---
type: "Bill"
title: "Strengthening Washington's leadership and accountability on climate policy by transitioning to annual reporting of statewide emissions data."
description: "Strengthening Washington's leadership and accountability on climate policy by transitioning to annual reporting of statewide emissions data."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "SB 5036"
citation: "Washington SB 5036 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Boehnke"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 37
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-12-13"
last_action: "2025-05-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5238476e-11d3-44f5-aa10-9f2ab9fdc9a1"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=5036&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "47918db6e0fdc4962ad0078440d9c00013597475de15456cbb72597ed64ae7a4"
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 5036 (2025-2026) — Strengthening Washington's leadership and accountability on climate policy by transitioning to annual reporting of statewide emissions data.

## 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/5036.htm)
2. **Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5036.PL.htm)

## Votes

- Final Passage as Amended by the House (#18) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- Final Passage as Amended by the House (#3) — **30–19** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#15) — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Boehnke — primary (person)
- Chapman — cosponsor (person)
- Dozier — cosponsor (person)
- Fortunato — cosponsor (person)
- Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Hasegawa — cosponsor (person)
- Short — cosponsor (person)
- Wellman — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-13** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
- **2025-01-13** First reading, referred to Environment, Energy & Technology. `reading-1`
- **2025-01-24** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Environment, Energy & Technology at 10:30 AM.
- **2025-02-07** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Environment, Energy & Technology at 10:30 AM.
- **2025-02-07** ENET - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-07** And refer to Ways & Means. `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10** Referred to Ways & Means. `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-18** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 4:00 PM.
- **2025-02-27** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-02-27** WM - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-27** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-02-28** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2025-03-05** 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, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-13** First reading, referred to Environment & Energy. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-20** Public hearing in the House Committee on Environment & Energy at 8:30 AM.
- **2025-03-31** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Environment & Energy at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-03-31** ENVI - Majority; do pass with amendment(s). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-31** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-04-02** Referred to Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-05** Public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 9:00 AM.
- **2025-04-08** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Appropriations at 10:30 AM.
- **2025-04-08** APP - Majority; do pass with amendment(s) by Environment & Energy. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-08** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10** Committee amendment(s) adopted with no other amendments.
- **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`
- **2025-04-17** Senate concurred in House amendments.
- **2025-04-17** Passed final passage; yeas, 30; nays, 19; absent, 0; excused, 0. `passage`
- **2025-04-19** President signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-22** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-23** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-02** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-02** Chapter 195, 2025 Laws. `became-law`
- **2025-05-02** 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/5238476e-11d3-44f5-aa10-9f2ab9fdc9a1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).