---
type: "Bill"
title: "Codifying emergency rules to protect the right of a pregnant person to access treatment for emergency medical conditions in hospital emergency departments."
description: "Codifying emergency rules to protect the right of a pregnant person to access treatment for emergency medical conditions in hospital emergency departments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "SB 5557"
citation: "Washington SB 5557 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Krishnadasan"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 29
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-28"
last_action: "2025-04-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a82e3977-6d5e-426a-bfe9-366848c9339f"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=5557&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "ef7d7008050a4e51b67c609d179244071d59d66a30f2ad3111228080ed9a3d79"
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 5557 (2025-2026) — Codifying emergency rules to protect the right of a pregnant person to access treatment for emergency medical conditions in hospital emergency departments.

## 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/5557.htm)
2. **Engrossed Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5557-S.E.htm)
3. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5557-S.htm)
4. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5557-S.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#15) — **30–19** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#2) — **84–12** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Krishnadasan — primary (person)
- C. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Cortes — cosponsor (person)
- Dhingra — cosponsor (person)
- Frame — cosponsor (person)
- Hasegawa — cosponsor (person)
- Kauffman — cosponsor (person)
- Liias — cosponsor (person)
- Lovelett — cosponsor (person)
- Nobles — cosponsor (person)
- Orwall — cosponsor (person)
- Pedersen — cosponsor (person)
- Saldaña — cosponsor (person)
- Slatter — cosponsor (person)
- Stanford — cosponsor (person)
- Trudeau — cosponsor (person)
- Valdez — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-28** First reading, referred to Health & Long-Term Care. `reading-1`
- **2025-02-07** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Health & Long-Term Care at 8:00 AM.
- **2025-02-20** Executive session scheduled, but no action was taken 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; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **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`
- **2025-03-05** 1st substitute bill substituted (HLTC 25). `substitution`
- **2025-03-05** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
- **2025-03-05** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-05** Third reading, passed; yeas, 30; nays, 19; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-07** 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.
- **2025-03-26** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-03-26** HCW - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-26** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-03-26** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-03-28** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** 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, 84; nays, 12; absent, 0; excused, 2. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-18** President signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-18** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-22** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-29** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-29** Chapter 182, 2025 Laws. `became-law`
- **2025-04-29** Effective date 4/29/2025. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a82e3977-6d5e-426a-bfe9-366848c9339f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).