BILL · 2023–24 SESSION

SB 5710: Behavioral health/youth

Providing access to behavioral health services to youth in rural and underserved areas.

Summary

Creates a grant program within the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction to provide funding to educational service districts on an ongoing basis to offer students attending schools in rural areas access to a mental health professional using telemedicine.
Directs the Health Care Authority and other entities to investigate the disproportionally low participation by Eastern Washington families in an existing mental health referral service for children and teens and to report their findings and a mitigation plan to remedy this disparity to the Governor and Legislature by December 1, 2023.

From the Senate Bill Report (SB 5710), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to providing access to behavioral health services to youth in rural and underserved areas;

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

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

SB 5710 (2025–26) Diesel vessels/state ferries · Did not pass · died in committee
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SB 5710 (2019–20) Active transp safety council · Enacted with partial veto · Chapter 54, Laws of 2019
SB 5710 (2017–18) Public records act penalties · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5710 (2015–16) For hire, limo, taxi/ind ins · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5710 (2013–14) Reckless endangrmnt/firearms · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5710 (2011–12) Grocery store beer sales · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5710 (2009–10) State universities/tuition · Did not pass · died in committee