republic-os/legislation/us/states/wa/2023-2024/sb-5778.md

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Bill	Protecting the rights of workers to refrain from attending meetings or listening to their employer's speech on political or religious matters.	Protecting the rights of workers to refrain from attending meetings or listening to their employer's speech on political or religious matters.	us/states/wa	Washington Legislature	2023-2024	SB 5778	Washington SB 5778 (2023-2024)	bill		enacted	Keiser	4	26	2	2023-12-04	2024-03-28	openstates	ocd-bill/58678937-e2d4-41e7-be02-8cb3509529f9	http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=5778&year=2023	2cf3cc489d65cfbc6974f1ba44b54da56e55787e3891f023ab111b786a7fe733	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wa

Washington SB 5778 (2023-2024) — Protecting the rights of workers to refrain from attending meetings or listening to their employer's speech on political or religious matters.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#25) — 28–20 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#4) — 55–41 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Keiser — primary (person)
• C. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• Cleveland — cosponsor (person)
• Conway — cosponsor (person)
• Dhingra — cosponsor (person)
• Frame — cosponsor (person)
• Hasegawa — cosponsor (person)
• Hunt — cosponsor (person)
• Kauffman — cosponsor (person)
• Kuderer — cosponsor (person)
• Liias — cosponsor (person)
• Lovelett — cosponsor (person)
• Lovick — cosponsor (person)
• Nguyen — cosponsor (person)
• Nobles — cosponsor (person)
• Randall — cosponsor (person)
• Salomon — cosponsor (person)
• Shewmake — cosponsor (person)
• Stanford — cosponsor (person)
• Trudeau — cosponsor (person)
• Valdez — cosponsor (person)
• Van De Wege — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-12-04 Prefiled for introduction. filing
• 2024-01-08 First reading, referred to Labor & Commerce. reading-1
• 2024-01-11 Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Labor & Commerce at 8:00 AM.
• 2024-01-16 Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Labor & Commerce at 10:30 AM.
• 2024-01-16 LC - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. substitution
• 2024-01-16 Minority; do not pass. committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2024-01-18 Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
• 2024-01-24 Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. reading-2
• 2024-02-07 1st substitute bill substituted (LC 24). substitution
• 2024-02-07 Floor amendment(s) adopted.
• 2024-02-07 Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. reading-3
• 2024-02-07 Third reading, passed; yeas, 28; nays, 20; absent, 0; excused, 1. reading-3
• 2024-02-09 First reading, referred to Labor & Workplace Standards. reading-1
• 2024-02-16 Public hearing in the House Committee on Labor & Workplace Standards at 10:30 AM.
• 2024-02-20 Executive action taken in the House Committee on Labor & Workplace Standards at 10:30 AM.
• 2024-02-20 LAWS - Majority; do pass. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-21 Referred to Rules 2 Review. referral-committee
• 2024-02-28 Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. reading-2
• 2024-02-29 Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. reading-3
• 2024-02-29 Third reading, passed; yeas, 55; nays, 41; absent, 0; excused, 2. reading-3
• 2024-03-05 President signed. passage
• 2024-03-06 Speaker signed. passage
• 2024-03-08 Delivered to Governor. executive-receipt
• 2024-03-28 Governor signed. executive-signature
• 2024-03-28 Chapter 357, 2024 Laws. became-law
• 2024-03-28 Effective date 6/6/2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/58678937-e2d4-41e7-be02-8cb3509529f9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).