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SB 5480 — Protecting consumers by removing barriers created by medical debt.

Congress · introduced 2025-01-24

AN ACT Relating to protecting consumers by removing barriers created by medical debt;

Latest action: 2025-02-26 — 1st substitute bill substituted.

Sponsors

Action timeline

  1. · senate — First reading, referred to Law & Justice.
  2. · senate — LAW - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
  3. · senate — Minority; do not pass.
  4. · senate — LAW - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
  5. · senate — Minority; do not pass.
  6. · senate — Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
  7. · senate — Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
  8. · senate — Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
  9. · senate — Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
  10. · senate — 1st substitute bill substituted.
  11. · senate — 1st substitute bill substituted.
  12. · senate — Floor amendment(s) adopted.
  13. · senate — Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
  14. · senate — Third reading, passed; yeas, 35; nays, 12; absent, 0; excused, 2.
  15. · senate — First reading, referred to Consumer Protection & Business.
  16. · senate — CPB - Executive action taken by committee.
  17. · senate — CPB - Majority; do pass.
  18. · senate — Minority; do not pass.
  19. · senate — Minority; without recommendation.
  20. · senate — Referred to Rules 2 Review.
  21. · senate — Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading.
  22. · senate — Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
  23. · senate — Third reading, passed; yeas, 59; nays, 38; absent, 0; excused, 1.
  24. · senate — President signed.
  25. · senate — Speaker signed.
  26. · senate — Delivered to Governor.
  27. · senate — Governor signed.
  28. · senate — Chapter 145, 2025 Laws.
  29. · senate — Effective date 7/27/2025.

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Connected on the graph

Inbound (15)

datefromtypeamountrolesource
2025-01-24Alvarado, Emilycosponsor_of_bill—cosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-24Bateman, Jessicacosponsor_of_bill—cosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-24Wilson, Clairecosponsor_of_bill—cosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-24Chapman, Mikecosponsor_of_bill—cosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-24Hasegawa, Bobcosponsor_of_bill—cosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-24Lovelett, Lizcosponsor_of_bill—cosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-24Nobles, T'winacosponsor_of_bill—cosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-24Orwall, Tinacosponsor_of_bill—cosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-24Ramos, Billcosponsor_of_bill—cosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-24Riccelli, Marcussponsor_of_bill—sponsorsponsorship
2025-01-24Robinson, Junecosponsor_of_bill—cosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-24Slatter, Vandanacosponsor_of_bill—cosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-24Stanford, Derekcosponsor_of_bill—cosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-24Trudeau, Yasmincosponsor_of_bill—cosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-24Valdez, Javiercosponsor_of_bill—cosponsorsponsorship

Who matters

Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.

#MemberRoleSpeechesVotedScore
1Riccelli, Marcus (D, state_upper WA-3)sponsor0—5
2Alvarado, Emily (D, state_upper WA-34)cosponsor0—1
3Bateman, Jessica (D, state_upper WA-22)cosponsor0—1
4Chapman, Mike (D, state_upper WA-24)cosponsor0—1
5Hasegawa, Bob (D, state_upper WA-11)cosponsor0—1
6Lovelett, Liz (D, state_upper WA-40)cosponsor0—1
7Nobles, T'wina (D, state_upper WA-28)cosponsor0—1
8Orwall, Tina (D, state_upper WA-33)cosponsor0—1
9Ramos, Bill (D, state_upper WA-5)cosponsor0—1
10Robinson, June (D, state_upper WA-38)cosponsor0—1
11Slatter, Vandana (D, state_upper WA-48)cosponsor0—1
12Stanford, Derek (D, state_upper WA-1)cosponsor0—1
13Trudeau, Yasmin (D, state_upper WA-27)cosponsor0—1
14Valdez, Javier (D, state_upper WA-46)cosponsor0—1
15Wilson, Claire (D, state_upper WA-30)cosponsor0—1

Predicted vote

Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.

0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

Activity

Every typed-graph event involving this entity, newest first. Each row is one edge in the influence graph; click the date to jump to its provenance.

  1. 2025-01-24 · cosponsored by Alvarado, Emily (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  2. 2025-01-24 · cosponsored by Stanford, Derek (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  3. 2025-01-24 · cosponsored by Slatter, Vandana (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  4. 2025-01-24 · cosponsored by Chapman, Mike (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  5. 2025-01-24 · cosponsored by Valdez, Javier (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  6. 2025-01-24 · cosponsored by Trudeau, Yasmin (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  7. 2025-01-24 · cosponsored by Wilson, Claire (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  8. 2025-01-24 · cosponsored by Hasegawa, Bob (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  9. 2025-01-24 · cosponsored by Nobles, T'wina (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  10. 2025-01-24 · cosponsored by Lovelett, Liz (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  11. 2025-01-24 · cosponsored by Robinson, June (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  12. 2025-01-24 · cosponsored by Ramos, Bill (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  13. 2025-01-24 · sponsored by Riccelli, Marcus (sponsor) · sponsorship
  14. 2025-01-24 · cosponsored by Bateman, Jessica (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  15. 2025-01-24 · cosponsored by Orwall, Tina (cosponsor) · sponsorship

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