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WashingtonSB 55952025-2026 Regular SessionSenateWALLET

Establishing shared streets.

Sponsored By: Emily Alvarado (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

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Bill Overview

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

Pedestrians get priority on shared streets

Beginning July 27, 2025, Washington local authorities with shared-street procedures can designate nonarterial roads for shared use. State highways qualify only when they are primary roads through a central business district. Official traffic signs mark streets where people walking, biking, and driving share some or all of the road. Vehicles must yield to pedestrians, bicyclists, and micromobility users; bicyclists and micromobility users must yield to pedestrians. Micromobility includes nonmotorized scooters, motorized foot scooters, and electric personal assistive mobility devices. Local authorities can set a 10 mph maximum after consulting Washington's adopted traffic-device manual. No engineering and traffic study is required when the authority has adopted the required speed-setting procedures. Speed changes take effect when signs are posted; state-highway changes within cities need the state transportation secretary's approval. Local authorities must publish annual website reports on crashes, including those involving pedestrians, bicyclists, and micromobility users, plus speeding and impaired-driving violations.

Shared streets ease walking and riding rules

Beginning July 27, 2025, designated shared streets are exempt from several usual walking, crossing, biking, and passing rules. Pedestrians need not use an available accessible sidewalk, and usual travel-position rules for pedestrians and personal delivery devices do not apply. The specified pedestrian duty to take care to avoid vehicle collisions also does not apply. Crossing-rule exemptions cover yielding to vehicles, crossing between signalized intersections, diagonal crossings, and crossings prohibited by official signs. Bicyclists are exempt from rules about keeping right, positioning within a single lane, and riding no more than two abreast. Drivers are exempt from specified passing rules for pedestrians, bicyclists, animal riders, and users of certain farm equipment. The extra fine for breaking those passing rules does not apply there, but shared-street yielding duties still apply.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Emily Alvarado

    Democratic • Senate

Cosponsors

  • Jamie Pedersen

    Democratic • Senate

  • Marko Liias

    Democratic • Senate

  • Noel Frame

    Democratic • Senate

  • Rebecca Saldaña

    Democratic • Senate

  • Sharon Shewmake

    Democratic • Senate

  • T'wina Nobles

    Democratic • Senate

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 140 • No: 54

Senate vote • 4/17/2025

Final Passage as Amended by the House

Yes: 31 • No: 18

House vote • 4/11/2025

Final Passage as Amended by the House

Yes: 64 • No: 32 • Other: 2

Senate vote • 2/25/2025

3rd Reading & Final Passage

Yes: 45 • No: 4

Actions Timeline

  1. Effective date 7/27/2025.

    5/17/2025Senate

  2. Chapter 300, 2025 Laws.

    5/17/2025Senate

  3. Governor signed.

    5/17/2025legislature

  4. Delivered to Governor.

    4/23/2025legislature

  5. Speaker signed.

    4/22/2025legislature

  6. President signed.

    4/19/2025legislature

  7. Passed final passage; yeas, 31; nays, 18; absent, 0; excused, 0.

    4/17/2025Senate

  8. Senate concurred in House amendments.

    4/17/2025House

  9. Third reading, passed; yeas, 64; nays, 32; absent, 0; excused, 2.

    4/11/2025Senate

  10. Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.

    4/11/2025Senate

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

    4/11/2025Senate

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

    4/10/2025Senate

  13. Referred to Rules 2 Review.

    4/8/2025Senate

  14. TR - Executive action taken by committee.

    4/7/2025Senate

  15. Minority; without recommendation.

    4/7/2025Senate

  16. Minority; do not pass.

    4/7/2025Senate

  17. TR - Majority; do pass with amendment(s).

    4/7/2025Senate

  18. First reading, referred to Transportation.

    2/28/2025Senate

  19. Third reading, passed; yeas, 45; nays, 4; absent, 0; excused, 0.

    2/25/2025Senate

  20. Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.

    2/25/2025Senate

  21. Floor amendment(s) adopted.

    2/25/2025Senate

  22. Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.

    2/19/2025Senate

  23. Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.

    2/17/2025Senate

  24. Minority; without recommendation.

    2/13/2025Senate

  25. Minority; do not pass.

    2/13/2025Senate

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