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HB 1225: Budgeting process

Data last updated: bill actions through Aug 23, 2026 · lobbyist reports through Sep 30, 2026 (read Oct 14, 2026)

Reforming the Washington state budgeting process through requiring prioritized spending on essential state functions, placing limitations on state spending and revenue proposals, and requiring accountability for every dollar spent within the state budget.

Prime sponsor

Travis Couture

Introduced

Jan 13, 2025

Status

By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status. (Jan 12, 2026)

The Legislature's page

HB 1225 on leg.wa.gov

Floor votes

No floor roll call on file (it didn't pass a chamber, or it was decided without one).

Who lobbied on it 0

No lobbyist's monthly report names this bill.

Lobbying reports name a bill number, not a position on it or a version of it. Money: what each employer (as a donor to two or more 2026 candidates) gave to the 2026 campaigns of the members who voted yea or nay on the bill's latest final passage in each chamber.