ESSB 5557: Codifying emergency rules to protect the right of a pregnant person to access treatment for emergency medical conditions in hospital emergency departments.
Signed into law: Chapter 182, Laws of 2025
- Sponsor
- Krishnadasan
- Introduced
- January 28, 2025
- Status
- C 182 L 25
- Last action
- Effective date 4/29/2025. (April 29, 2025)
- As of
- October 16, 2026, 5:15 AM Pacific, from the Legislature’s records
What this bill does
Requires hospitals, when providing emergency services, to provide treatment to a pregnant person who comes to the hospital with an emergency medical condition that is consistent with the applicable standard of care for such condition or, if authorized, to transfer the patient to another hospital capable of providing the treatment, with the patient's informed consent.
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Floor votes
- House: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · April 11, 202584 yea · 12 nay · 2 not voting
- Senate: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · March 5, 202530 yea · 19 nay
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