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WashingtonSB 52982025-2026 Regular SessionSenateWALLET

Concerning the notice of sale or lease of manufactured/mobile home communities.

Sponsored By: Noel Frame (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Broader privacy claims in tenant purchases

Beginning July 27, 2025, parties in the tenant purchase process can recover actual damages for substantial misuse or disclosure of confidential information. The claim no longer requires showing that the misuse or disclosure violated RCW 59.20.330. Either party can seek damages from the other; the law does not promise a fixed payment.

Mobile-home tenants get a purchase opportunity

Beginning July 27, 2025, the law replaces the old notice process for manufactured and mobile home community sales. It applies when sale or lease talks begin after that date. Owners must notify tenants before marketing or listing the community or its land, and again when considering an offer. Notices must give the service date, explain the possible sale, and explain how tenants can compete to buy. Tenants have 70 days to identify one group representing a majority of home sites, report interest, and provide contact details. Eligible organizations can compete on the same terms and deadlines. Known tenant-group officers also receive notice; government recipients must receive notice within 10 days after tenant and officer notices. Those recipients are Commerce, the local government, the housing authority, and the Washington State Housing Finance Commission. Commerce also receives each tenant notice and must provide information about purchase options. After tenants report interest, owners must allow requests for operating-cost information during a 20-day period. Owners must consider tenant offers fairly, protect confidential financial data, and provide access to information available to commercial buyers. Owners can still pursue other buyers; tenants receive a chance to compete, not a guaranteed purchase. Owners must send Commerce sale updates every six months until the property sells, leaves the market, or is no longer actively listed. Updates include the notice date, sale status, closing or expected closing date, and active price or listing changes. Commerce must post each update within 10 business days.

Changed sale protections for mobile-home tenants

Beginning July 27, 2025, owners selling to outside buyers or eligible organizations must still give the required sale notice. Under the exception in RCW 59.20.340(1), the law removes the added requirement to comply with RCW 59.20.330. A minor notice mistake alone cannot stop a sale or make the owner pay damages or a penalty. The law no longer expressly gives owners that protection for minor mistakes in operating-cost information. Tenants or eligible organizations can seek a court order stopping a sale when substantial violations of the 2023 law prevent competition. Actual damages for owner violations are capped at twice each affected tenant’s monthly rent.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Noel Frame

    Democratic • Senate

Cosponsors

  • Bob Hasegawa

    Democratic • Senate

  • Claire Wilson

    Democratic • Senate

  • Derek Stanford

    Democratic • Senate

  • Javier Valdez

    Democratic • Senate

  • Jessica Bateman

    Democratic • Senate

  • Steve Conway

    Democratic • Senate

  • T'wina Nobles

    Democratic • Senate

  • Yasmin Trudeau

    Democratic • Senate

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 195 • No: 0

Senate vote • 4/18/2025

Final Passage as Amended by the House

Yes: 48 • No: 0 • Other: 1

House vote • 4/9/2025

Final Passage as Amended by the House

Yes: 98 • No: 0

Senate vote • 3/6/2025

3rd Reading & Final Passage

Yes: 49 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Effective date 7/27/2025.

    5/7/2025Senate

  2. Chapter 205, 2025 Laws.

    5/7/2025Senate

  3. Governor signed.

    5/7/2025legislature

  4. Delivered to Governor.

    4/23/2025legislature

  5. Speaker signed.

    4/22/2025legislature

  6. President signed.

    4/19/2025legislature

  7. Passed final passage; yeas, 48; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1.

    4/18/2025Senate

  8. Senate concurred in House amendments.

    4/18/2025House

  9. Third reading, passed; yeas, 98; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0.

    4/9/2025Senate

  10. Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.

    4/9/2025Senate

  11. Committee amendment(s) adopted with no other amendments.

    4/9/2025Senate

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

    4/8/2025Senate

  13. Referred to Rules 2 Review.

    3/26/2025Senate

  14. HOUS - Majority; do pass with amendment(s).

    3/24/2025Senate

  15. HOUS - Executive action taken by committee.

    3/24/2025Senate

  16. First reading, referred to Housing.

    3/8/2025Senate

  17. Third reading, passed; yeas, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0.

    3/6/2025Senate

  18. Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.

    3/6/2025Senate

  19. 1st substitute bill substituted.

    3/6/2025Senate

  20. Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.

    3/5/2025Senate

  21. Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.

    2/28/2025Senate

  22. WM - Majority; do pass 1st substitute bill proposed by Housing.

    2/27/2025Senate

  23. Minority; without recommendation.

    2/27/2025Senate

  24. Minority; do not pass.

    2/27/2025Senate

  25. Referred to Ways & Means.

    2/11/2025Senate

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