Votes at a glance: Confirmations and key bills the Washington Senate passed on Feb. 3, 2026

The Washington State Senate used Feb. 3 floor time to confirm gubernatorial appointments and to pass numerous bills on a variety of topics. Below is a compact listing of confirmed appointments and bills the Senate declared passed on final reading, with the outcome and any roll-call tallies recorded on the floor.

Confirmations - Glenn F. Ellis (Senate gubernatorial appointment No. 9068) — Confirmed to the Peninsula College Board of Trustees. Floor tally recorded as 48 yays, 0 nays, 1 absent. - Suzanne Donaldson (No. 9090) — Confirmed to the Clark College Board of Trustees. Floor tally recorded as 49 yays, 0 nays. - Jesse E. Johnson (No. 9082) — Confirmed to the Highline College Board of Trustees. Floor tally recorded as 49 yays, 0 nays.

Selected bills and floor outcomes (passage declared on the floor) - Substitute SB 6,014 — Pregnancy and postpartum accommodations (technical cleanup); declared passed (constitutional majority recorded: 41 yea, 8 nay). - SB 5,863 — Records preservation (Lakeland Village); declared passed (49-0). - Substitute SB 5,825 — Washington State Leadership Board authority to solicit gifts, grants and endowments; declared passed (final roll-call tallies recorded on the floor). - Substitute SB 5,874 — Employer information reporting corrections; declared passed (constitutional majority recorded on the floor). - Substitute SB 6,002 — ALPR/driver privacy protections; declared passed following adoption of a striking amendment (floor recorded final passage). - Substitute SB 5,972 — Expands interest arbitration to certain correctional employees; declared passed (roll call recorded: 34 yea, 15 nay). - Substitute SB 5,203 — Wildlife connectivity and crossings account; declared passed (roll call recorded: 31 yea, 18 nay). - SB 5,286 — Reimbursement for policing costs near state hospitals (amendment 0534 adopted, set maximum cost up to $750,000 per biennium per facility); declared passed (49-0). - SB 5,877 — Technical correction for physician-related fees; declared passed (49-0). - SB 5,904 — Nursing titles and AI-related restrictions for professional titles; declared passed (49-0). - SB 5,915 — Health Technology Assessment Program updates; declared passed (49-0). - SB 5,919 — Agricultural red-flag notification incentives; declared passed (49-0). - Substitute SB 5,938 — Foreclosure prevention and related fee adjustments; declared passed (49-0). - SB 5,957 — Office of Homeless Youth prevention and protection expansion; declared passed (49-0). - SB 6,102 — Ambulance transport fund fee alignment with federal regulations; declared passed (49-0). - SB 6,103 — Rural emergency hospital designation (to preserve a struggling rural hospital’s revenue and emergency access); declared passed (49-0).

Notes on tallies and follow-up: Where the floor transcript recorded explicit roll-call results, those tallies are shown above. For other measures, the Senate declared final passage on the record; the text of bills and detailed vote sheets are available from the Secretary of the Senate for exact roll-call lists. Several bills advanced after adoption or rejection of floor amendments; check bill text and subsequent fiscal notes for implementation details.

Next steps: Bills declared passed by the Senate proceed as required by the legislative process; gubernatorial confirmations take effect per statutory rules for board appointments.