republic-os/legislation/us/states/wa/2023-2024/sb-5982.md

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Bill	Updating the definition of "vaccine" in RCW 70.290.010 to include all federal food and drug administration-approved immunizations recommended by the centers for disease control and prevention.	Updating the definition of "vaccine" in RCW 70.290.010 to include all federal food and drug administration-approved immunizations recommended by the centers for disease control and prevention.	us/states/wa	Washington Legislature	2023-2024	SB 5982	Washington SB 5982 (2023-2024)	bill		enacted	Cleveland	2	26	2	2024-01-04	2024-03-13	openstates	ocd-bill/3c55327d-449e-42dc-b633-786ee481601b	http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=5982&year=2023	3ed0f7ef253a04f37d2d11a6bdfd361925badeeed4347bcc1b6f87f927bc2e10	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wa

Washington SB 5982 (2023-2024) — Updating the definition of "vaccine" in RCW 70.290.010 to include all federal food and drug administration-approved immunizations recommended by the centers for disease control and prevention.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#10) — 29–19 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#1) — 61–32 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Cleveland — primary (person)
• Conway — cosponsor (person)
• Dhingra — cosponsor (person)
• Frame — cosponsor (person)
• Keiser — cosponsor (person)
• Kuderer — cosponsor (person)
• Liias — cosponsor (person)
• Mullet — cosponsor (person)
• Nobles — cosponsor (person)
• Robinson — cosponsor (person)
• Salomon — cosponsor (person)
• Trudeau — cosponsor (person)
• Valdez — cosponsor (person)
• Van De Wege — cosponsor (person)
• Wellman — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-04 Prefiled for introduction. filing
• 2024-01-08 First reading, referred to Health & Long Term Care. reading-1
• 2024-01-12 Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Health & Long Term Care at 8:00 AM.
• 2024-01-16 Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Health & Long Term Care at 8:00 AM.
• 2024-01-16 HLTC - Majority; do pass. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-16 Minority; do not pass. committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2024-01-16 Minority; without recommendation. committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2024-01-17 Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
• 2024-01-24 Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. reading-2
• 2024-02-01 Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. reading-3
• 2024-02-01 Third reading, passed; yeas, 29; nays, 19; absent, 0; excused, 1. reading-3
• 2024-02-05 First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness. reading-1
• 2024-02-14 Public hearing in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 1:30 PM.
• 2024-02-16 Executive action taken in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 8:00 AM.
• 2024-02-16 HCW - Majority; do pass. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-16 Minority; do not pass. committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2024-02-19 Referred to Rules 2 Review. referral-committee
• 2024-02-21 Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. reading-2
• 2024-02-22 Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. reading-3
• 2024-02-22 Third reading, passed; yeas, 61; nays, 32; absent, 0; excused, 5. reading-3
• 2024-02-28 President signed. passage
• 2024-02-29 Speaker signed. passage
• 2024-03-07 Delivered to Governor. executive-receipt
• 2024-03-13 Governor signed. executive-signature
• 2024-03-13 Chapter 41, 2024 Laws. became-law
• 2024-03-13 Effective date 3/13/2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3c55327d-449e-42dc-b633-786ee481601b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).