HB 2029 — Concerning recognition of legal personhood by a governmental entity.
Congress · introduced 2025-02-27
AN ACT Relating to the recognition of legal personhood by a governmental entity;
Latest action: 2026-01-12 — By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
Sponsors
- Abell, Hunter (R, WA-7) — sponsor · 2025-02-27
- Corry, Chris (R, WA-15) — cosponsor · 2025-02-27
- Chase, Rob (R, WA-4) — cosponsor · 2025-02-27
- Ley, John (R, WA-18) — cosponsor · 2025-02-27
- Marshall, Matt (R, WA-2) — cosponsor · 2025-02-27
- Walsh, Jim (R, WA-19) — cosponsor · 2025-02-27
- Dufault, Jeremie (R, WA-15) — cosponsor · 2025-02-27
Action timeline
- · house — First reading, referred to Civil Rights & Judiciary.
- · house — By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
Text versions
No text versions on file yet — same ingest as the action timeline populates these. Each version has direct links to the XML / HTML / PDF at govinfo.gov.
Connected on the graph
Inbound (7)
| date | from | type | amount | role | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-27 | Abell, Hunter | sponsor_of_bill | — | sponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-02-27 | Chase, Rob | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-02-27 | Corry, Chris | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-02-27 | Dufault, Jeremie | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-02-27 | Ley, John | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-02-27 | Marshall, Matt | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-02-27 | 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 | Abell, Hunter (R, state_lower WA-7) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
| 2 | Chase, Rob (R, state_lower WA-4) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 3 | Corry, Chris (R, state_lower WA-15) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 4 | Dufault, Jeremie (R, state_lower WA-15) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 5 | Ley, John (R, state_lower WA-18) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 6 | Marshall, Matt (R, state_lower WA-2) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 7 | 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.
- 2025-02-27 · cosponsored by Dufault, Jeremie (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-02-27 · cosponsored by Marshall, Matt (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-02-27 · cosponsored by Corry, Chris (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-02-27 · cosponsored by Ley, John (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-02-27 · cosponsored by Chase, Rob (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-02-27 · sponsored by Abell, Hunter (sponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-02-27 · cosponsored by Walsh, Jim (cosponsor) · sponsorship