saldaña — cosponsor (person)
+- Shewmake — cosponsor (person)
+- Valdez — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-05** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
+- **2026-01-12** First reading, referred to Higher Education & Workforce Development. `reading-1`
+- **2026-01-19** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Higher Education & Workforce Development at 10:30 AM.
+- **2026-01-22** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Higher Education & Workforce Development at 1:30 PM.
+- **2026-01-22** HEWD - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-01-22** And refer to Ways & Means. `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-23** Referred to Ways & Means. `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-03** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 4:00 PM.
+- **2026-02-09** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 10:30 AM.
+- **2026-02-09** WM - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-02-09** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
+- **2026-02-12** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-13** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-13** Third reading, passed; yeas, 48; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-17** First reading, referred to Postsecondary Education & Workforce. `reading-1`
+- **2026-02-18** Public hearing in the House Committee on Postsecondary Education & Workforce at 1:30 PM.
+- **2026-02-24** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Postsecondary Education & Workforce at 1:30 PM.
+- **2026-02-24** PEW - Majority; do pass. `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** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-03** Third reading, passed; yeas, 92; nays, 1; absent, 0; excused, 5. `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-04** President signed. `passage`
+- **2026-03-05** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2026-03-09** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-03-14** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2026-03-14** Chapter 44, 2026 Laws. `became-law`
+- **2026-03-14** 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/b6fee81c-133d-4335-9340-974754ff7912`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
+