---
type: "Bill"
title: "Preventing cruelty to animals."
description: "Preventing cruelty to animals."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "HB 1149"
citation: "Washington HB 1149 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hackney"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 28
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-12-31"
last_action: "2025-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d1166419-e27e-4ad3-bd62-5828f9ab8e60"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=1149&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "f68d5a5688909ee26d7962e8eacb4be937f46f3c36500b484298e66901c8790e"
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 1149 (2025-2026) — Preventing cruelty to animals.

## 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/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1149.htm)
2. **Engrossed Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1149-S.E.htm)
3. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1149-S.htm)
4. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1149-S.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#8) — **47–1** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#3) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#13) — **85–11** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hackney — primary (person)
- Berg — cosponsor (person)
- Farivar — cosponsor (person)
- Fosse — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Kloba — cosponsor (person)
- Leavitt — cosponsor (person)
- Low — cosponsor (person)
- Obras — cosponsor (person)
- Ormsby — cosponsor (person)
- Peterson — cosponsor (person)
- Pollet — cosponsor (person)
- Ramel — cosponsor (person)
- Timmons — cosponsor (person)
- Walen — cosponsor (person)
- Wylie — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-31** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
- **2025-01-13** First reading, referred to Community Safety. `reading-1`
- **2025-01-13** Public hearing in the House Committee on Community Safety at 2:00 PM.
- **2025-01-16** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Community Safety at 8:30 AM.
- **2025-01-16** CS - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
- **2025-01-17** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-05** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2025-02-12** 1st substitute bill substituted (CS 25). `substitution`
- **2025-02-12** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
- **2025-02-12** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-02-12** Third reading, passed; yeas, 96; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 2. `reading-3`
- **2025-02-13** First reading, referred to Law & Justice. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-13** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Law & Justice at 10:30 AM.
- **2025-03-20** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Law & Justice at 10:30 AM.
- **2025-03-20** LAW - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-24** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2025-03-26** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2025-04-03** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
- **2025-04-03** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-03** Third reading, passed; yeas, 47; nays, 1; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-17** House concurred in Senate amendments.
- **2025-04-17** Passed final passage; yeas, 85; nays, 11; absent, 0; excused, 2. `passage`
- **2025-04-18** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-19** President signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-22** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-12** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-12** Chapter 220, 2025 Laws. `became-law`
- **2025-05-12** Effective date 7/27/2025. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d1166419-e27e-4ad3-bd62-5828f9ab8e60`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).