---
type: "Bill"
title: "Concerning crime committed by business entities."
description: "Concerning crime committed by business entities."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "HB 1252"
citation: "Washington HB 1252 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES", "CORPORATIONS", "BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS", "SENTENCING", "NAMED ACTS", "NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pellicciotti"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 25
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-17"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/36b4e5f0-1b77-4e7d-80c7-2c286d63e061"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1252&year=2019"
source_hash: "a307c883a0f21c0241160e23dec7132b00d2cdda155103bec904835a67dbb0c2"
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 1252 (2019-2020) — Concerning crime committed by business entities.

## 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/2019-20/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1252.htm)

## Votes

- Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#9) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#4) — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- Final Passage (#2) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Pellicciotti — primary (person)
- Appleton — cosponsor (person)
- Bergquist — cosponsor (person)
- Chapman — cosponsor (person)
- Doglio — cosponsor (person)
- Dolan — cosponsor (person)
- Fey — cosponsor (person)
- Fitzgibbon — cosponsor (person)
- Frame — cosponsor (person)
- Goodman — cosponsor (person)
- Hudgins — cosponsor (person)
- Jinkins — cosponsor (person)
- Kilduff — cosponsor (person)
- Klippert — cosponsor (person)
- Leavitt — cosponsor (person)
- Lovick — cosponsor (person)
- Macri — cosponsor (person)
- Orwall — cosponsor (person)
- Peterson — cosponsor (person)
- Pollet — cosponsor (person)
- Riccelli — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Senn — cosponsor (person)
- Slatter — cosponsor (person)
- Stanford — cosponsor (person)
- Stonier — cosponsor (person)
- Tharinger — cosponsor (person)
- Valdez — cosponsor (person)
- Wylie — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-17** First reading, referred to Public Safety. `reading-1`
- **2019-01-31** PS - Majority; do pass.
- **2019-02-04** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
- **2019-02-05** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2019-02-07** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2019-02-07** Third reading, passed; yeas, 96; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 2. `reading-3`
- **2019-02-11** First reading, referred to Law & Justice. `reading-1`
- **2019-03-14** LAW - Majority; do pass with amendment(s).
- **2019-03-15** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2019-03-20** Placed on second reading consent calendar.
- **2019-04-08** Committee amendment(s) adopted with no other amendments.
- **2019-04-08** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2019-04-08** Third reading, passed; yeas, 47; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 2. `reading-3`
- **2019-04-18** House concurred in Senate amendments.
- **2019-04-18** Passed final passage; yeas, 94; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 4. `passage`
- **2019-04-23** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2019-04-25** President signed. `passage`
- **2019-04-26** Delivered to Governor.
- **2019-04-30** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-30** Chapter 211, 2019 Laws. `became-law`
- **2019-04-30** Effective date 7/28/2019. `became-law`
- **2019-01-21T18:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Public Safety at 01:30 PM
- **2019-01-31T13:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Public Safety at 08:00 AM
- **2019-02-25T13:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Law & Justice at 08:30 AM
- **2019-03-14T14:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Law & Justice at 10:00 AM

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/36b4e5f0-1b77-4e7d-80c7-2c286d63e061`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).