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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Updating provisions for consumer-owned utilities, including port districts, and affected market customers under the clean energy transformation act."
+description: "Updating provisions for consumer-owned utilities, including port districts, and affected market customers under the clean energy transformation act."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "SB 5982"
+citation: "Washington SB 5982 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hunt"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 31
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2026-01-06"
+last_action: "2026-03-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/65fa18b3-3944-4920-8fe3-03b8bae043ec"
+source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=5982&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
+source_hash: "b0feb32cfd765efa866da68cc4bfc972020dda94affe0f1293d6b618157a170d"
+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 5982 (2025-2026) — Updating provisions for consumer-owned utilities, including port districts, and affected market customers under the clean energy transformation act.
+
+## 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/5982.htm)
+2. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5982-S.htm)
+3. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5982-S.PL.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Final Passage as Amended by the House (#4) — **57–37** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#41) — **30–19** (pass) · upper
+- Final Passage as Amended by the House (#5) — **30–19** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hunt — primary (person)
+- Liias — cosponsor (person)
+- Nobles — cosponsor (person)
+- Shewmake — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-06** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
+- **2026-01-12** First reading, referred to Environment, Energy & Technology. `reading-1`
+- **2026-01-13** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Environment, Energy & Technology at 1:30 PM.
+- **2026-01-23** Executive session scheduled, but no action was taken in the Senate Committee on Environment, Energy & Technology at 10:30 AM.
+- **2026-01-30** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Environment, Energy & Technology at 10:30 AM.
+- **2026-01-30** ENET - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
+- **2026-01-30** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2026-02-02** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
+- **2026-02-10** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-11** 1st substitute bill substituted (ENET 26). `substitution`
+- **2026-02-11** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-11** Third reading, passed; yeas, 30; nays, 19; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-14** First reading, referred to Environment & Energy. `reading-1`
+- **2026-02-18** Public hearing in the House Committee on Environment & Energy at 10:30 AM.
+- **2026-02-19** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Environment & Energy at 8:00 AM.
+- **2026-02-19** ENVI - Majority; do pass with amendment(s). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-02-19** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2026-02-19** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2026-02-23** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-25** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-28** Committee amendment(s) adopted as amended.
+- **2026-02-28** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-28** Third reading, passed; yeas, 57; nays, 37; absent, 0; excused, 4. `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-10** Senate concurred in House amendments.
+- **2026-03-10** Passed final passage; yeas, 30; nays, 19; absent, 0; excused, 0. `passage`
+- **2026-03-11** President signed. `passage`
+- **2026-03-11** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2026-03-12** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-03-24** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2026-03-24** Chapter 181, 2026 Laws. `became-law`
+- **2026-03-24** 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/65fa18b3-3944-4920-8fe3-03b8bae043ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
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