SB 5981 — Protecting patient access to discounted medications and health care services through Washington's health care safety net by preventing manufacturer limitations on the 340B drug pricing program.

Congress · introduced 2026-01-12

AN ACT Relating to protecting patient access to discounted medications and health care services through Washington's health care safety net by preventing manufacturer limitations on the 340B drug pricing program;

Latest action: 2026-02-13 — 2nd substitute bill substituted.

Action timeline

2026-01-05 · senate — Prefiled for introduction.
2026-01-12 · senate — First reading, referred to Health & Long-Term Care.
2026-01-27 · senate — HLTC - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
2026-01-27 · senate — And refer to Ways & Means.
2026-01-27 · senate — Minority; do not pass.
2026-01-27 · senate — HLTC - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
2026-01-27 · senate — And refer to Ways & Means.
2026-01-27 · senate — Minority; do not pass.
2026-01-28 · senate — Referred to Ways & Means.
2026-01-28 · senate — Referred to Ways & Means.
2026-02-09 · senate — WM - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
2026-02-09 · senate — Minority; do not pass.
2026-02-09 · senate — Minority; without recommendation.
2026-02-09 · senate — Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
2026-02-09 · senate — WM - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
2026-02-09 · senate — Minority; do not pass.
2026-02-09 · senate — Minority; without recommendation.
2026-02-09 · senate — Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
2026-02-09 · senate — WM - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
2026-02-09 · senate — Minority; do not pass.
2026-02-09 · senate — Minority; without recommendation.
2026-02-09 · senate — Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
2026-02-10 · senate — Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
2026-02-10 · senate — Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
2026-02-10 · senate — Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
2026-02-13 · senate — 2nd substitute bill substituted.
2026-02-13 · senate — 2nd substitute bill substituted.
2026-02-13 · senate — 2nd substitute bill substituted.
2026-02-13 · senate — Floor amendment(s) adopted.
2026-02-13 · senate — Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
2026-02-13 · senate — Third reading, passed; yeas, 30; nays, 18; absent, 0; excused, 1.
2026-02-17 · senate — First reading, referred to Health Care & Wellness.
2026-02-25 · senate — HCW - Executive action taken by committee.
2026-02-25 · senate — HCW - Majority; do pass with amendment(s).
2026-02-25 · senate — Minority; do not pass.
2026-02-25 · senate — Minority; without recommendation.
2026-02-25 · senate — Referred to Appropriations.
2026-03-02 · senate — APP - Executive action taken by committee.
2026-03-02 · senate — APP - Majority; do pass with amendment(s) by Health Care & Wellness.
2026-03-02 · senate — Minority; do not pass.
2026-03-02 · senate — Minority; without recommendation.
2026-03-02 · senate — Referred to Rules 2 Review.
2026-03-04 · senate — Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading.
2026-03-06 · senate — Committee amendment(s) adopted with no other amendments.
2026-03-06 · senate — Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
2026-03-06 · senate — Third reading, passed; yeas, 67; nays, 30; absent, 0; excused, 1.
2026-03-09 · senate — Senate concurred in House amendments.
2026-03-09 · senate — Passed final passage; yeas, 30; nays, 19; absent, 0; excused, 0.
2026-03-10 · senate — President signed.
2026-03-11 · senate — Speaker signed.
2026-03-12 · senate — Delivered to Governor.
2026-03-25 · senate — Governor signed.
2026-03-25 · senate — Chapter 227, 2026 Laws.
2026-03-25 · senate — Effective date 6/11/2026.

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Connected on the graph

Inbound (13)

date	from	type	amount	role	source
2026-01-12	Alvarado, Emily	cosponsor_of_bill	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
2026-01-12	Bateman, Jessica	cosponsor_of_bill	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
2026-01-12	Chapman, Mike	cosponsor_of_bill	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
2026-01-12	Cleveland, Annette	sponsor_of_bill	—	sponsor	sponsorship
2026-01-12	Dhingra, Manka	cosponsor_of_bill	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
2026-01-12	Frame, Noel	cosponsor_of_bill	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
2026-01-12	Harris, Paul	cosponsor_of_bill	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
2026-01-12	Hasegawa, Bob	cosponsor_of_bill	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
2026-01-12	Liias, Marko	cosponsor_of_bill	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
2026-01-12	Pedersen, Jamie	cosponsor_of_bill	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
2026-01-12	Saldaña, Rebecca	cosponsor_of_bill	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
2026-01-12	Slatter, Vandana	cosponsor_of_bill	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
2026-01-12	Valdez, Javier	cosponsor_of_bill	—	cosponsor	sponsorship

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.

#	Member	Role	Voted	Score
1	Cleveland, Annette (D, state_upper WA-49)	sponsor	—	5
2	Alvarado, Emily (D, state_upper WA-34)	cosponsor	—	1
3	Bateman, Jessica (D, state_upper WA-22)	cosponsor	—	1
4	Chapman, Mike (D, state_upper WA-24)	cosponsor	—	1
5	Dhingra, Manka (D, state_upper WA-45)	cosponsor	—	1
6	Frame, Noel (D, state_upper WA-36)	cosponsor	—	1
7	Harris, Paul (R, state_upper WA-17)	cosponsor	—	1
8	Hasegawa, Bob (D, state_upper WA-11)	cosponsor	—	1
9	Liias, Marko (D, state_upper WA-21)	cosponsor	—	1
10	Pedersen, Jamie (D, state_upper WA-43)	cosponsor	—	1
11	Saldaña, Rebecca (D, state_upper WA-37)	cosponsor	—	1
12	Slatter, Vandana (D, state_upper WA-48)	cosponsor	—	1
13	Valdez, Javier (D, state_upper WA-46)	cosponsor	—	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.

2026-01-12 · cosponsored by Slatter, Vandana (cosponsor) · sponsorship
2026-01-12 · cosponsored by Saldaña, Rebecca (cosponsor) · sponsorship
2026-01-12 · cosponsored by Harris, Paul (cosponsor) · sponsorship
2026-01-12 · cosponsored by Frame, Noel (cosponsor) · sponsorship
2026-01-12 · cosponsored by Dhingra, Manka (cosponsor) · sponsorship
2026-01-12 · cosponsored by Bateman, Jessica (cosponsor) · sponsorship
2026-01-12 · cosponsored by Chapman, Mike (cosponsor) · sponsorship
2026-01-12 · cosponsored by Valdez, Javier (cosponsor) · sponsorship
2026-01-12 · cosponsored by Pedersen, Jamie (cosponsor) · sponsorship
2026-01-12 · cosponsored by Alvarado, Emily (cosponsor) · sponsorship
2026-01-12 · sponsored by Cleveland, Annette (sponsor) · sponsorship
2026-01-12 · cosponsored by Hasegawa, Bob (cosponsor) · sponsorship
2026-01-12 · cosponsored by Liias, Marko (cosponsor) · sponsorship

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