Bill

Residential tenants

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.

Sponsors

Representative AlvaradoPrimary

Representative BergSecondaryRepresentative BergquistSecondaryRepresentative BerrySecondaryRepresentative CortesSecondaryRepresentative DavisSecondaryRepresentative DoglioSecondaryRepresentative DuerrSecondaryRepresentative FarivarSecondaryRepresentative FitzgibbonSecondaryRepresentative FosseSecondaryRepresentative GregersonSecondaryRepresentative HillSecondaryRepresentative KlobaSecondaryRepresentative LekanoffSecondaryRepresentative MacriSecondaryRepresentative MenaSecondaryRepresentative NanceSecondaryRepresentative ObrasSecondaryRepresentative OrmsbySecondaryRepresentative Ortiz-SelfSecondaryRepresentative ParshleySecondaryRepresentative PetersonSecondaryRepresentative PolletSecondaryRepresentative RamelSecondaryRepresentative ReedSecondaryRepresentative ScottSecondaryRepresentative SimmonsSecondaryRepresentative StonierSecondaryRepresentative StreetSecondaryRepresentative TaylorSecondaryRepresentative ThaiSecondaryRepresentative TharingerSecondaryRepresentative TimmonsSecondaryRepresentative WylieSecondary

Official bill summary on app.leg.wa.gov →

Current status: 1st substitute bill not substituted.

1. May 7, 2025
   Effective date 5/7/2025.
2. May 7, 2025
   Chapter 209, 2025 Laws.
3. May 7, 2025
   Governor signed.
4. Apr 27, 2025
   Delivered to Governor.
5. Apr 27, 2025
   President signed.
6. Apr 27, 2025
   Speaker signed.
7. Apr 10, 2025
   Third reading, passed; yeas, 29; nays, 20; absent, 0; excused, 0.
8. Mar 12, 2025
   First reading, referred to Housing.
9. Mar 10, 2025
   Third reading, passed; yeas, 53; nays, 42; absent, 0; excused, 3.
10. Jan 13, 2025
    First reading, referred to Housing.

Hearings