---
type: "Bill"
title: "Protecting the rights of workers to refrain from attending meetings or listening to their employer's speech on political or religious matters."
description: "Protecting the rights of workers to refrain from attending meetings or listening to their employer's speech on political or religious matters."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "SB 5778"
citation: "Washington SB 5778 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Keiser"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-12-04"
last_action: "2024-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/58678937-e2d4-41e7-be02-8cb3509529f9"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=5778&year=2023"
source_hash: "2cf3cc489d65cfbc6974f1ba44b54da56e55787e3891f023ab111b786a7fe733"
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 5778 (2023-2024) — Protecting the rights of workers to refrain from attending meetings or listening to their employer's speech on political or religious matters.

## 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/2023-24/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5778.htm)
2. **Engrossed Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5778-S.E.htm)
3. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5778-S.htm)
4. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5778-S.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#25) — **28–20** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#4) — **55–41** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Keiser — primary (person)
- C. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Cleveland — cosponsor (person)
- Conway — cosponsor (person)
- Dhingra — cosponsor (person)
- Frame — cosponsor (person)
- Hasegawa — cosponsor (person)
- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- Kauffman — cosponsor (person)
- Kuderer — cosponsor (person)
- Liias — cosponsor (person)
- Lovelett — cosponsor (person)
- Lovick — cosponsor (person)
- Nguyen — cosponsor (person)
- Nobles — cosponsor (person)
- Randall — cosponsor (person)
- Salomon — cosponsor (person)
- Shewmake — cosponsor (person)
- Stanford — cosponsor (person)
- Trudeau — cosponsor (person)
- Valdez — cosponsor (person)
- Van De Wege — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-12-04** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
- **2024-01-08** First reading, referred to Labor & Commerce. `reading-1`
- **2024-01-11** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Labor & Commerce at 8:00 AM.
- **2024-01-16** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Labor & Commerce at 10:30 AM.
- **2024-01-16** LC - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
- **2024-01-16** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2024-01-18** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2024-01-24** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2024-02-07** 1st substitute bill substituted (LC 24). `substitution`
- **2024-02-07** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
- **2024-02-07** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-02-07** Third reading, passed; yeas, 28; nays, 20; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2024-02-09** First reading, referred to Labor & Workplace Standards. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-16** Public hearing in the House Committee on Labor & Workplace Standards at 10:30 AM.
- **2024-02-20** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Labor & Workplace Standards at 10:30 AM.
- **2024-02-20** LAWS - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-21** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2024-02-29** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-02-29** Third reading, passed; yeas, 55; nays, 41; absent, 0; excused, 2. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-05** President signed. `passage`
- **2024-03-06** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2024-03-08** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-28** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-28** Chapter 357, 2024 Laws. `became-law`
- **2024-03-28** Effective date 6/6/2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/58678937-e2d4-41e7-be02-8cb3509529f9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).