republic-os/legislation/us/states/wa/2023-2024/sb-5986.md

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Bill	Protecting consumers from out-of-network health care services charges.	Protecting consumers from out-of-network health care services charges.	us/states/wa	Washington Legislature	2023-2024	SB 5986	Washington SB 5986 (2023-2024)	bill		enacted	Cleveland	3	41	3	2024-01-04	2024-03-19	openstates	ocd-bill/d4c01aa7-3585-4152-9a98-76899acb801e	http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=5986&year=2023	1875be2ecabdd625545cfa16347457060cbb13d475bf6734ed442651201a5a6e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wa

Washington SB 5986 (2023-2024) — Protecting consumers from out-of-network health care services charges.

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

• Final Passage as Amended by the House (#39) — 49–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#16) — 48–0 (pass) · upper
• Final Passage as Amended by the House (#1) — 95–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Cleveland — primary (person)
• Hasegawa — cosponsor (person)
• Kuderer — cosponsor (person)
• Mullet — cosponsor (person)
• Muzzall — cosponsor (person)
• Nobles — cosponsor (person)
• Randall — cosponsor (person)
• Salomon — cosponsor (person)
• Valdez — 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 And refer to Ways & Means. referral-committee
• 2024-01-17 Referred to Ways & Means. referral-committee
• 2024-01-29 Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 4:00 PM.
• 2024-02-05 Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 10:00 AM.
• 2024-02-05 WM - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. substitution
• 2024-02-05 Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
• 2024-02-06 Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. reading-2
• 2024-02-08 1st substitute bill substituted (WM 24). substitution
• 2024-02-08 Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. reading-3
• 2024-02-08 Third reading, passed; yeas, 48; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1. reading-3
• 2024-02-10 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 session scheduled, but no action was taken in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 8:00 AM.
• 2024-02-20 Executive session scheduled, but no action was taken in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 1:30 PM.
• 2024-02-21 Executive action taken in the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness at 1:30 PM.
• 2024-02-21 HCW - Majority; do pass with amendment(s). committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-21 Minority; do not pass. committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2024-02-21 Minority; without recommendation. committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2024-02-21 Referred to Appropriations. referral-committee
• 2024-02-23 Public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 1:30 PM.
• 2024-02-26 Executive action taken in the House Committee on Appropriations at 10:30 AM.
• 2024-02-26 APP - Majority; do pass with amendment(s) by Health Care & Wellness. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-26 Minority; without recommendation. committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2024-02-26 Referred to Rules 2 Review. referral-committee
• 2024-02-27 Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. reading-2
• 2024-02-28 Committee amendment(s) adopted with no other amendments.
• 2024-02-28 Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. reading-3
• 2024-02-28 Third reading, passed; yeas, 95; nays, 1; absent, 0; excused, 2. reading-3
• 2024-03-04 Senate concurred in House amendments.
• 2024-03-04 Passed final passage; yeas, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. passage
• 2024-03-06 President signed. passage
• 2024-03-07 Speaker signed. passage
• 2024-03-08 Delivered to Governor. executive-receipt
• 2024-03-19 Governor signed. executive-signature
• 2024-03-19 Chapter 218, 2024 Laws. became-law
• 2024-03-19 Effective date 6/6/2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d4c01aa7-3585-4152-9a98-76899acb801e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).