SB 5458 — Concerning newspapers and eligible digital content.
Congress · introduced 2025-01-23
AN ACT Relating to newspapers and eligible digital content;
Latest action: 2026-01-12 — Senate Rules "X" file.
Sponsors
- Frame, Noel (D, WA-36) — sponsor · 2025-01-23
- Cleveland, Annette (D, WA-49) — cosponsor · 2025-01-23
- Robinson, June (D, WA-38) — cosponsor · 2025-01-23
- Liias, Marko (D, WA-21) — cosponsor · 2025-01-23
- Braun, John (R, WA-20) — cosponsor · 2025-01-23
- Chapman, Mike (D, WA-24) — cosponsor · 2025-01-23
- Conway, Steve (D, WA-29) — cosponsor · 2025-01-23
- Hasegawa, Bob (D, WA-11) — cosponsor · 2025-01-23
- Lovick, John (D, WA-44) — cosponsor · 2025-01-23
- Nobles, T'wina (D, WA-28) — cosponsor · 2025-01-23
- Orwall, Tina (D, WA-33) — cosponsor · 2025-01-23
- Saldaña, Rebecca (D, WA-37) — cosponsor · 2025-01-23
- Salomon, Jesse (D, WA-32) — cosponsor · 2025-01-23
- Shewmake, Sharon (D, WA-42) — cosponsor · 2025-01-23
- Slatter, Vandana (D, WA-48) — cosponsor · 2025-01-23
- Valdez, Javier (D, WA-46) — cosponsor · 2025-01-23
Action timeline
- · senate — First reading, referred to Ways & Means.
- · senate — WM - Majority; do pass.
- · senate — Minority; do not pass.
- · senate — Minority; without recommendation.
- · senate — Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- · senate — Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- · senate — Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- · senate — Third reading, passed; yeas, 40; nays, 9; absent, 0; excused, 0.
- · senate — First reading, referred to Finance.
- · senate — By resolution, returned to Senate Rules Committee for third reading.
- · senate — By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
- · senate — Senate Rules "X" file.
Text versions
No text versions on file yet — same ingest as the action timeline populates these. Each version has direct links to the XML / HTML / PDF at govinfo.gov.
Connected on the graph
Inbound (16)
| date | from | type | amount | role | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-23 | Braun, John | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-01-23 | Chapman, Mike | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-01-23 | Cleveland, Annette | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-01-23 | Conway, Steve | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-01-23 | Hasegawa, Bob | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-01-23 | Liias, Marko | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-01-23 | Lovick, John | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-01-23 | Nobles, T'wina | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-01-23 | Orwall, Tina | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-01-23 | Robinson, June | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-01-23 | Saldaña, Rebecca | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-01-23 | Salomon, Jesse | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-01-23 | Shewmake, Sharon | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-01-23 | Slatter, Vandana | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-01-23 | Valdez, Javier | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-01-23 | Frame, Noel | sponsor_of_bill | — | sponsor | sponsorship |
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.
| # | Member | Role | Speeches | Voted | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Frame, Noel (D, state_upper WA-36) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
| 2 | Braun, John (R, state_upper WA-20) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 3 | Chapman, Mike (D, state_upper WA-24) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 4 | Cleveland, Annette (D, state_upper WA-49) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 5 | Conway, Steve (D, state_upper WA-29) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 6 | Hasegawa, Bob (D, state_upper WA-11) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 7 | Liias, Marko (D, state_upper WA-21) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 8 | Lovick, John (D, state_upper WA-44) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 9 | Nobles, T'wina (D, state_upper WA-28) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 10 | Orwall, Tina (D, state_upper WA-33) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 11 | Robinson, June (D, state_upper WA-38) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 12 | Saldaña, Rebecca (D, state_upper WA-37) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 13 | Salomon, Jesse (D, state_upper WA-32) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 14 | Shewmake, Sharon (D, state_upper WA-42) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 15 | Slatter, Vandana (D, state_upper WA-48) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 16 | Valdez, Javier (D, state_upper WA-46) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
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.
- 2025-01-23 · cosponsored by Nobles, T'wina (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-23 · cosponsored by Braun, John (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-23 · cosponsored by Lovick, John (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-23 · cosponsored by Saldaña, Rebecca (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-23 · cosponsored by Hasegawa, Bob (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-23 · cosponsored by Orwall, Tina (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-23 · cosponsored by Chapman, Mike (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-23 · cosponsored by Cleveland, Annette (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-23 · cosponsored by Salomon, Jesse (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-23 · cosponsored by Liias, Marko (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-23 · cosponsored by Robinson, June (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-23 · cosponsored by Valdez, Javier (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-23 · cosponsored by Slatter, Vandana (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-23 · cosponsored by Conway, Steve (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-23 · sponsored by Frame, Noel (sponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-23 · cosponsored by Shewmake, Sharon (cosponsor) · sponsorship