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Washington · 2025–26 Regular Sessions · Bill

SB 5557: Pregnancy/emerg. treatment

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 5557 is a bill introduced in the Washington Senate on January 28, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Codifying emergency rules to protect the right of a pregnant person to access treatment for emergency medical conditions in hospital emergency departments. Primary sponsor: Deborah Krishnadasan (D). It lists 16 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (April 29, 2025): Governor signed.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official title

AN ACT Relating to codifying emergency rules to protect the right of a pregnant person to access treatment for emergency medical conditions in hospital emergency departments;

Nonpartisan staff bill reports (analyses) are available on the official bill page.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 17

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Deborah KrishnadasanPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate26
Adrian CortesCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate18
Manka DhingraCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate45
Noel FrameCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate36
Bob HasegawaCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate11
Claudia KauffmanCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate47
Marko LiiasCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate21
Liz LovelettCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate40
T'wina NoblesCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate28
Tina OrwallCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate33
Jamie PedersenCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate43
Rebecca SaldañaCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate37
Vandana SlatterCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate48
Derek StanfordCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate1
Yasmin TrudeauCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate27
Javier ValdezCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate46
Claire WilsonCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate30

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Governor signed.
  2. Chapter 182, 2025 Laws.
  3. Effective date 4/29/2025.
  4. Delivered to Governor.
  5. Speaker signed.
  6. President signed.
  7. Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
  8. Third reading, passed; yeas, 84; nays, 12; absent, 0; excused, 2.
  9. Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading.
  10. Referred to Rules 2 Review.
  11. HCW - Majority; do pass.
  12. Minority; do not pass.

Showing 12 most recent of 25 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Washington State Legislature Web Services
  2. Official bill page