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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Ensuring access to voting services for military, overseas, Native American, and disabled voters."
+description: "Ensuring access to voting services for military, overseas, Native American, and disabled voters."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "SB 6035"
+citation: "Washington SB 6035 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Kauffman"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 36
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2026-01-08"
+last_action: "2026-03-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/79e61d79-2128-43ad-8773-b75e2c8997a4"
+source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=6035&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
+source_hash: "b88a4b138b214152db0f4bb35e289871b42be8008697926c8989bf0b515eecb5"
+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 6035 (2025-2026) — Ensuring access to voting services for military, overseas, Native American, and disabled voters.
+
+## 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/6035.htm)
+2. **Second Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/6035-S2.htm)
+3. **Second Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/6035-S2.PL.htm)
+4. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/6035-S.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Final Passage as Amended by the House (#11) — **29–19** (pass) · upper
+- Final Passage as Amended by the House (#4) — **57–36** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#14) — **30–19** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Kauffman — primary (person)
+- Frame — cosponsor (person)
+- Liias — cosponsor (person)
+- Nobles — cosponsor (person)
+- Riccelli — cosponsor (person)
+- Slatter — cosponsor (person)
+- Stanford — cosponsor (person)
+- Trudeau — cosponsor (person)
+- Valdez — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-08** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
+- **2026-01-12** First reading, referred to State Government, Tribal Affairs & Elections. `reading-1`
+- **2026-01-20** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on State Government, Tribal Affairs & Elections at 1:30 PM.
+- **2026-01-23** Executive session scheduled, but no action was taken in the Senate Committee on State Government, Tribal Affairs & Elections at 10:30 AM.
+- **2026-01-30** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on State Government, Tribal Affairs & Elections at 10:30 AM.
+- **2026-01-30** SGTE - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
+- **2026-01-30** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2026-01-30** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2026-02-02** On motion, referred to Ways & Means.
+- **2026-02-05** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 1:30 PM.
+- **2026-02-09** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 10:30 AM.
+- **2026-02-09** WM - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
+- **2026-02-09** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2026-02-09** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
+- **2026-02-10** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-12** 2nd substitute bill substituted (WM 26). `substitution`
+- **2026-02-12** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-12** Third reading, passed; yeas, 30; nays, 19; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-14** First reading, referred to State Government & Tribal Relations. `reading-1`
+- **2026-02-20** Public hearing in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations at 8:00 AM.
+- **2026-02-24** Executive action taken in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations at 1:30 PM.
+- **2026-02-24** SGOV - Majority; do pass with amendment(s). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-02-24** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **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** Committee amendment(s) adopted with no other amendments.
+- **2026-03-03** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-03** Third reading, passed; yeas, 57; nays, 36; absent, 0; excused, 5. `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-10** Senate concurred in House amendments.
+- **2026-03-10** Passed final passage; yeas, 29; nays, 19; absent, 0; excused, 1. `passage`
+- **2026-03-11** President signed. `passage`
+- **2026-03-11** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2026-03-12** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-03-25** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2026-03-25** Chapter 214, 2026 Laws. `became-law`
+- **2026-03-25** 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/79e61d79-2128-43ad-8773-b75e2c8997a4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
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