---
type: "Bill"
title: "Allowing animal care and control agencies and nonprofit humane societies to provide additional veterinary services to low-income households."
description: "Allowing animal care and control agencies and nonprofit humane societies to provide additional veterinary services to low-income households."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "SB 5004"
citation: "Washington SB 5004 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["VETERINARIANS", "LOW-INCOME PERSONS", "ANIMALS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cleveland"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 29
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-12-03"
last_action: "2019-04-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/275cbd3d-e0a2-453f-b579-ef40d66d4f2b"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=5004&year=2019"
source_hash: "24400969767deeaacef49e81d7567ba81528b3973ae95e96172e10a1418a41be"
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 5004 (2019-2020) — Allowing animal care and control agencies and nonprofit humane societies to provide additional veterinary services to low-income households.

## 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/2019-20/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5004.htm)
2. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2019-20/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5004-S.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#21) — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- Final Passage (#20) — **77–18** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cleveland — primary (person)
- Conway — cosponsor (person)
- Fortunato — cosponsor (person)
- Frockt — cosponsor (person)
- Kuderer — cosponsor (person)
- Palumbo — cosponsor (person)
- Rivers — cosponsor (person)
- Rolfes — cosponsor (person)
- Saldaña — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-12-03** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
- **2019-01-14** First reading, referred to Health & Long Term Care. `reading-1`
- **2019-02-08** HLTC - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `passage`
- **2019-02-11** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2019-02-19** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2019-02-25** 1st substitute bill substituted. `substitution`
- **2019-02-08** HLTC - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `passage`
- **2019-02-11** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2019-02-19** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2019-02-25** 1st substitute bill substituted. `substitution`
- **2019-02-25** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2019-02-25** Third reading, passed; yeas, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2019-02-26** First reading, referred to Rural Development, Agriculture, & Natural Resources. `reading-1`
- **2019-04-02** RDAN - Majority; do pass.
- **2019-04-02** Minority; do not pass.
- **2019-04-03** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
- **2019-04-08** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading.
- **2019-04-12** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2019-04-12** Third reading, passed; yeas, 77; nays, 18; absent, 0; excused, 3. `reading-3`
- **2019-04-15** President signed. `passage`
- **2019-04-18** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2019-04-22** Delivered to Governor.
- **2019-04-26** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-26** Chapter 142, 2019 Laws. `became-law`
- **2019-04-26** Effective date 7/28/2019. `became-law`
- **2019-02-06T18:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Health & Long Term Care at 01:30 PM
- **2019-02-08T13:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Health & Long Term Care at 08:00 AM
- **2019-04-02T14:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Rural Development, Agriculture, & Natural Resources at 10:00 AM
- **2019-03-15T14:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Rural Development, Agriculture, & Natural Resources at 10:00 AM

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/275cbd3d-e0a2-453f-b579-ef40d66d4f2b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).