republic-os/legislation/us/states/wa/2025-2026/hb-1163.md

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Bill	Enhancing requirements relating to the purchase, transfer, and possession of firearms.	Enhancing requirements relating to the purchase, transfer, and possession of firearms.	us/states/wa	Washington Legislature	2025-2026	HB 1163	Washington HB 1163 (2025-2026)	bill		enacted	Berry	5	42	3	2025-01-06	2025-05-20	openstates	ocd-bill/b5fdf857-f9c7-4d9e-82cc-eb0f01ef96da	https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=1163&Year=2025&Initiative=false	a206c1572d0f4f162418fce4d123d3326c1c5a31061b874155e5e25c54466596	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wa

Washington HB 1163 (2025-2026) — Enhancing requirements relating to the purchase, transfer, and possession of firearms.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Bill (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed Second Substitute Bill (committee substitute) — source
3. Second Substitute Bill (committee substitute) — source
4. Second Substitute Passed Legislature (committee substitute) — source
5. Substitute Bill (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#26) — 29–19 (pass) · upper
• Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#37) — 57–39 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#1) — 58–38 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Berry — primary (person)
• Alvarado — cosponsor (person)
• Berg — cosponsor (person)
• Callan — cosponsor (person)
• Cortes — cosponsor (person)
• Davis — cosponsor (person)
• Doglio — cosponsor (person)
• Duerr — cosponsor (person)
• Farivar — cosponsor (person)
• Fey — cosponsor (person)
• Fitzgibbon — cosponsor (person)
• Fosse — cosponsor (person)
• Goodman — cosponsor (person)
• Gregerson — cosponsor (person)
• Hill — cosponsor (person)
• Kloba — cosponsor (person)
• Macri — cosponsor (person)
• Mena — cosponsor (person)
• Obras — cosponsor (person)
• Parshley — cosponsor (person)
• Peterson — cosponsor (person)
• Pollet — cosponsor (person)
• Ramel — cosponsor (person)
• Reed — cosponsor (person)
• Ryu — cosponsor (person)
• Salahuddin — cosponsor (person)
• Simmons — cosponsor (person)
• Street — cosponsor (person)
• Taylor — cosponsor (person)
• Tharinger — cosponsor (person)
• Walen — cosponsor (person)
• Wylie — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-06 Prefiled for introduction. filing
• 2025-01-13 First reading, referred to Civil Rights & Judiciary. reading-1
• 2025-01-21 Public hearing in the House Committee on Civil Rights & Judiciary at 10:30 AM.
• 2025-01-31 Executive action taken in the House Committee on Civil Rights & Judiciary at 10:30 AM.
• 2025-01-31 CRJ - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. substitution
• 2025-01-31 Minority; do not pass. committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2025-02-04 Referred to Appropriations. referral-committee
• 2025-02-24 Public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 1:30 PM.
• 2025-02-27 Executive action taken in the House Committee on Appropriations at 9:00 AM.
• 2025-02-27 APP - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. substitution
• 2025-02-27 Minority; do not pass. committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2025-02-28 Referred to Rules 2 Review. referral-committee
• 2025-03-04 Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. reading-2
• 2025-03-07 2nd substitute bill substituted (APP 25). substitution
• 2025-03-08 Floor amendment(s) adopted.
• 2025-03-08 Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. reading-3
• 2025-03-08 Third reading, passed; yeas, 58; nays, 38; absent, 0; excused, 2. reading-3
• 2025-03-11 First reading, referred to Law & Justice. reading-1
• 2025-03-25 Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Law & Justice at 8:00 AM.
• 2025-03-27 Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Law & Justice at 10:30 AM.
• 2025-03-27 LAW - Majority; do pass with amendment(s). committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-27 Minority; do not pass. committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2025-03-27 And refer to Ways & Means. referral-committee
• 2025-03-28 Referred to Ways & Means. referral-committee
• 2025-04-04 Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 1:30 PM.
• 2025-04-07 Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 1:30 PM.
• 2025-04-07 WM - Majority; do pass with amendment(s). committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-07 Minority; do not pass. committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2025-04-07 Minority; without recommendation. committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2025-04-08 Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
• 2025-04-09 Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. reading-2
• 2025-04-14 Committee amendment(s) adopted as amended.
• 2025-04-14 Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. reading-3
• 2025-04-14 Third reading, passed; yeas, 29; nays, 19; absent, 0; excused, 1. reading-3
• 2025-04-22 House concurred in Senate amendments.
• 2025-04-22 Passed final passage; yeas, 57; nays, 39; absent, 0; excused, 2. passage
• 2025-04-23 Speaker signed. passage
• 2025-04-24 President signed. passage
• 2025-04-25 Delivered to Governor. executive-receipt
• 2025-05-20 Governor signed. executive-signature
• 2025-05-20 Chapter 370, 2025 Laws. became-law
• 2025-05-20 Effective date 5/1/2027*. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b5fdf857-f9c7-4d9e-82cc-eb0f01ef96da. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).