---
type: "Bill"
title: "Ensuring patient choice and access to care by prohibiting unfair and deceptive dental insurance practices."
description: "Ensuring patient choice and access to care by prohibiting unfair and deceptive dental insurance practices."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "SB 5351"
citation: "Washington SB 5351 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["King"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 28
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-17"
last_action: "2025-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/20718a5b-8b1b-4d26-ab60-9ac4c2dbeead"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=5351&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "9e8f5888d8f3f4840ed84d8b90c9abfa6fb2dd64f24689ccbd83caf9c87e10fe"
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 5351 (2025-2026) — Ensuring patient choice and access to care by prohibiting unfair and deceptive dental insurance practices.

## 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/5351.htm)
2. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5351-S.htm)
3. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5351-S.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#5) — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#17) — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- King — primary (person)
- Chapman — cosponsor (person)
- Christian — cosponsor (person)
- Cleveland — cosponsor (person)
- Conway — cosponsor (person)
- Frame — cosponsor (person)
- Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Hasegawa — cosponsor (person)
- Holy — cosponsor (person)
- Muzzall — cosponsor (person)
- Nobles — cosponsor (person)
- Orwall — cosponsor (person)
- Salomon — cosponsor (person)
- Shewmake — cosponsor (person)
- Trudeau — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-17** First reading, referred to Health & Long-Term Care. `reading-1`
- **2025-01-30** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Health & Long-Term Care at 8:00 AM.
- **2025-02-21** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Health & Long-Term Care at 8:00 AM.
- **2025-02-21** HLTC - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
- **2025-02-21** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-02-21** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2025-03-03** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2025-03-10** 1st substitute bill substituted (HLTC 25). `substitution`
- **2025-03-10** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-10** Third reading, passed; yeas, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-12** First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-19** Public hearing in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-03-25** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-03-25** HCW - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Referred to Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-04-05** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Appropriations at 9:00 AM.
- **2025-04-05** APP - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-08** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2025-04-11** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11** Third reading, passed; yeas, 94; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 4. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-16** President signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-18** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-22** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-12** Governor partially vetoed. `executive-veto-line-item`
- **2025-05-12** Chapter 219, 2025 Laws PV. `became-law`
- **2025-05-12** 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/20718a5b-8b1b-4d26-ab60-9ac4c2dbeead`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).