BILL · 2025–26 SESSION

SB 5248: Bridge collisions

Creating a work group to make recommendations concerning bridge collisions by large commercial vessels.

Summary

Creates the Vessel Bridge Collision Work Group to review the impact resistance of Washington State bridges and make recommendations to reduce collisions and lessen their impacts.

From the Senate Bill Report (SB 5248), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to creating a work group to make recommendations concerning bridge collisions by large commercial vessels;

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 5248 (2023–24) Tutoring & extended learning · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5248 (2021–22) Jail standards task force · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5248 (2019–20) Definition of theft · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5248 (2017–18) Prescribing opioids · Did not pass · passed Senate, stalled in House
SB 5248 (2015–16) Liquor industry members · Did not pass · stalled on the Senate floor
SB 5248 (2013–14) Plastic shopping bag tax · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5248 (2011–12) Water system/negotiated sale · Did not pass · stalled on the Senate floor
SB 5248 (2009–10) Military children · Enacted · Chapter 380, Laws of 2009