---
type: "Bill"
title: "Concerning contraceptive coverage."
description: "Concerning contraceptive coverage."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "SB 5498"
citation: "Washington SB 5498 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alvarado"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-27"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/50d487c9-9960-48ba-81f4-be8c33054c82"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=5498&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "f3bc5aadc4e6c881903f323b23d312446ef412d5bea7134f289d3ad39aaf4476"
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 5498 (2025-2026) — Concerning contraceptive coverage.

## 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/5498.htm)
2. **Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5498.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#10) — **46–3** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#11) — **96–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alvarado — primary (person)
- Bateman — cosponsor (person)
- C. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Cleveland — cosponsor (person)
- Frame — cosponsor (person)
- Liias — cosponsor (person)
- Lovelett — cosponsor (person)
- Nobles — cosponsor (person)
- Pedersen — cosponsor (person)
- Saldaña — cosponsor (person)
- Salomon — cosponsor (person)
- Slatter — cosponsor (person)
- Stanford — cosponsor (person)
- Trudeau — cosponsor (person)
- Valdez — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-27** First reading, referred to Health & Long-Term Care. `reading-1`
- **2025-02-18** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Health & Long-Term Care at 10:30 AM.
- **2025-02-21** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Health & Long-Term Care at 8:00 AM.
- **2025-02-21** HLTC - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-21** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-02-21** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2025-02-26** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2025-03-03** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-03** Third reading, passed; yeas, 46; nays, 3; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-05** First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-18** Public hearing in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-03-25** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-03-25** HCW - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2025-04-09** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-09** Third reading, passed; yeas, 96; nays, 1; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-14** President signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-15** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-17** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-22** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-22** Chapter 147, 2025 Laws. `became-law`
- **2025-04-22** 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/50d487c9-9960-48ba-81f4-be8c33054c82`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).