---
type: "Bill"
title: "Recognizing the fourth Saturday of September as public lands day."
description: "Recognizing the fourth Saturday of September as public lands day."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "HB 1449"
citation: "Washington HB 1449 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["PUBLIC LANDS", "HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Peterson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-22"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d9e220c0-2127-4ec7-80d9-eacb25a66165"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1449&year=2019"
source_hash: "21ca2932ae12572f8f1d128c5e48d8d05a3b4a3dcc0b4125f61f8909b3b7e7fd"
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 1449 (2019-2020) — Recognizing the fourth Saturday of September as public lands day.

## 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/1449.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#43) — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- Final Passage (#13) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Peterson — primary (person)
- Blake — cosponsor (person)
- Chandler — cosponsor (person)
- Chapman — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Doglio — cosponsor (person)
- Dolan — cosponsor (person)
- Fitzgibbon — cosponsor (person)
- Frame — cosponsor (person)
- Gregerson — cosponsor (person)
- Jinkins — cosponsor (person)
- Lovick — cosponsor (person)
- Ormsby — cosponsor (person)
- Ortiz-Self — cosponsor (person)
- Santos — cosponsor (person)
- Stanford — cosponsor (person)
- Tarleton — cosponsor (person)
- Tharinger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-22** First reading, referred to State Government & Tribal Relations. `reading-1`
- **2019-02-22** SGOV - Majority; do pass.
- **2019-02-22** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
- **2019-03-06** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading.
- **2019-03-07** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2019-03-07** Third reading, passed; yeas, 97; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2019-03-09** First reading, referred to State Government, Tribal Relations & Elections. `reading-1`
- **2019-03-20** SGTE - Majority; do pass.
- **2019-03-21** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2019-04-11** Placed on second reading consent calendar.
- **2019-04-15** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2019-04-15** Third reading, passed; yeas, 48; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2019-04-18** 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 224, 2019 Laws. `became-law`
- **2019-04-30** Effective date 7/28/2019. `became-law`
- **2019-02-12T18:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations at 01:30 PM
- **2019-02-22T13:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations at 08:00 AM
- **2019-03-15T17:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on State Government, Tribal Relations & Elections at 01:30 PM
- **2019-03-20T12:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on State Government, Tribal Relations & Elections at 08:00 AM

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d9e220c0-2127-4ec7-80d9-eacb25a66165`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).