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| Bill | Protecting consumers by removing barriers created by medical debt. | Protecting consumers by removing barriers created by medical debt. | us/states/wa | Washington Legislature | 2025-2026 | SB 5480 | Washington SB 5480 (2025-2026) |
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4 | 27 | 2 | 2025-01-24 | 2025-04-22 | openstates | ocd-bill/30660f96-0c1e-4453-addb-34aa24087911 | https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=5480&Year=2025&Initiative=false | 463f7d334ee87d0c6e456231269172ff5383337ca7127fb214846b8d986c31f1 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Washington SB 5480 (2025-2026) — Protecting consumers by removing barriers created by medical debt.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Bill (committee substitute) — source
- Engrossed Substitute Bill (committee substitute) — source
- Substitute Bill (committee substitute) — source
- Substitute Passed Legislature (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#8) — 35–12 (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#21) — 59–38 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Riccelli — primary (person)
- Alvarado — cosponsor (person)
- Bateman — cosponsor (person)
- C. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Chapman — cosponsor (person)
- Hasegawa — cosponsor (person)
- Lovelett — cosponsor (person)
- Nobles — cosponsor (person)
- Orwall — cosponsor (person)
- Ramos — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Slatter — cosponsor (person)
- Stanford — cosponsor (person)
- Trudeau — cosponsor (person)
- Valdez — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2025-01-24 First reading, referred to Law & Justice.
reading-1 - 2025-02-04 Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Law & Justice at 8:00 AM.
- 2025-02-06 Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Law & Justice at 10:30 AM.
- 2025-02-06 LAW - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
substitution - 2025-02-06 Minority; do not pass.
committee-passage-unfavorable - 2025-02-07 Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- 2025-02-19 Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
reading-2 - 2025-02-26 1st substitute bill substituted (LAW 25).
substitution - 2025-02-26 Floor amendment(s) adopted.
- 2025-02-26 Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
reading-3 - 2025-02-26 Third reading, passed; yeas, 35; nays, 12; absent, 0; excused, 2.
reading-3 - 2025-02-28 First reading, referred to Consumer Protection & Business.
reading-1 - 2025-03-18 Public hearing in the House Committee on Consumer Protection & Business at 1:30 PM.
- 2025-03-25 Executive action taken in the House Committee on Consumer Protection & Business at 1:30 PM.
- 2025-03-25 CPB - Majority; do pass.
committee-passage-favorable - 2025-03-25 Minority; do not pass.
committee-passage-unfavorable - 2025-03-25 Minority; without recommendation.
committee-passage-unfavorable - 2025-03-27 Referred to Rules 2 Review.
referral-committee - 2025-04-08 Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading.
reading-2 - 2025-04-09 Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
reading-3 - 2025-04-09 Third reading, passed; yeas, 59; nays, 38; absent, 0; excused, 1.
reading-3 - 2025-04-14 President signed.
passage - 2025-04-15 Speaker signed.
passage - 2025-04-17 Delivered to Governor.
executive-receipt - 2025-04-22 Governor signed.
executive-signature - 2025-04-22 Chapter 145, 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/30660f96-0c1e-4453-addb-34aa24087911. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).