---
type: "Bill"
title: "Improving access to abortion medications."
description: "Improving access to abortion medications."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "SB 5917"
citation: "Washington SB 5917 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bateman"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-12-18"
last_action: "2026-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1e50279c-054a-4175-a644-1dfdf56165f9"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=5917&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "cddb38e7da0694ca2a6bfefe15a1d66e16873b690867936908efa67a55d8c4fd"
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 5917 (2025-2026) — Improving access to abortion medications.

## 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/5917.htm)
2. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5917-S.htm)
3. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5917-S.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#8) — **57–36** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#7) — **32–17** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bateman — primary (person)
- Alvarado — cosponsor (person)
- C. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Cleveland — cosponsor (person)
- Conway — cosponsor (person)
- Frame — cosponsor (person)
- Hasegawa — cosponsor (person)
- Liias — cosponsor (person)
- Nobles — cosponsor (person)
- Orwall — cosponsor (person)
- Pedersen — cosponsor (person)
- Saldaña — cosponsor (person)
- Salomon — cosponsor (person)
- Stanford — cosponsor (person)
- Valdez — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-12-18** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
- **2026-01-12** First reading, referred to Human Services. `reading-1`
- **2026-01-21** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Human Services at 8:00 AM.
- **2026-01-27** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Human Services at 1:30 PM.
- **2026-01-27** HS - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
- **2026-01-27** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2026-01-28** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2026-02-04** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2026-02-10** 1st substitute bill substituted (HS 26). `substitution`
- **2026-02-10** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2026-02-10** Third reading, passed; yeas, 32; nays, 17; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2026-02-12** First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness. `reading-1`
- **2026-02-18** Public hearing in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 1:30 PM.
- **2026-02-20** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 8:00 AM.
- **2026-02-20** HCW - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-20** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2026-02-23** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-25** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2026-02-28** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2026-02-28** Third reading, passed; yeas, 57; nays, 36; absent, 0; excused, 5. `reading-3`
- **2026-03-03** President signed. `passage`
- **2026-03-04** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2026-03-09** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-14** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-14** Chapter 52, 2026 Laws. `became-law`
- **2026-03-14** Effective date 3/14/2026. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1e50279c-054a-4175-a644-1dfdf56165f9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).