---
type: "Bill"
title: "Concerning the Washington saves administrative trust account."
description: "Concerning the Washington saves administrative trust account."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "SB 5616"
citation: "Washington SB 5616 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hasegawa"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-31"
last_action: "2025-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ffbef470-3bc2-424a-939a-c57fffb25b36"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=5616&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "638ccf00406cc9657438418022360c5712a27c2d96cad9cb9555d9ebbadd7ea1"
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 5616 (2025-2026) — Concerning the Washington saves administrative trust account.

## 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/5616.htm)
2. **Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5616.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#18) — **47–1** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#2) — **94–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hasegawa — primary (person)
- Nobles — cosponsor (person)
- Stanford — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-31** First reading, referred to Ways & Means. `reading-1`
- **2025-02-13** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 4:00 PM.
- **2025-02-28** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-02-28** WM - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-28** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2025-03-07** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2025-03-11** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-11** Third reading, passed; yeas, 47; nays, 1; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-13** First reading, referred to Appropriations. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-19** Public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 4:00 PM.
- **2025-03-24** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Appropriations at 4:00 PM.
- **2025-03-24** APP - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2025-04-14** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-14** Third reading, passed; yeas, 94; nays, 2; 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`
- **2025-04-30** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-30** Chapter 190, 2025 Laws. `became-law`
- **2025-04-30** 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/ffbef470-3bc2-424a-939a-c57fffb25b36`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).