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type: "Bill"
title: "Protecting Washingtonians from invasion of privacy, including the unauthorized disclosure of sex designation information and historic sex designation changes in official government records."
description: "Protecting Washingtonians from invasion of privacy, including the unauthorized disclosure of sex designation information and historic sex designation changes in official government records."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "SB 6081"
citation: "Washington SB 6081 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pedersen"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 33
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-01-13"
last_action: "2026-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3c57392e-996d-487b-9585-1677523ff6fe"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=6081&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "5104df99e395380c24d2ed51d00279c7f735644749ac400b80344117352b7bfe"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wa"]
---
# Washington SB 6081 (2025-2026) — Protecting Washingtonians from invasion of privacy, including the unauthorized disclosure of sex designation information and historic sex designation changes in official government records.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/6081.htm)
2. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/6081-S.htm)
3. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/6081-S.PL.htm)
## Votes
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#38) — **30–19** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#27) — **57–36** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Pedersen — primary (person)
- Bateman — cosponsor (person)
- C. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Dhingra — cosponsor (person)
- Frame — cosponsor (person)
- Hasegawa — cosponsor (person)
- Liias — cosponsor (person)
- Nobles — cosponsor (person)
- Saldaña — cosponsor (person)
- Stanford — cosponsor (person)
- Valdez — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2026-01-13** First reading, referred to State Government, Tribal Affairs & Elections. `reading-1`
- **2026-01-20** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on State Government, Tribal Affairs & Elections at 1:30 PM.
- **2026-01-23** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on State Government, Tribal Affairs & Elections at 10:30 AM.
- **2026-01-23** SGTE - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-23** And refer to Transportation. `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-23** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2026-01-23** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2026-01-26** Referred to Transportation. `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-03** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Transportation at 4:00 PM.
- **2026-02-05** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Transportation at 1:30 PM.
- **2026-02-05** TRAN - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
- **2026-02-05** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2026-02-05** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2026-02-06** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2026-02-10** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2026-02-11** 1st substitute bill substituted (TRAN 26). `substitution`
- **2026-02-11** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2026-02-11** Third reading, passed; yeas, 30; nays, 19; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2026-02-14** First reading, referred to State Government & Tribal Relations. `reading-1`
- **2026-02-20** Public hearing in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations at 8:00 AM.
- **2026-02-24** Executive action taken in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations at 1:30 PM.
- **2026-02-24** SGOV - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-24** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2026-02-25** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-02** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2026-03-03** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2026-03-03** Third reading, passed; yeas, 57; nays, 36; absent, 0; excused, 5. `reading-3`
- **2026-03-04** President signed. `passage`
- **2026-03-05** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2026-03-10** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-16** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-16** Chapter 56, 2026 Laws. `became-law`
- **2026-03-16** Effective date 3/16/2026. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3c57392e-996d-487b-9585-1677523ff6fe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).