---
type: "Bill"
title: "Prohibiting the use of certain animals in traveling animal acts."
description: "Prohibiting the use of certain animals in traveling animal acts."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "SB 5065"
citation: "Washington SB 5065 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Liias"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 29
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-12-16"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/488d474a-5429-4b2f-9f00-05c3947b61c3"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=5065&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "93b02c7f7d8ee6ef1738670b4e01cb8eda36b69db7c1b3d6e38dbfcd039a5c8d"
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 SB 5065 (2025-2026) — Prohibiting the use of certain animals in traveling animal acts.

## 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/Senate%20Bills/5065.htm)
2. **Engrossed Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5065.E.htm)
3. **Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5065.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#19) — **65–32** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#6) — **30–19** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Liias — primary (person)
- Bateman — cosponsor (person)
- Bateman — cosponsor (person)
- Frame — cosponsor (person)
- Frame — cosponsor (person)
- Krishnadasan — cosponsor (person)
- Krishnadasan — cosponsor (person)
- Liias — cosponsor (person)
- Lovick — cosponsor (person)
- Lovick — cosponsor (person)
- Nobles — cosponsor (person)
- Nobles — cosponsor (person)
- Riccelli — cosponsor (person)
- Riccelli — cosponsor (person)
- Saldaña — cosponsor (person)
- Saldaña — cosponsor (person)
- Stanford — cosponsor (person)
- Stanford — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-16** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
- **2025-01-13** First reading, referred to Law & Justice. `reading-1`
- **2025-01-14** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Law & Justice at 8:00 AM.
- **2025-01-16** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Law & Justice at 10:30 AM.
- **2025-01-16** LAW - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-16** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-01-16** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-01-17** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2025-01-29** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2025-02-07** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
- **2025-02-07** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-02-07** Third reading, passed; yeas, 30; nays, 19; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2025-02-11** First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-06** Committee relieved of further consideration.
- **2025-03-06** Referred to Community Safety. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** Public hearing in the House Committee on Community Safety at 4:00 PM.
- **2025-03-27** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Community Safety at 8:00 AM.
- **2025-03-27** CS - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-03-28** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2025-04-09** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-09** Third reading, passed; yeas, 65; nays, 32; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-14** President signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-15** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-17** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-22** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-22** Chapter 116, 2025 Laws. `became-law`
- **2025-04-22** 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/488d474a-5429-4b2f-9f00-05c3947b61c3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).