---
type: "Bill"
title: "Making 2025-2027 fiscal biennium supplemental operating appropriations."
description: "Making 2025-2027 fiscal biennium supplemental operating appropriations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "SB 5998"
citation: "Washington SB 5998 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robinson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 22
first_action: "2026-01-06"
last_action: "2026-04-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/222b36b3-50a7-48a0-a68c-b0b0a9fbe870"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=5998&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "2a0789e661de40f1d1b73d615ee0580887a0ddec39194b5c65f3b14b3009912f"
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 5998 (2025-2026) — Making 2025-2027 fiscal biennium supplemental operating appropriations.

## 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/5998.htm)
2. **Engrossed Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5998-S.E.htm)
3. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5998-S.htm)
4. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5998-S.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 2109 Rude Pg 400 Ln 31 (#21) — **39–54** (fail) · lower
- 2111 Marshall Pg 137 Ln 21 (#14) — **39–53** (fail) · lower
- 2110 Connors Pg 383 Ln 9 (#18) — **42–50** (fail) · lower
- 2115 Connors Pg 88 Ln 7 (#12) — **40–53** (fail) · lower
- 2089 Marshall Pg 245 Ln 10 (#17) — **41–51** (fail) · lower
- 2104 Valdez Pg 156 Ln 18 (#15) — **41–51** (fail) · lower
- 2112 Walsh Pg 37 Ln 10 (#11) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- 2108 Volz Pg 387 Ln 9 (#20) — **36–57** (fail) · lower
- Final Passage as Recommended by the Conference Committee (#16) — **54–43** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#5) — **30–19** (pass) · upper
- 2116 Couture Pg 88 Ln 7 (#13) — **41–52** (fail) · lower
- 2106 McEntire Pg 387 Ln 9 (#19) — **38–55** (fail) · lower
- 2114 Rude Pg 400 Ln 33 (#22) — **41–52** (fail) · lower
- Final Passage as Amended by the House (#24) — **52–41** (pass) · lower
- 2107 Burnett Pg 168 Ln 8 (#16) — **41–51** (fail) · lower
- 2105 Penner Pg 7 Ln 26 (#9) — **44–49** (fail) · lower
- 787 Torres Pg 281 Ln 21 (#4) — **21–28** (fail) · upper
- 2102 Griffey Pg 12 Ln 4 (#10) — **39–54** (fail) · lower
- Final Passage as Recommended by Conference Committee (#17) — **28–21** (pass) · upper
- 2103 Keaton Pg 479 Ln 36 (#23) — **36–57** (fail) · lower
- 773 Gildon Pg 81 Ln 7 (#2) — **19–30** (fail) · upper
- 777 Gildon Pg 89 Ln 2 (#3) — **22–27** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Robinson — primary (person)
- Nobles — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-06** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
- **2026-01-12** First reading, referred to Ways & Means. `reading-1`
- **2026-01-13** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 4:00 PM.
- **2026-02-23** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 4:00 PM.
- **2026-02-25** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 1:30 PM.
- **2026-02-25** WM - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
- **2026-02-25** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2026-02-25** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2026-02-26** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2026-02-27** 1st substitute bill substituted (WM 26). `substitution`
- **2026-02-27** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
- **2026-02-27** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2026-02-27** Third reading, passed; yeas, 30; nays, 19; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2026-02-27** Read first time, rules suspended, and placed on second reading calendar. `reading-1`
- **2026-02-28** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
- **2026-02-28** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2026-02-28** Third reading, passed; yeas, 52; nays, 41; absent, 0; excused, 5. `reading-3`
- **2026-03-03** Senate refuses to concur in House amendments. Asks House for conference thereon.
- **2026-03-03** Conference committee appointed. Senators Robinson, Stanford, Gildon.
- **2026-03-09** Conference committee request granted.
- **2026-03-09** Conference committee appointed. Representatives Ormsby, Gregerson, Couture.
- **2026-03-11** Conference committee report; received 10:57 AM 3/11/2026.
- **2026-03-11** Conference committee report; received 11:20 AM 3/11/2026.
- **2026-03-12** Conference committee report adopted.
- **2026-03-12** Passed final passage as recommended by conference committee; yeas, 54; nays, 43; absent, 0; excused, 1.
- **2026-03-12** Conference committee report adopted.
- **2026-03-12** Passed final passage as recommended by conference committee; yeas, 28; nays, 21; absent, 0; excused, 0.
- **2026-03-12** President signed. `passage`
- **2026-03-12** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2026-03-13** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-01** Governor partially vetoed. `executive-veto-line-item`
- **2026-04-01** Chapter 268, 2026 Laws PV. `became-law`
- **2026-04-01** Effective date 4/1/2026. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/222b36b3-50a7-48a0-a68c-b0b0a9fbe870`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).