---
type: "Bill"
title: "Concerning medicaid coverage for HIV antiviral drugs."
description: "Concerning medicaid coverage for HIV antiviral drugs."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "SB 5577"
citation: "Washington SB 5577 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Liias"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-29"
last_action: "2025-04-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a2971db4-cbfe-452c-a34e-2ef02e403c34"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=5577&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "d2c8e028a73d71e1c72173038c727da8cc802dd56f6d356b60e0ad8203e554b3"
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 5577 (2025-2026) — Concerning medicaid coverage for HIV antiviral drugs.

## 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/5577.htm)
2. **Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5577.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#12) — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#2) — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Liias — primary (person)
- Braun — cosponsor (person)
- C. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Cleveland — cosponsor (person)
- Dhingra — cosponsor (person)
- Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Hasegawa — cosponsor (person)
- Holy — cosponsor (person)
- Kauffman — cosponsor (person)
- Lovelett — cosponsor (person)
- Nobles — cosponsor (person)
- Pedersen — cosponsor (person)
- Riccelli — cosponsor (person)
- Shewmake — cosponsor (person)
- Short — cosponsor (person)
- Stanford — cosponsor (person)
- Valdez — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-29** First reading, referred to Health & Long-Term Care. `reading-1`
- **2025-02-11** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Health & Long-Term Care at 10:30 AM.
- **2025-02-13** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Health & Long-Term Care at 8:00 AM.
- **2025-02-13** HLTC - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-14** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2025-02-19** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2025-02-28** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-02-28** Third reading, passed; yeas, 48; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-04** First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-14** Public hearing in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 8:00 AM.
- **2025-03-19** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-03-19** HCW - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-21** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-25** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2025-03-27** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-27** Third reading, passed; yeas, 94; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 4. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-28** President signed. `passage`
- **2025-03-31** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-01** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-04** Governor partially vetoed. `executive-veto-line-item`
- **2025-04-04** Chapter 11, 2025 Laws PV. `became-law`
- **2025-04-04** 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/a2971db4-cbfe-452c-a34e-2ef02e403c34`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).