Senate2025-26 sessionFiscal note
ESSB 5912: Reinstating the indigent defense task force.
Did not pass. The 2025-26 session has ended.
- Sponsor
- Torres
- Introduced
- January 12, 2026
- Status
- S Rules 3
- Last action
- By resolution, returned to Senate Rules Committee for third reading. (March 12, 2026)
- As of
- October 16, 2026, 5:15 AM Pacific, from the Legislature’s records
What this bill does
Reinstates the Indigent Defense Task Force to study the current system for providing representation to persons who could not otherwise afford counsel.
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Floor votes
- Senate: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · February 5, 202648 yea · 0 nay · 1 not voting
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