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BILL · 2025–26 SESSION · LATEST VERSION SSB 5342

SB 5342: Legislators/state facilities

Providing access for legislators to facilities owned and operated by the state.

Summary

  • Requires the Department of Corrections; the Department of Children, Youth, and Families; and the Department of Social and Health Services, to make reasonable efforts to provide access to a facility or institution upon written request of an elected or appointed member of the Legislature.
  • Limits the request for access to only facilities owned and operated by the respective agency and does not include any facilities operated in contract with the agency.

From the Senate Bill Report (SB 5342), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedJan 17, 2025
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed Senate
  4. Passed House
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Leonard Christian (R-4)
Introduced
January 17, 2025 in the Senate
Last action
January 12, 2026
Budget
Has a fiscal note
Versions
SB 5342, SSB 5342

AN ACT Relating to providing access for legislators to facilities owned and operated by the state;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Leonard Christian (R-4)

1 co-sponsor (1 Democrat, 0 Republicans)

Noel Frame D-36

Votes

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

History

  1. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status. (SSB 5342)
  2. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  3. Referred to Ways & Means. (SSB 5342)
  4. Referred to Ways & Means.
  5. And refer to Ways & Means. (SSB 5342)
  6. HS - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. (SSB 5342)
  7. HS - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
  8. And refer to Ways & Means.
  9. First reading, referred to Human Services.

SB 5342 in other sessions

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

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