---
type: "Bill"
title: "Facilitating municipal annexations."
description: "Facilitating municipal annexations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "HB 1425"
citation: "Washington HB 1425 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Berg"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 32
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-18"
last_action: "2023-05-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/99e1053e-f098-4496-b70a-4ffedeaf1748"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1425&year=2023"
source_hash: "6e9f507a98a10455fc6bb588708c9ed57cc0017724ee03b32a543e88ad3bb638"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wa"]
---

# Washington HB 1425 (2023-2024) — Facilitating municipal annexations.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1425.htm)
2. **Second Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1425-S2.htm)
3. **Second Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1425-S2.PL.htm)
4. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1425-S.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#9) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#19) — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Berg — primary (person)
- Cortes — cosponsor (person)
- Donaghy — cosponsor (person)
- Duerr — cosponsor (person)
- Eslick — cosponsor (person)
- Fosse — cosponsor (person)
- Low — cosponsor (person)
- Ortiz-Self — cosponsor (person)
- Peterson — cosponsor (person)
- Pollet — cosponsor (person)
- Ryu — cosponsor (person)
- Stonier — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2023-01-18** First reading, referred to Local Government. `reading-1`
- **2023-02-01** Public hearing in the House Committee on Local Government at 8:00 AM.
- **2023-02-03** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Local Government at 10:30 AM.
- **2023-02-03** LG - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
- **2023-02-07** Referred to Finance. `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-16** Public hearing in the House Committee on Finance at 1:30 PM.
- **2023-02-21** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Finance at 8:00 AM.
- **2023-02-21** FIN - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
- **2023-02-23** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-01** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2023-03-03** 2nd substitute bill substituted (FIN 23). `substitution`
- **2023-03-03** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-03-03** Third reading, passed; yeas, 96; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 2. `reading-3`
- **2023-03-07** First reading, referred to Local Government, Land Use & Tribal Affairs. `reading-1`
- **2023-03-21** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Local Government, Land Use & Tribal Affairs at 8:00 AM.
- **2023-03-23** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Local Government, Land Use & Tribal Affairs at 10:30 AM.
- **2023-03-23** LGLT - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-23** And refer to Ways & Means. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-24** Referred to Ways & Means. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 12:45 PM.
- **2023-04-04** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 10:00 AM.
- **2023-04-04** WM - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-04** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2023-04-10** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2023-04-19** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-19** Third reading, passed; yeas, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-20** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2023-04-21** President signed. `passage`
- **2023-04-22** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-09** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-09** Chapter 351, 2023 Laws. `became-law`
- **2023-05-09** Effective date 7/23/2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/99e1053e-f098-4496-b70a-4ffedeaf1748`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).