republic-os/legislation/us/states/wa/2021-2022/sb-5612.md

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Bill	Ensuring domestic violence victims and survivors of victims have the opportunity to make a statement during sentencing for all domestic violence convictions.	Ensuring domestic violence victims and survivors of victims have the opportunity to make a statement during sentencing for all domestic violence convictions.	us/states/wa	Washington Legislature	2021-2022	SB 5612	Washington SB 5612 (2021-2022)	bill	DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SENTENCES AND SENTENCING VICTIMS OF CRIMES	enacted	L. Wilson	1	31	3	2022-01-10T05:00:00+00:00	2022-12-29T05:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/0c1bf2c0-4632-4deb-9064-ca92852848df	http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=5612&year=2021	b1b0ab251a0c6bd90b0d87e10b6ac72e32b219463c6a03c2147dec4afa424723	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wa

Washington SB 5612 (2021-2022) — Ensuring domestic violence victims and survivors of victims have the opportunity to make a statement during sentencing for all domestic violence convictions.

Version chain

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

1. Bill (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Final Passage as Amended by the House (#10) — 49–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#6) — 43–0 (pass) · upper
• Final Passage as Amended by the House (#20) — 98–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• L. Wilson — primary (person)
• Braun — cosponsor (person)
• Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Dhingra — cosponsor (person)
• J. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• Keiser — cosponsor (person)
• Lovick — cosponsor (person)
• Mullet — cosponsor (person)
• Rolfes — cosponsor (person)
• Short — cosponsor (person)
• Wagoner — cosponsor (person)
• Warnick — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-12-29T05:00:00+00:00 Prefiled for introduction. filing
• 2022-01-10T05:00:00+00:00 First reading, referred to Law & Justice. reading-1
• 2022-01-18T05:00:00+00:00 Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Law & Justice at 10:30 AM.
• 2022-01-20T05:00:00+00:00 Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Law & Justice at 10:30 AM.
• 2022-01-20T05:00:00+00:00 LAW - Majority; do pass. committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-01-21T05:00:00+00:00 Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
• 2022-01-26T05:00:00+00:00 Rules Committee relieved of further consideration.
• 2022-01-26T05:00:00+00:00 Placed on second reading consent calendar. reading-2
• 2022-01-28T05:00:00+00:00 Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. reading-3
• 2022-01-28T05:00:00+00:00 Third reading, passed; yeas, 43; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 6. reading-3
• 2022-02-01T05:00:00+00:00 First reading, referred to Public Safety. reading-1
• 2022-02-17T05:00:00+00:00 Public hearing in the House Committee on Public Safety at 1:30 PM.
• 2022-02-22T05:00:00+00:00 Executive action taken in the House Committee on Public Safety at 8:00 AM.
• 2022-02-22T05:00:00+00:00 PS - Majority; do pass with amendment(s). committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-02-23T05:00:00+00:00 Referred to Rules 2 Review. referral-committee
• 2022-02-26T05:00:00+00:00 Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. reading-2
• 2022-03-04T05:00:00+00:00 Committee amendment(s) adopted with no other amendments.
• 2022-03-04T05:00:00+00:00 Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. reading-3
• 2022-03-04T05:00:00+00:00 Third reading, passed; yeas, 98; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. reading-3
• 2022-03-08T05:00:00+00:00 Senate concurred in House amendments.
• 2022-03-08T05:00:00+00:00 Passed final passage; yeas, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. passage
• 2022-03-09T05:00:00+00:00 President signed. passage
• 2022-03-09T05:00:00+00:00 Speaker signed. passage
• 2022-03-11T05:00:00+00:00 Delivered to Governor. executive-receipt
• 2022-03-30T04:00:00+00:00 Governor signed. executive-signature
• 2022-03-30T04:00:00+00:00 Chapter 229, 2022 Laws. became-law
• 2022-03-30T04:00:00+00:00 Effective date 6/9/2022. became-law
• 2022-01-18T15:30:00+00:00 Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Law & Justice at 10:30 AM
• 2022-01-20T15:30:00+00:00 Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Law & Justice at 10:30 AM
• 2022-02-17T18:30:00+00:00 Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Public Safety at 01:30 PM
• 2022-02-22T13:00:00+00:00 Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Public Safety at 08:00 AM

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0c1bf2c0-4632-4deb-9064-ca92852848df. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).