republic-os/legislation/us/states/wa/2025-2026/sb-5149.md

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Bill	Expanding the early childhood court program.	Expanding the early childhood court program.	us/states/wa	Washington Legislature	2025-2026	SB 5149	Washington SB 5149 (2025-2026)	bill		enacted	Cortes	3	25	2	2025-01-07	2025-04-22	openstates	ocd-bill/6dbeae1c-fb71-4eb7-b21e-f9a0b25558c2	https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=5149&Year=2025&Initiative=false	958ad5afcf4eb0d6da78046f2842ac26d2ebfeb38dd27755b3607a0f68ec1524	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wa

Washington SB 5149 (2025-2026) — Expanding the early childhood court program.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Bill (committee substitute) — source
2. Substitute Bill (committee substitute) — source
3. Substitute Passed Legislature (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#12) — 48–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#21) — 95–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Cortes — primary (person)
• C. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• Hasegawa — cosponsor (person)
• Krishnadasan — cosponsor (person)
• Liias — cosponsor (person)
• Nobles — cosponsor (person)
• Saldaña — cosponsor (person)
• Salomon — cosponsor (person)
• Shewmake — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-07 Prefiled for introduction. filing
• 2025-01-13 First reading, referred to Human Services. reading-1
• 2025-01-22 Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Human Services at 8:00 AM.
• 2025-01-29 Executive session scheduled, but no action was taken in the Senate Committee on Human Services at 8:00 AM.
• 2025-02-05 Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Human Services at 8:00 AM.
• 2025-02-05 HS - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. substitution
• 2025-02-06 Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
• 2025-02-12 Placed on second reading consent calendar. reading-2
• 2025-02-19 1st substitute bill substituted (HS 25). substitution
• 2025-02-19 Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. reading-3
• 2025-02-19 Third reading, passed; yeas, 48; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1. reading-3
• 2025-02-21 First reading, referred to Early Learning & Human Services. reading-1
• 2025-03-26 Public hearing in the House Committee on Early Learning & Human Services at 1:30 PM.
• 2025-03-28 Executive action taken in the House Committee on Early Learning & Human Services at 8:30 AM.
• 2025-03-28 ELHS - Majority; do pass. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-01 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 120, 2025 Laws. became-law
• 2025-04-22 Effective date 7/27/2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6dbeae1c-fb71-4eb7-b21e-f9a0b25558c2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).