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SB5998Introduced in the Senate

Making 2025-2027 fiscal biennium supplemental operating appropriations.

Passed

Introduced by June Robinson, District 38

What does this bill do?

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Official description

Making 2025-2027 fiscal biennium supplemental operating appropriations.

Where it stands

Effective date 4/1/2026.

April 1, 2026

How did lawmakers vote?

House votes

2 recorded votes · each counted separately

Senate votes

3 recorded votes · each counted separately

SenateStage: Senate Final Passage as Recommended by Conference Committee · March 12, 2026

28

Yes

21

No

0

Absent or Not Voting

49 senators recorded in this Senate vote. Colors show vote categories only, not whether a vote was good or bad.

See how each senator voted

SenatorDistrictVote
Marcus Riccelli003AYes
Leonard Christian004BNo
Victoria Hunt005AYes
Keith Goehner012ANo
Paul Harris017BNo
Jessica Bateman022BYes
Mike Chapman024AYes
Tina Orwall033AYes
Emily Alvarado034AYes
Vandana Slatter048AYes

Bill history

  1. Prefiled for introduction.

  2. First reading, referred to Ways & Means.

  3. Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 4:00 PM.

  4. Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 4:00 PM.

  5. Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 1:30 PM.

  6. WM - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.

  7. Minority; do not pass.

  8. Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.

  9. Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.

  10. 1st substitute bill substituted

  11. Floor amendment

  12. Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.

  13. Third reading, passed; yeas, 30; nays, 19; absent, 0; excused, 0.

  14. Read first time, rules suspended, and placed on second reading calendar.

  15. Floor amendment

  16. Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.

  17. Third reading, passed; yeas, 52; nays, 41; absent, 0; excused, 5.

  18. Senate refuses to concur in House amendments. Asks House for conference thereon.

  19. Conference committee appointed. Senators Robinson, Stanford, Gildon.

  20. Conference committee request granted.

  21. Conference committee appointed. Representatives Ormsby, Gregerson, Couture.

  22. Conference committee report; received 10:57 AM 3/11/2026.

  23. Conference committee report; received 11:20 AM 3/11/2026.

  24. Conference committee report adopted.

  25. Passed final passage as recommended by conference committee; yeas, 54; nays, 43; absent, 0; excused, 1.

  26. Conference committee report adopted.

  27. Passed final passage as recommended by conference committee; yeas, 28; nays, 21; absent, 0; excused, 0.

  28. President signed.

  29. Speaker signed.

  30. Delivered to Governor.

  31. Governor partially vetoed.

  32. Chapter 268, 2026 Laws PV.

  33. Effective date 4/1/2026.

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