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WashingtonHB 10612025-2026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

Providing additional parking flexibility in residential neighborhoods.

Sponsored By: Sam Low (Republican)

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

3 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.

Homeowners can park across driveways

Beginning July 27, 2025, your city or county can let residents park across a residential driveway opening. This only applies where a local ordinance or resolution is in place. The driveway must be 50 feet or shorter, and the car cannot block a sidewalk, another driveway, or the roadway. Without a local rule, the normal ban on blocking driveways still applies.

Clear no parking rules for safety

Beginning July 27, 2025, the law sets clear no‑parking and no‑standing rules to keep people safe. You cannot stop, stand, or park beside a parked car, on sidewalks or planting strips, in intersections or crosswalks, on bridges or in tunnels, on railroad tracks, between the lanes of a divided highway, next to street work that would block traffic, or where signs say “No Stopping.” Keep clear of key spots: at least 15 feet from fire hydrants, 20 feet from crosswalks, 30 feet before stop, yield, or signal signs, 30 feet from the end of a safety zone, and 75 feet from fire station driveways (and 75 feet on the opposite side when posted). You cannot move a vehicle you do not control into a banned spot, and you cannot reserve a public curb space for yourself. Brief pick‑ups or loading are only allowed where signs and these rules permit.

Cities can set parking time limits

Beginning July 27, 2025, cities and counties can set parking time limits and other rules by ordinance in places not already banned by state law. The State Secretary of Transportation can set time limits on state‑managed highways. Local rules can tighten or loosen parking, depending on the block. Follow posted signs.

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Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Sam Low

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

  • Cyndy Jacobsen

    Republican • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 138 • No: 8

Senate vote • 4/14/2025

3rd Reading & Final Passage

Yes: 44 • No: 5

House vote • 3/3/2025

3rd Reading & Final Passage

Yes: 94 • No: 3 • Other: 1

Actions Timeline

  1. Effective date 7/27/2025.

    4/22/2025House

  2. Chapter 137, 2025 Laws.

    4/22/2025House

  3. Governor signed.

    4/22/2025legislature

  4. Delivered to Governor.

    4/17/2025legislature

  5. President signed.

    4/16/2025legislature

  6. Speaker signed.

    4/15/2025legislature

  7. Third reading, passed; yeas, 44; nays, 5; absent, 0; excused, 0.

    4/14/2025House

  8. Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.

    4/14/2025House

  9. Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.

    4/9/2025House

  10. Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.

    4/8/2025House

  11. Minority; without recommendation.

    4/8/2025House

  12. Minority; do not pass.

    4/8/2025House

  13. TRAN - Majority; do pass.

    4/8/2025House

  14. First reading, referred to Transportation.

    3/5/2025House

  15. Third reading, passed; yeas, 94; nays, 3; absent, 0; excused, 1.

    3/3/2025House

  16. Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.

    3/3/2025House

  17. 1st substitute bill substituted.

    3/3/2025House

  18. Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.

    2/18/2025House

  19. Referred to Rules 2 Review.

    2/3/2025House

  20. TR - Executive action taken by committee.

    1/29/2025House

  21. Minority; without recommendation.

    1/29/2025House

  22. TR - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.

    1/29/2025House

  23. First reading, referred to Transportation.

    1/13/2025House

  24. Introduced

    1/13/2025House

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