E2SHB 1899 — Facilitating reconstruction of communities damaged or destroyed by wildfires.
Signed into law — Chapter 143, Laws of 2024
- Sponsor
- Volz
- Introduced
- February 5, 2024
- Status
- C 143 L 24
- Last action
- Effective date 3/18/2024. (March 18, 2024)
What this bill does
Requires local governments, through June 30, 2025, to allow property damaged or destroyed by wildfire during a declared emergency to be repaired or rebuilt in compliance with the owner's choice of the current State Building and State Energy Codes, or the codes as they existed on January 1, 2023.
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Floor votes
- House — 3rd Reading & Final Passage · February 13, 202496 yea · 1 nay · 1 not voting
- House — Final Passage as Amended by the Senate · March 6, 202496 yea · 0 nay · 1 not voting
- Senate — 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate · March 1, 202445 yea · 1 nay · 3 not voting
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