Status of affordable housing bills at cutoff

by <a href="mailto:carls@awcnet.org">Carl Schroeder</a>, <a href="mailto:shannonm@awcnet.org">Shannon McClelland</a> | Mar 04, 2019
The following housing bills that we have reported on have advanced out of committee (or are have an impact on the budget) and are awaiting floor action.

The following housing bills that we have reported on have advanced out of committee (or have an impact on the budget) and are awaiting floor action.

  • HB 1105 – Protecting taxpayers from home foreclosure
  • HB 1107 – Concerning nonprofit homeownership development
  • HB 1168 – Concerning sales and use and excise tax exemptions for self-help housing development
  • HB 1181 – Providing property tax relief for senior citizens and qualifying veterans
  • HB 1207 – Concerning manufactured housing communities
  • HB 1219 – Providing cities and counties authority to use real estate excise taxes to support affordable housing and homelessness projects
  • HB 1290 – Concerning reviews of voluntary cleanups
  • HB 1377 – Concerning requiring cities to offer a density bonus for affordable housing development on religious organization property
  • HB 1406 – Encouraging investments in affordable and supportive housing
  • HB 1576 – Concerning condominium liability
  • HB 1590 – Allowing the local sales and use tax for affordable housing to be imposed by a councilmanic authority
  • HB 1797 – Concerning local governments planning and zoning for accessory dwelling units
  • HB 1798 – Concerning short-term rentals
  • HB 1923 – Increasing urban residential building capacity
  • SB 5025 – Creating sales and use and excise tax exemptions for self-help housing development
  • SB 5334 – Concerning the Washington uniform common interest ownership act
  • SB 5357 – Authorizing cities and counties to impose additional taxes for affordable housing
  • SB 5358 – Concerning affordable housing development on religious organization property
  • SB 5363 – Extending the property tax exemption for new and rehabilitated multiple-unit dwellings in urban centers
  • SB 5366 – Expanding the property tax exemption for new and rehabilitated multiple-unit dwellings in urban centers
  • SB 5372 – Concerning local project review undertaken under chapter 36.70B RCW
  • SB 5382 – Concerning tiny houses serving as accessory dwelling units
  • SB 5383 – Concerning tiny houses
  • SB 5384 – Concerning the location of tiny house communities
  • SB 5390 – Providing property tax relief to preserve home ownership
  • SB 5646 – Encouraging investments in affordable and supportive housing
  • SB 5788 – Concerning local government infrastructure funding
  • SB 5812 – Concerning local governments planning and zoning for accessory dwelling units
  • SB 5951 – Concerning tax incentives to encourage residential and mixed-use development in urban infill areas

These are the bills that we have reported on but will not advance this session:

HB 1044

Concerning senior citizen property taxes

Dead

HB 1090

Providing property tax relief to senior citizens

Dead

HB 1206

Concerning park models, tiny homes, and manufactured homes

Dead

HB 1306

Condominium warranties

Dead

HB 1320

Concerning property tax exemptions for service-connected disabled veterans and senior citizens

Dead

HB 1493

Authorizing cities and counties to impose additional taxes for affordable housing

Dead

SHB 1581

Funding local housing trust fund programs in certain cities

Dead

SHB 1680

Concerning local government infrastructure funding

Dead

HB 1690

Concerning short subdivisions

Dead

HB 1921

Addressing the regressive nature of the Washington state housing market

Dead

SB 5289

Nonprofit homeownership development

Dead

HB 1921

Addressing the regressive nature of the Washington state housing market

Dead

SB 5440

Concerning the housing element of comprehensive plans required under the growth management act

Dead

SB 5802

Establishing housing affordability zones

Dead

SB 5870

Concerning short-term rentals

Dead

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