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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 719

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Relating to: funding for a grant administration system for veterans benefits programs and making an appropriation. (FE)

Veteran — Relief Veterans affairs department of Video recording

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

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What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill increases a Department of Veterans Affairs appropriation account in both fiscal years of the 2025-27 fiscal biennium for the purchase and ongoing maintenance of a new cloud-based grant administration system for veterans benefits programs.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Carpenter (D) , Dassler-Alfheim (D) , Drake (D) , Habush Sinykin (D) , Hesselbein (D) , L. Johnson (D) , Larson (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Roys (D) , Smith (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Wirch (D)

20 cosponsors

Arney (D) , Bare (D) , Hong (D) , J. Jacobson (D) , Joers (D) , Johnson (D) , Keyeski (D) , McCarville (D) , Miresse (D) , Moore Omokunde (D) , Neubauer (D) , Rivera-Wagner (D) , Roe (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Stroud (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Tenorio (D) , Udell (D)

Full history

  1. Dec 2, 2025 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Hesselbein, Habush Sinykin, Drake, Ratcliff, Roys, L. Johnson, Wirch, Dassler-Alfheim, Smith, Carpenter, Larson and Spreitzer; cosponsored by Representatives Tenorio, Sinicki, Rivera-Wagner, Miresse, Joers, Subeck, Stubbs, Udell, Roe, McCarville, Snodgrass, Hong, Bare, Arney, Neubauer and Stroud

  2. Dec 2, 2025 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources, Veteran and Military Affairs

  3. Dec 8, 2025 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Jan 27, 2026 · Senate

    Representative Johnson added as a cosponsor

  5. Feb 17, 2026 · Senate

    Representative Moore Omokunde added as a cosponsor

  6. Mar 19, 2026 · Senate

    Representative J. Jacobson added as a cosponsor

  7. Mar 23, 2026 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

  8. Jun 1, 2026 · Senate

    Senator Keyeski added as a coauthor