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WashingtonHB 11352025-2026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

Ensuring that local government planning complies with the growth management act.

Sponsored By: Davina Duerr (Democratic)

Became Law

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Faster hearings to enforce growth plans

The Growth Management Hearings Board must hold a compliance hearing after a legal deadline passes. A county or city under an invalidity order can ask for an earlier hearing. The board gives these hearings top priority and issues a finding within 45 days of the motion. People who already have legal standing to challenge the fix can take part. The board can adjust the schedule and set more hearings until the problem is solved.

Tougher steps to prove compliance

The board cannot find a city or county in compliance until it fixes the noncompliant parts of its plan or rules. The fixes must meet the growth management law. In a hearing brought by a petitioner, the board also rechecks its prior order and decides whether to issue a new invalidity ruling if there was not one before.

Noncompliance brings help or sanctions

When the board finds noncompliance, it must send the finding to the governor. The board can refer the case to the Department of Commerce for technical help and training. Or it can recommend that the governor impose sanctions allowed by law. The board must weigh the city’s or county’s efforts to meet its schedule before recommending sanctions.

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Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Davina Duerr

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

  • April Berg

    Democratic • House

  • Beth Doglio

    Democratic • House

  • Debra Lekanoff

    Democratic • House

  • Joe Fitzgibbon

    Democratic • House

  • Lauren Davis

    Democratic • House

  • Lisa Parshley

    Democratic • House

  • Liz Berry

    Democratic • House

  • Natasha Hill

    Democratic • House

  • Sharon Wylie

    Democratic • House

  • Strom Peterson

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 86 • No: 59

Senate vote • 3/26/2025

3rd Reading & Final Passage

Yes: 30 • No: 19

House vote • 3/4/2025

3rd Reading & Final Passage

Yes: 56 • No: 40 • Other: 2

Actions Timeline

  1. Effective date 7/27/2025.

    4/7/2025House

  2. Chapter 17, 2025 Laws.

    4/7/2025House

  3. Governor signed.

    4/7/2025legislature

  4. Delivered to Governor.

    4/2/2025legislature

  5. President signed.

    3/31/2025legislature

  6. Speaker signed.

    3/31/2025legislature

  7. Third reading, passed; yeas, 30; nays, 19; absent, 0; excused, 0.

    3/26/2025House

  8. Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.

    3/26/2025House

  9. Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.

    3/21/2025House

  10. Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.

    3/19/2025House

  11. Minority; without recommendation.

    3/17/2025House

  12. LGV - Majority; do pass.

    3/17/2025House

  13. First reading, referred to Local Government.

    3/6/2025House

  14. Third reading, passed; yeas, 56; nays, 40; absent, 0; excused, 2.

    3/4/2025House

  15. Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.

    3/4/2025House

  16. Floor amendment(s) adopted.

    3/4/2025House

  17. 1st substitute bill substituted.

    3/4/2025House

  18. Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading.

    2/28/2025House

  19. Referred to Rules 2 Review.

    2/14/2025House

  20. LG - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.

    2/12/2025House

  21. Minority; without recommendation.

    2/12/2025House

  22. LG - Executive action taken by committee.

    2/12/2025House

  23. First reading, referred to Local Government.

    1/13/2025House

  24. Introduced

    1/13/2025House

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