---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizing the Washington state leadership board to solicit gifts, grants, and endowments from public or private sources."
description: "Authorizing the Washington state leadership board to solicit gifts, grants, and endowments from public or private sources."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "SB 5825"
citation: "Washington SB 5825 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Wilson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 27
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-12-03"
last_action: "2026-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b379fa59-e926-42d4-afed-df688a743dea"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=5825&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "dfa9a6e894f8765100ccaf6fd757c09fb5376cf08ca9bd320e056f4efed55de6"
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 5825 (2025-2026) — Authorizing the Washington state leadership board to solicit gifts, grants, and endowments from public or private sources.

## 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/5825.htm)
2. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5825-S.htm)
3. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5825-S.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#3) — **85–8** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#7) — **33–16** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- C. Wilson — primary (person)
- Dozier — cosponsor (person)
- Krishnadasan — cosponsor (person)
- Lovelett — cosponsor (person)
- Nobles — cosponsor (person)
- Riccelli — cosponsor (person)
- Shewmake — cosponsor (person)
- Warnick — cosponsor (person)
- Wellman — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-12-03** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
- **2026-01-12** First reading, referred to State Government, Tribal Affairs & Elections. `reading-1`
- **2026-01-13** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on State Government, Tribal Affairs & Elections at 1:30 PM.
- **2026-01-16** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on State Government, Tribal Affairs & Elections at 10:30 AM.
- **2026-01-16** SGTE - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
- **2026-01-16** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2026-01-16** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2026-01-19** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2026-01-28** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2026-02-04** 1st substitute bill substituted (SGTE 26). `substitution`
- **2026-02-04** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2026-02-04** Third reading, passed; yeas, 33; nays, 16; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2026-02-06** First reading, referred to State Government & Tribal Relations. `reading-1`
- **2026-02-20** Public hearing in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations at 8:00 AM.
- **2026-02-25** Executive action taken in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations at 1:30 PM.
- **2026-02-25** SGOV - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-25** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2026-02-25** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-02** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2026-03-03** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2026-03-03** Third reading, passed; yeas, 85; nays, 8; absent, 0; excused, 5. `reading-3`
- **2026-03-04** President signed. `passage`
- **2026-03-05** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2026-03-09** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-14** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-14** Chapter 50, 2026 Laws. `became-law`
- **2026-03-14** Effective date 6/11/2026*. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b379fa59-e926-42d4-afed-df688a743dea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).