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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 747

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Relating to: grants to match county investments in the health care, public health, and care provider workforce and making an appropriation. (FE)

County — Finance Health services department of — Supportive living and treatment Medical service — Occupations Public health Public instruction department of

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

20 cosponsors

Anderson (D) , Arney (D) , Bare (D) , Clancy (D) , DeSmidt (D) , Emerson (D) , Fitzgerald (D) , Joers (D) , Johnson (D) , Madison (D) , Palmeri (D) , Prado (D) , Roe (D) , Sheehan (D) , Sinicki (D) , Stroud (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Tenorio (D) , Udell (D)

Full history

  1. 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

  2. Dec 12, 2025 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and Local Government

  3. Feb 10, 2026 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Mar 23, 2026 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1