Senate2025-26 sessionFiscal note
SSB 5493: Concerning hospital price transparency.
Signed into law: Chapter 146, Laws of 2025
- Sponsor
- Riccelli
- Introduced
- January 24, 2025
- Status
- C 146 L 25
- Last action
- Effective date 7/27/2025. (April 22, 2025)
- As of
- October 16, 2026, 5:15 AM Pacific, from the Legislature’s records
What this bill does
Requires hospitals to comply with federal hospital price transparency rules, as they existed on January 1, 2025, and submit data to the Department of Health.
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Floor votes
- House: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · April 9, 202597 yea · 0 nay · 1 not voting
- Senate: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · March 11, 202549 yea · 0 nay
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