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Committee reviews bill to let state redistribute stockpiled abortion medications
Summary
Senate Human Services heard testimony on SB 5,917, which would let the Department of Corrections and Department of Health move or sell state'purchased mifepristone and misoprostol to healthcare providers (including donation) and remove a mandatory pricing requirement; witnesses on both sides urged the committee to weigh access, safety, and taxpayer cost.
Senate staff told the Human Services Committee that Washington's Department of Corrections holds a large stockpile of abortion medications and that SB 5,917 would clarify how those doses may be moved to providers.
"In 2023, the department purchased 30,000 doses of mifepristone. In 2025, DOC purchased an additional 17,600 doses and 155,000 doses of misoprostol," committee staff said, and described the bill as clarifying that the Department of Corrections may donate or sell the medications to health-care providers or health-care entities and making charging for distribution discretionary rather than mandatory.
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