As of Thursday, January 9th, 2025, there have been 441 prefiled bills submitted to the Washington State Legislature. Out of 468 prefiled bills, 47 are related to housing. Here are the prefiled housing bills that Washington State’s House and Senate will consider during the 2025 legislative session:
Bill Number | Description |
HB 1003 | Addressing service of notice by mail in cases involving forcible entry and forcible and unlawful detainer. |
HB 1004 | Increasing the personal property tax exemption. |
HB 1007 | Concerning requisites of notice in small claims actions. |
HB 1010 | Authorizing accessory dwelling units in rural areas. |
HB 1015 | Concerning energy labeling of residential buildings. |
HB 1022 | Creating a homes for heroes program. |
HB 1029 | Concerning 3D-printed building construction. |
HB 1040 | Concerning rental income received by people eligible for certain property tax exemption programs. |
HB 1044 | Concerning county fees for administration of the real estate excise tax. |
HB 1061 | Providing additional parking flexibility in residential neighborhoods. |
HB 1075 | Expanding housing supply by supporting the ability of public housing authorities to finance affordable housing developments. |
HB 1080 | Concerning fee disclosure for lodging accommodations. |
HB 1081 | Establishing consumer protections for owners of solicited real estate. |
HB 1088 | Preparing for revisions to the residential landlord-tenant act by creating a task force and establishing a moratorium on new residential landlord-tenant regulations. |
HB 1089 | Concerning eviction reform and tenant safety. |
HB 1094 | Providing a property tax exemption for property owned by a qualifying nonprofit organization and loaned, leased, or rented to and used by any government entity to provide character-building, benevolent, protective, or rehabilitative social services. |
HB 1096 | Increasing housing options through lot splitting. |
HB 1097 | Extending governmental services beyond the urban growth area in specific circumstances. |
HB 1099 | Creating a tenant assistance program. |
HB 1108 | Creating a task force on housing cost driver analysis. |
HB 1115 | Concerning the excise tax treatment of amounts received by title and escrow businesses from clients for remittance to a county filing office for the purpose of recording documents. |
HB 1135 | Ensuring that local government planning complies with the growth management act. |
HB 1144 | Adding an additional superior court judge in Skagit county. |
HB 1160 | Concerning local government design review. |
HB 1164 | Expanding urban growth area boundaries for residential development. |
HB 1165 | Expanding access to the property tax exemption program for seniors, people retired due to disability, and veterans with disabilities. |
HB 1175 | Allowing small business establishments in residential zones. |
HB 1179 | Providing a property tax valuation freeze for senior citizens and disabled veterans. |
HB 1183 | Concerning building code and development regulation reform. |
HB 1191 | Concerning removing vehicle titles from manufactured homes. |
HB 1195 | Concerning compliance with siting, development permit processes and standards, and requirements for permanent supportive housing, transitional housing, indoor emergency housing, or indoor emergency shelters. |
HB 1204 | Concerning senior shared housing in manufactured home communities. |
HB 1206 | Expanding eligibility to utilize the multifamily tax exemption program to all counties required or choosing to plan under RCW 36.70A.040. |
HB 1217 | Improving housing stability for tenants subject to the residential landlord-tenant act and the manufactured/mobile home landlord-tenant act by limiting rent and fee increases, requiring notice of rent and fee increases, limiting fees and deposits, establishing a landlord resource center and associated services, authorizing tenant lease termination, creating parity between lease types, and providing for attorney general enforcement. |
HJR 4200 | Concerning the taxation of personal property. |
SB 5020 | Providing property tax relief to senior citizens. |
SB 5028 | Concerning unlawful camping. |
SB 5057 | Concerning ownership of agricultural real estate. |
SB 5078 | Concerning ownership of agricultural real estate. |
SB 5082 | Creating a housing assistance program for youth enrolled in extended foster care. |
SB 5109 | Concerning the mortgage lending fraud prosecution account. |
SB 5111 | Concerning the excise tax treatment of amounts received by title and escrow businesses from clients for remittance to a county filing office for the purpose of recording documents. |
SB 5132 | Concerning requisites of notice in small claims actions. |
SB 5142 | Providing owners of real estate taken through eminent domain by school districts, or sold under threat of eminent domain, the opportunity to purchase the real estate back when it is not put to intended public use. |
SB 5148 | Ensuring compliance with the housing element requirements of the growth management act. |
SB 5156 | Concerning elevator standards in smaller apartment buildings. |
SB 5184 | Concerning minimum parking requirements. |
SB 5197 | Ensuring that local government planning complies with the growth management act. |