---
type: "Bill"
title: "Prohibiting health carriers, facilities, and providers from making any public statements of any potential or planned contract terminations unless it satisfies a legal obligation."
description: "Prohibiting health carriers, facilities, and providers from making any public statements of any potential or planned contract terminations unless it satisfies a legal obligation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "SB 5579"
citation: "Washington SB 5579 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cleveland"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 27
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-30"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1922195a-c51c-4609-b0b5-79e98a710af4"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=5579&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "aff316742777ae53ef893a38a5e202b8d4690170b84622cc86a132af8870d651"
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 5579 (2025-2026) — Prohibiting health carriers, facilities, and providers from making any public statements of any potential or planned contract terminations unless it satisfies a legal obligation.

## 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/5579.htm)
2. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5579-S.htm)
3. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5579-S.PL.htm)

## Votes

- Final Passage as Amended by the House (#6) — **47–1** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#13) — **48–1** (pass) · upper
- Final Passage as Amended by the House (#3) — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cleveland — primary (person)
- Muzzall — cosponsor (person)
- Valdez — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-30** First reading, referred to Health & Long-Term Care. `reading-1`
- **2025-02-04** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Health & Long-Term Care at 10:30 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** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2025-03-05** 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, 48; nays, 1; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-12** First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-26** Public hearing in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-04-01** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-04-01** HCW - Majority; do pass with amendment(s). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10** Committee amendment(s) adopted as amended.
- **2025-04-10** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-10** Third reading, passed; yeas, 95; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 3. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-21** Senate concurred in House amendments.
- **2025-04-21** Passed final passage; yeas, 47; nays, 1; absent, 0; excused, 0. `passage`
- **2025-04-22** President signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-23** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-24** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-20** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-20** Chapter 389, 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/1922195a-c51c-4609-b0b5-79e98a710af4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).