BILL · 2019–20 SESSION

SB 6109: Executorships

Ensuring persons with serious mental illness and substance use disorders receive proper care and assistance.

Summary

Establishes a four-year pilot in King, Pierce, and Snohomish counties to create executorships for persons who are incapable of caring for their health and well-being due to a behavioral health disorder.
Establishes requirements for services to be made available during the executorship including supportive housing, treatment, and vocational rehabilitation.
Provides court procedures to establish one-year renewable executorship terms with powers similar to guardianship.

From the Senate Bill Report (Orig.) (SB 6109), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to ensuring persons with serious mental illness and substance use disorders receive proper care and assistance;

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

Jan 13, 2020Referred to Behavioral Health Subcommittee to Health & Long Term Care.
Jan 13, 2020First reading, referred to Health & Long Term Care.
Dec 23, 2019Prefiled for introduction.

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

SB 6109 (2025–26) Private detention/investment · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 6109 (2023–24) Children and families · Enacted · Chapter 328, Laws of 2024
SB 6109 (2017–18) Wildland Urban Interface · Enacted · Chapter 189, Laws of 2018
SB 6109 (2015–16) Basic educ reqs compliance · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 6109 (2013–14) Rental cars/violations · Did not pass · stalled on the Senate floor
SB 6109 (2011–12) Closed exec. sess. meetings · Did not pass · passed Senate, stalled in House
SB 6109 (2009–10) State ferries system · Did not pass · stalled on the Senate floor
SB 6109 (2007–08) Sand and gravel · Did not pass · died in committee