Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Relating to: grants to match county investments in the health care, public health, and care provider workforce and making an appropriation. (FE)
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- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Senate, not reached
- Passes Assembly, not reached
- Governor signs, not reached
- Law, not reached
Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill requires the Department of Health Services to award grants to each county to match any investments made by the county in the previous fiscal year in the recruitment, retention, mental health, trauma care and prevention, or wellness of the county’s health care, public health, child care, long-term care, and other care provider workforce. Under the bill, grants may not exceed an amount equal to $1.11 multiplied by the county’s population.
What it would cost
Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs
Sponsors
Introduced by: Hesselbein (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Roys (D) , Spreitzer (D)
Full history
- Dec 12, 2025 · Senate
Introduced by Senators Hesselbein, Ratcliff, Roys and Spreitzer; cosponsored by Representatives Bare, Emerson, Joers, Anderson, Arney, Clancy, DeSmidt, Fitzgerald, Johnson, Madison, Prado, Roe, Sheehan, Sinicki, Stroud, Stubbs, Subeck, Tenorio, Udell and Palmeri
- Dec 12, 2025 · Senate
Read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and Local Government
- Feb 10, 2026 · Senate
Fiscal estimate received
- Mar 23, 2026 · Senate
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1