E2SSB 5148 — Ensuring compliance with the housing element requirements of the growth management act.

What this bill does

Allows a fully planning city or county under the Growth Management Act to voluntarily submit its housing element and any housing development regulations to the Department of Commerce (Commerce) for review at any time, but requires a city or county to do so no later than three years after enacting or updating its comprehensive land use plan. Creates a process for review of a housing element and housing development regulations, including certain timelines, application requirements, and criteria that Commerce must consider when issuing a determination of compliance. Prohibits a fully planning city or county from denying an affordable or moderate-income housing development under certain circumstances if its housing element or housing development regulations are not in compliance. Specifies that a fully planning city or county remains eligible for certain grants, loans, pledges, or financial guarantees for public works if it applies to Commerce for review of its housing element and any housing development regulations within the required timelines.

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Floor votes

• House — Final Passage as Amended by the House · April 14, 2025
  78 yea · 19 nay · 1 not voting
• Senate — Final Passage as Amended by the House · April 17, 2025
  48 yea · 1 nay
• Senate — 3rd Reading & Final Passage · March 11, 2025
  46 yea · 2 nay · 1 not voting

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