What happened to ESHB 1235?

ESHB 1235 did not become law. It stopped in Senate Agriculture, Water, Natural Resources & Parks. The 2023-24 session ended without it passing both chambers, so it is not law.

Who sponsored ESHB 1235?

The prime sponsor of record is AGNR(Chapman, as printed on the bill status. This page does not list co-sponsors — that roster is published only in the introduced bill text, which we have not ingested.

What would ESHB 1235 do?

In the Legislature's own description: “Modifying miscellaneous provisions impacting department of fish and wildlife licensing requirements.” We quote the official language rather than summarising, because a paraphrase of legislation is an interpretation.

Was there a recorded vote on ESHB 1235?

Yes. 1 recorded floor vote appears on this page, member counts and all. Committee votes are held separately as scanned sign-off sheets and are not counted here.

Did ESHB 1235 get a public hearing?

Yes — 2 public hearings are on record. A public hearing is where testimony is taken; it is not the committee vote, which happens in an executive session.

ESHB 1235 — WDFW licensing

ESHB 1235 was introduced in the 2023-24 Washington legislative session by Representative Chapman. It received 2 public hearings and did not become law.

Dying without a vote is the ordinary outcome for a Washington bill, not a scandal and not a failure of any one person. This page shows where it stopped, who was recorded, and what the record does not say.

2023-24 session
House
Did not become law
2 public hearings
Sponsor: AGNR(Chapman

Source Washington State Legislature web services: legislation, hearings and roll calls · as of 2026-08-12 · introduced 2023-01-27

Where it stopped

Died

Last recorded action: House Rules "X" file.
Position: H Rules X — the Legislature's own location code
Last committee: Senate Agriculture, Water, Natural Resources & Parks — the last committee with this bill on an agenda
Public hearing: Yes — 2 on record — a public hearing is where testimony is taken; an executive session is where a committee votes

Source WA Legislature legislation service · as of 2026-08-12

What it would do

The Legislature’s own description. We do not paraphrase legislation.

Modifying miscellaneous provisions impacting department of fish and wildlife licensing requirements.

Legal title AN ACT Relating to modifying miscellaneous provisions impacting department of fish and wildlife licensing requirements;

Source WA Legislature legislation service · as of 2026-08-12

The votes

Recorded floor votes. Committee votes are in the hearing record below.

HOUSE · 2023-03-08

3rd Reading & Final Passage

yea

nay

absent or excused

Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-12 · 1 recorded vote

The hearing record

Every committee meeting where this bill appeared on the agenda. Public is where testimony is taken; Executive is where the committee votes.

Committee hearing record
Date	Type	Committee	Chamber
2023-01-20	Public	House Agriculture & Natural Resources	House
2023-01-27	Executive	House Agriculture & Natural Resources	House
2023-03-20	Public	Senate Agriculture, Water, Natural Resources & Parks	Senate

Source WA Legislature committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-12 · 2 public, 1 executive

What changed between versions

Only one version on file. The bill was never substituted or engrossed, or the legislation service returns only the surviving version for this session — for completed biennia it usually returns the latter.

Last checked 2026-08-12

Connected records

Every link in this section is an edge in the entity graph: a row in one table, carrying the document that states it. Grouped by how well the record supports it.

Composite · 1

Two documents joined on a key, and the key is named here.

DIED IN · biennium 2023-24

Senate Agriculture, Water, Natural Resources & Parks

joined on: cutoff calendar + last journal action

HB 1235 status history, 2023-24 — bill summary, WA State Legislature · as of 2024-02-20

Source Entity graph, synced from the pipeline · as of 2026-08-12 · Votes are in the graph but render as roll-call tables above, not as rows here. Hearings, referrals and companion bills are not in the graph yet.

What this page will not compute

Each of these is a number a reader might reasonably expect. None of them follow from the records we hold, so we do not publish them.

Who killed it: We can say a bill was never scheduled for a public hearing. We cannot say who decided that. Chairs control agendas, but the record does not attribute a non-decision to a person, and we will not infer one from a committee roster.
Why it died: Withdrawn, superseded by its own companion, folded into a budget, or simply never taken up — all four look identical in the data.
Whether lobbying affected it: Washington collects lobbyist compensation and employer registrations, but none of those filings name a bill. There is no documented link between a lobbying report and a bill number, so we publish none.
What changed between versions: We hold the version list, not the text of each version.
How a member would have voted: Only recorded votes appear here. A member absent from a roll call is recorded as absent, not as opposed.

Common questions

What happened to ESHB 1235?: ESHB 1235 did not become law. It stopped in Senate Agriculture, Water, Natural Resources & Parks. The 2023-24 session ended without it passing both chambers, so it is not law.
Who sponsored ESHB 1235?: The prime sponsor of record is AGNR(Chapman, as printed on the bill status. This page does not list co-sponsors — that roster is published only in the introduced bill text, which we have not ingested.
What would ESHB 1235 do?: In the Legislature’s own description: “Modifying miscellaneous provisions impacting department of fish and wildlife licensing requirements.” We quote the official language rather than summarising, because a paraphrase of legislation is an interpretation.
Was there a recorded vote on ESHB 1235?: Yes. 1 recorded floor vote appears on this page, member counts and all. Committee votes are held separately as scanned sign-off sheets and are not counted here.
Did ESHB 1235 get a public hearing?: Yes — 2 public hearings are on record. A public hearing is where testimony is taken; it is not the committee vote, which happens in an executive session.

Cite this page

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“ESHB 1235 — WDFW licensing,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-12, accessed 2026-08-19. https://washingtonindependents.org/bill/2023-24-hb-1235/

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