---
type: "Bill"
title: "Ensuring access to primary care, behavioral health, and affordable hospital services."
description: "Ensuring access to primary care, behavioral health, and affordable hospital services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "SB 5083"
citation: "Washington SB 5083 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robinson"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 39
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-12-19"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8d63944e-6093-42f9-9c1f-7232dacac2e1"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=5083&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "1ebcd7c19096291cbd024a2795b3aed91d0638d39762a70c43cf1922ddb7a275"
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 5083 (2025-2026) — Ensuring access to primary care, behavioral health, and affordable hospital services.

## 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/5083.htm)
2. **Engrossed Second Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5083-S2.E.htm)
3. **Second Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5083-S2.htm)
4. **Second Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5083-S2.PL.htm)
5. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5083-S.htm)

## Votes

- Final Passage as Amended by the House (#9) — **57–39** (pass) · lower
- Final Passage as Amended by the House (#2) — **29–19** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#6) — **30–19** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Robinson — primary (person)
- Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Liias — cosponsor (person)
- Nobles — cosponsor (person)
- Salomon — cosponsor (person)
- Valdez — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-19** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
- **2025-01-13** First reading, referred to Health & Long-Term Care. `reading-1`
- **2025-01-31** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Health & Long-Term Care at 8:00 AM.
- **2025-02-11** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Health & Long-Term Care at 10:30 AM.
- **2025-02-11** HLTC - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
- **2025-02-11** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-02-11** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-02-11** And refer to Ways & Means. `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Referred to Ways & Means. `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-20** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 4:00 PM.
- **2025-02-27** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-02-27** WM - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
- **2025-02-27** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-02-27** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-02-28** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2025-03-07** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2025-03-11** 2nd substitute bill substituted (WM 25). `substitution`
- **2025-03-11** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
- **2025-03-11** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-11** Third reading, passed; yeas, 30; nays, 19; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-13** First reading, referred to Appropriations. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-19** Public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 4:00 PM.
- **2025-03-24** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Appropriations at 4:00 PM.
- **2025-03-24** APP - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-24** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-03-24** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-03-27** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-22** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2025-04-22** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
- **2025-04-22** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-22** Third reading, passed; yeas, 57; nays, 39; absent, 0; excused, 2. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-24** Senate concurred in House amendments.
- **2025-04-24** Passed final passage; yeas, 29; nays, 19; absent, 0; excused, 0. `passage`
- **2025-04-25** President signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-26** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-27** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-20** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-20** Chapter 373, 2025 Laws. `became-law`
- **2025-05-20** 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/8d63944e-6093-42f9-9c1f-7232dacac2e1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).