---
type: "Bill"
title: "Expanding access to leave and safety accommodations to include workers who are victims of hate crimes or bias incidents."
description: "Expanding access to leave and safety accommodations to include workers who are victims of hate crimes or bias incidents."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "SB 5101"
citation: "Washington SB 5101 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Valdez"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 31
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-12-23"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/04ccd3c9-a354-47d7-bd95-95b1ea6b1c22"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=5101&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "7364aff596368c8fca558be1747f261fc13b4dc6049e0103400e4b0c3a542449"
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 5101 (2025-2026) — Expanding access to leave and safety accommodations to include workers who are victims of hate crimes or bias incidents.

## 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/5101.htm)
2. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5101-S.htm)
3. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5101-S.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#15) — **40–8** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#22) — **59–38** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Valdez — primary (person)
- C. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Frame — cosponsor (person)
- Hansen — 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)
- Wellman — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-23** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
- **2025-01-13** First reading, referred to Labor & Commerce. `reading-1`
- **2025-01-21** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Labor & Commerce at 10:30 AM.
- **2025-01-31** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Labor & Commerce at 8:00 AM.
- **2025-01-31** LC - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
- **2025-01-31** And refer to Ways & Means. `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-31** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-01-31** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-02-03** Referred to Ways & Means. `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-20** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 4:00 PM.
- **2025-02-20** WM - Majority; without recommendation.
- **2025-02-21** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2025-02-26** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2025-02-28** 1st substitute bill substituted (LC 25). `substitution`
- **2025-02-28** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-02-28** Third reading, passed; yeas, 40; nays, 8; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-04** First reading, referred to Labor & Workplace Standards. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-21** Public hearing in the House Committee on Labor & Workplace Standards at 10:30 AM.
- **2025-03-26** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Labor & Workplace Standards at 8:00 AM.
- **2025-03-26** LAWS - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-26** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-03-27** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-14** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2025-04-15** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-15** Third reading, passed; yeas, 59; nays, 38; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-18** President signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-18** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-22** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-20** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-20** Chapter 375, 2025 Laws. `became-law`
- **2025-05-20** Effective date 1/1/2026. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/04ccd3c9-a354-47d7-bd95-95b1ea6b1c22`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).