---
type: "Bill"
title: "Making transportation appropriations for the 2023-2025 fiscal biennium."
description: "Making transportation appropriations for the 2023-2025 fiscal biennium."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "HB 1125"
citation: "Washington HB 1125 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fey"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 32
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-01-04"
last_action: "2023-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7bf41691-47b8-4e27-aa5b-a2ad91f0bafa"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1125&year=2023"
source_hash: "508adcbea9b410ce76272d0bdc7c4c83a3e280c5aae1940507709a216ef78122"
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 1125 (2023-2024) — Making transportation appropriations for the 2023-2025 fiscal biennium.

## 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/1125.htm)
2. **Engrossed Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1125-S.E.htm)
3. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1125-S.htm)
4. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1125-S.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#22) — **42–6** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#1) — **96–1** (pass) · lower
- Final Passage as Recommended by Conference Committee (#22) — **46–3** (pass) · upper
- Final Passage as recommended by the Conference Committee (#8) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Fey — primary (person)
- Donaghy — cosponsor (person)
- Lekanoff — cosponsor (person)
- Paul — cosponsor (person)
- Timmons — cosponsor (person)
- Wylie — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-04** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
- **2023-01-09** First reading, referred to Transportation. `reading-1`
- **2023-01-12** Public hearing in the House Committee on Transportation at 4:00 PM.
- **2023-01-18** Public hearing in the House Committee on Transportation at 4:00 PM.
- **2023-03-27** Public hearing in the House Committee on Transportation at 4:00 PM.
- **2023-03-29** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Transportation at 4:00 PM.
- **2023-03-29** TR - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
- **2023-03-31** Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2023-04-03** 1st substitute bill substituted (TR 23). `substitution`
- **2023-04-03** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
- **2023-04-03** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-03** Third reading, passed; yeas, 96; nays, 1; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-05** Read first time, rules suspended, and placed on second reading calendar. `reading-1`
- **2023-04-05** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
- **2023-04-05** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-05** Third reading, passed; yeas, 42; nays, 6; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-14** House refuses to concur in the Senate amendments. Asks Senate for Conference thereon.
- **2023-04-14** Conference committee appointed. Representatives Fey, Barkis, Paul.
- **2023-04-18** Conference committee request granted.
- **2023-04-18** Conference committee appointed. Senators Liias, Shewmake, King.
- **2023-04-21** Conference committee report; received 3:15 PM 4/21/2023.
- **2023-04-21** Conference committee report; received 3:28 PM 4/21/2023.
- **2023-04-22** Conference committee report adopted.
- **2023-04-22** Passed final passage as recommended by conference committee; yeas, 46; nays, 3; absent, 0; excused, 0.
- **2023-04-22** Conference committee report adopted.
- **2023-04-22** Passed final passage as recommended by conference committee; yeas, 98; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0.
- **2023-04-23** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2023-04-23** President signed. `passage`
- **2023-04-23** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-16** Governor partially vetoed. `executive-veto-line-item`
- **2023-05-16** Chapter 472, 2023 Laws. `became-law`
- **2023-05-16** Effective date 5/16/2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7bf41691-47b8-4e27-aa5b-a2ad91f0bafa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).