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SB 5400Supporting local news journalism.

Congress · introduced 2025-01-21

AN ACT Relating to supporting local news journalism;

Latest action: 2026-01-12 By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.

Sponsors

Action timeline

  1. · senate First reading, referred to Labor & Commerce.
  2. · senate LC - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
  3. · senate LC - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
  4. · senate Minority; do not pass.
  5. · senate And refer to Ways & Means.
  6. · senate Referred to Ways & Means.
  7. · senate Minority; do not pass.
  8. · senate And refer to Ways & Means.
  9. · senate Referred to Ways & Means.
  10. · senate By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  11. · senate By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.

Text versions

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Connected on the graph

Inbound (13)

datefromtypeamountrolesource
2025-01-21Boehnke, Mattcosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-21Chapman, Mikecosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-21Cortes, Adriancosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-21Frame, Noelcosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-21Krishnadasan, Deborahcosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-21Lovelett, Lizcosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-21Lovick, Johncosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-21Orwall, Tinacosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-21Riccelli, Marcuscosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-21Saldaña, Rebeccacosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-21Shewmake, Sharoncosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-21Valdez, Javiercosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-21Liias, Markosponsor_of_billsponsorsponsorship

Who matters

Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.

#MemberRoleSpeechesVotedScore
1Liias, Marko (D, state_upper WA-21)sponsor05
2Boehnke, Matt (R, state_upper WA-8)cosponsor01
3Chapman, Mike (D, state_upper WA-24)cosponsor01
4Cortes, Adrian (D, state_upper WA-18)cosponsor01
5Frame, Noel (D, state_upper WA-36)cosponsor01
6Krishnadasan, Deborah (D, state_upper WA-26)cosponsor01
7Lovelett, Liz (D, state_upper WA-40)cosponsor01
8Lovick, John (D, state_upper WA-44)cosponsor01
9Orwall, Tina (D, state_upper WA-33)cosponsor01
10Riccelli, Marcus (D, state_upper WA-3)cosponsor01
11Saldaña, Rebecca (D, state_upper WA-37)cosponsor01
12Shewmake, Sharon (D, state_upper WA-42)cosponsor01
13Valdez, Javier (D, state_upper WA-46)cosponsor01

Predicted vote

Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.

0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

Activity

Every typed-graph event involving this entity, newest first. Each row is one edge in the influence graph; click the date to jump to its provenance.

  1. 2025-01-21 · cosponsored by Orwall, Tina (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  2. 2025-01-21 · cosponsored by Cortes, Adrian (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  3. 2025-01-21 · cosponsored by Boehnke, Matt (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  4. 2025-01-21 · cosponsored by Lovelett, Liz (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  5. 2025-01-21 · cosponsored by Valdez, Javier (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  6. 2025-01-21 · sponsored by Liias, Marko (sponsor) · sponsorship
  7. 2025-01-21 · cosponsored by Lovick, John (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  8. 2025-01-21 · cosponsored by Riccelli, Marcus (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  9. 2025-01-21 · cosponsored by Krishnadasan, Deborah (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  10. 2025-01-21 · cosponsored by Chapman, Mike (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  11. 2025-01-21 · cosponsored by Frame, Noel (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  12. 2025-01-21 · cosponsored by Shewmake, Sharon (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  13. 2025-01-21 · cosponsored by Saldaña, Rebecca (cosponsor) · sponsorship

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