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Votes at a glance: Senate moves several bills toward law, including workplace, records and hospital reimbursement measures
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 to Lakeland Village): Sponsor Senator Kaufman described implementing Secretary of State recommendations to extend preservation deadlines and make some restricted records inspectable; the roll-call readback recorded in the transcript is 49 yeas, 0 nays and the bill was declared passed.
- Substitute Senate Bill 5,874 (employer information reporting): Sponsor Senator McEwen said the bill addresses reporting errors that produced fines for small businesses and enables corrections; the transcript records final passage after roll call (declared passed on the floor).
- Senate Bill 5,825 (Washington State Leadership Board): Substitute and amendments were debated; after amendment votes and final motion to advance, the bill was declared passed on final reading as recorded in the transcript.
- Senate Bill 5,286 (municipal reimbursement for policing costs related to state hospitals): Sponsor Senator Holy described amendment 0534 to cap reimbursement per facility and urged passage; the amendment was adopted and the bill was declared passed after roll call (the transcript reports a constitutional majority and passage was declared).
Additional bills taken on final reading included measures on arbitration for correctional employees (SB 5,972), wildlife connectivity/crossings (SB 5,203), and technical health‑care and emergency services bills (passage recorded for SB 5,877; SB 5,904; SB 5,915; SB 5,919; SB 5,938; SB 5,957; SB 6,102; SB 6,103). Where the transcript included explicit roll-call readbacks those are cited above; for other bills the floor transcript records final passage declarations but some roll-call counts are presented in noisy/readback form in the transcript.
What happens next: each passed bill will proceed through enrollment and transmittal steps; further action (including the governor's review) is not shown in the transcript.
