---
type: "Bill"
title: "Making 2025-2027 fiscal biennium operating appropriations."
description: "Making 2025-2027 fiscal biennium operating appropriations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "SB 5167"
citation: "Washington SB 5167 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robinson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 11
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6cfeb2d7-bb1f-4215-8dc0-270fb33c7fd9"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=5167&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "2ea54a478e5820e88262d8b35f694402462bc655ecade9ca98bbaada89b78407"
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 5167 (2025-2026) — Making 2025-2027 fiscal biennium operating appropriations.

## 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/5167.htm)
2. **Engrossed Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5167-S.E.htm)
3. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5167-S.htm)
4. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5167-S.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#3) — **28–21** (pass) · upper
- Request Conference Committee (#6) — **30–19** (pass) · upper
- Motion to Immediately Transmit to Senate (#3) — **58–39** (pass) · lower
- Final Passage as Amended by the House (#8) — **54–44** (pass) · lower
- 234 Gildon Striker (#2) — **19–30** (fail) · upper
- 924 Couture Pg 308 Ln 30 (#6) — **44–54** (fail) · lower
- 937 Couture Pg 99 Ln 10 (#5) — **44–54** (fail) · lower
- Final Passage as Recommended by Conference Committee (#4) — **28–19** (pass) · upper
- Final Passage as Recommended by the Conference Committee (#2) — **52–45** (pass) · lower
- Adoption as Recommended by the Conference Committee (#1) — **57–39** (pass) · lower
- 930 Couture Pg 389 Ln 5 (#7) — **45–53** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Robinson — primary (person)
- Nobles — cosponsor (person)
- Nobles — cosponsor (person)
- Nobles — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-08** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
- **2025-01-13** First reading, referred to Ways & Means. `reading-1`
- **2025-01-14** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 4:00 PM.
- **2025-03-25** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 4:00 PM.
- **2025-03-27** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 4:00 PM.
- **2025-03-27** WM - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
- **2025-03-27** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-03-28** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2025-03-28** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2025-03-29** 1st substitute bill substituted (WM 25). `substitution`
- **2025-03-29** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
- **2025-03-29** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-29** Third reading, passed; yeas, 28; nays, 21; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-31** Read first time, rules suspended, and placed on second reading calendar. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-31** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
- **2025-03-31** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-31** Third reading, passed; yeas, 54; nays, 44; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-03** Senate refuses to concur in the House amendments.
- **2025-04-03** Conference Requested.
- **2025-04-03** Conference committee appointed. Senators Robinson, Stanford, Gildon.
- **2025-04-21** Conference committee request granted.
- **2025-04-21** Conference committee appointed. Representatives Ormsby, Macri, Couture.
- **2025-04-26** Conference committee report; received 11:01 AM 4/26/2025.
- **2025-04-26** Conference committee report; received 11:15 AM 4/26/2025.
- **2025-04-27** Conference committee report adopted.
- **2025-04-27** Passed final passage as recommended by conference committee; yeas, 52; nays, 45; absent, 0; excused, 1.
- **2025-04-27** Conference committee report adopted.
- **2025-04-27** Passed final passage as recommended by conference committee; yeas, 28; nays, 19; absent, 0; excused, 1.
- **2025-04-27** President signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-27** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-28** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-20** Governor partially vetoed. `executive-veto-line-item`
- **2025-05-20** Chapter 424, 2025 Laws PV. `became-law`
- **2025-05-20** Effective date 5/20/2025*. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6cfeb2d7-bb1f-4215-8dc0-270fb33c7fd9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).