HB 1225 — 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.
Congress · introduced 2025-01-13
AN ACT Relating to 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;
Latest action: 2026-01-12 — By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
Sponsors
- Couture, Travis (R, WA-35) — sponsor · 2025-01-13
- Connors, April (R, WA-8) — cosponsor · 2025-01-13
- Low, Sam (R, WA-39) — cosponsor · 2025-01-13
- Jacobsen, Cyndy (R, WA-25) — cosponsor · 2025-01-13
- Rude, Skyler (R, WA-16) — cosponsor · 2025-01-13
- McClintock, Stephanie (R, WA-18) — cosponsor · 2025-01-13
- Keaton, Michael (R, WA-25) — cosponsor · 2025-01-13
- Walsh, Jim (R, WA-19) — cosponsor · 2025-01-13
- Ley, John (R, WA-18) — cosponsor · 2025-01-13
- Dufault, Jeremie (R, WA-15) — cosponsor · 2025-01-13
- Barnard, Stephanie (R, WA-8) — cosponsor · 2025-01-13
- Valdez, Michelle (R, WA-26) — cosponsor · 2025-01-13
Action timeline
- · house — Prefiled for introduction.
- · house — First reading, referred to Appropriations.
- · house — By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
Text versions
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Connected on the graph
Inbound (12)
| date | from | type | amount | role | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-13 | Barnard, Stephanie | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-01-13 | Connors, April | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-01-13 | Couture, Travis | sponsor_of_bill | — | sponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-01-13 | Dufault, Jeremie | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-01-13 | Jacobsen, Cyndy | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-01-13 | Keaton, Michael | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-01-13 | Ley, John | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-01-13 | Low, Sam | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-01-13 | McClintock, Stephanie | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-01-13 | Rude, Skyler | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-01-13 | Valdez, Michelle | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-01-13 | Walsh, Jim | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
Who matters
Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.
| # | Member | Role | Speeches | Voted | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Couture, Travis (R, state_lower WA-35) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
| 2 | Barnard, Stephanie (R, state_lower WA-8) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 3 | Connors, April (R, state_lower WA-8) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 4 | Dufault, Jeremie (R, state_lower WA-15) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 5 | Jacobsen, Cyndy (R, state_lower WA-25) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 6 | Keaton, Michael (R, state_lower WA-25) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 7 | Ley, John (R, state_lower WA-18) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 8 | Low, Sam (R, state_lower WA-39) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 9 | McClintock, Stephanie (R, state_lower WA-18) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 10 | Rude, Skyler (R, state_lower WA-16) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 11 | Valdez, Michelle (R, state_lower WA-26) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 12 | Walsh, Jim (R, state_lower WA-19) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
Predicted vote
Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.
0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)
By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no
Activity
Every typed-graph event involving this entity, newest first. Each row is one edge in the influence graph; click the date to jump to its provenance.
- 2025-01-13 · cosponsored by McClintock, Stephanie (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-13 · cosponsored by Jacobsen, Cyndy (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-13 · cosponsored by Dufault, Jeremie (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-13 · cosponsored by Keaton, Michael (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-13 · sponsored by Couture, Travis (sponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-13 · cosponsored by Valdez, Michelle (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-13 · cosponsored by Low, Sam (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-13 · cosponsored by Barnard, Stephanie (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-13 · cosponsored by Connors, April (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-13 · cosponsored by Rude, Skyler (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-13 · cosponsored by Walsh, Jim (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-13 · cosponsored by Ley, John (cosponsor) · sponsorship