---
type: "Bill"
title: "Enacting the uniform custodial trust act."
description: "Enacting the uniform custodial trust act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "SB 5037"
citation: "Washington SB 5037 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Holy"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-12-13"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0ab20d81-6c21-4818-99be-d7af86bd788d"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=5037&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "d44c1b082bb0d052567ed764f37558c3e1655ffc536cdabe29a0e780f4ad1792"
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 5037 (2025-2026) — Enacting the uniform custodial trust act.

## 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/5037.htm)
2. **Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5037.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#14) — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#23) — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Holy — primary (person)
- Dhingra — cosponsor (person)
- Nobles — cosponsor (person)
- Pedersen — cosponsor (person)
- Shewmake — 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 Law & Justice. `reading-1`
- **2025-01-16** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Law & Justice at 10:30 AM.
- **2025-01-23** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Law & Justice at 10:30 AM.
- **2025-01-23** LAW - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-24** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2025-01-29** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2025-02-05** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-02-05** Third reading, passed; yeas, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2025-02-07** First reading, referred to Civil Rights & Judiciary. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-18** Public hearing in the House Committee on Civil Rights & Judiciary at 10:30 AM.
- **2025-03-21** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Civil Rights & Judiciary at 10:30 AM.
- **2025-03-21** CRJ - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-25** 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** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-10** Third reading, passed; yeas, 95; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 3. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-15** President signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-16** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-17** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-22** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-22** Chapter 111, 2025 Laws. `became-law`
- **2025-04-22** 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/0ab20d81-6c21-4818-99be-d7af86bd788d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).