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Votes at a glance: Senate moves several bills toward law, including workplace, records and hospital reimbursement measures

Washington State Senate · February 4, 2026
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Summary

On the floor the Senate passed a set of bills on final reading including a pregnancy/postpartum accommodations cleanup (SB 6,014), historical records preservation (SB 5,863), employer reporting corrections (SB 5,874), and statutes to reimburse municipalities for policing costs around state hospitals (SB 5,286). The transcript records passage of each measure.

The Washington State Senate recorded final-passage actions on multiple bills during its floor session. Below are the principal items taken on final reading, as recorded in the official floor transcript.

- Substitute Senate Bill 6,014 (pregnancy and postpartum accommodations): Sponsor Senator Nobles described the measure as a technical cleanup to ensure the pregnancy and postpartum accommodation law operates as intended and protects medical privacy; the roll-call readback in the transcript was recorded as 41 yeas, 8 nays and the substitute was declared passed.

- Senate Bill 5,863 (records preservation related…

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