Growth Management: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026
Legislative staff filed 68 bills from the 2025-26 session under Growth Management. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and bills with a page of their own are linked.
- HB 1010 · Affordable housing, authorizing accessory dwelling units in rural counties
- HB 1039 · Tribes, permitting cities and tribes in certain counties to agree to extend governmental services to tribal property
- HB 1097 · Governmental services, allowing extension into rural areas for certain purposes
- HB 1135 · Compliance, restricting findings of compliance
- HB 1160 · Design review, applying certain limits
- HB 1164 · Housing, expanding urban growth boundaries for
- HB 1175 · Neighborhood cafes and stores, requiring permitting for residential zones
- HB 1183 · Housing, various planning requirements including allowances for insulation and solar panels
- HB 1195 · Housing, permitting for permanent supportive housing, transitional and indoor emergency housing, and indoor shelter
- HB 1206 · Multifamily tax exemption program, authorizing for all counties and removing size constraint
- HB 1235 · Housing, requiring department approval for housing elements to ensure compliance
- HB 1255 · Camps, restrictions and removal grants
- HB 1299 · Parking, limiting minimum requirements
- HB 1345 · Detached accessory dwelling units, allowing outside urban growth areas
- HB 1353 · Detached accessory dwelling units, self-certification
- HB 1438 · Local project review, modifying approval time period
- HB 1443 · Home on wheels, permitting on residential lots and barring common interest community prohibitions
- HB 1491 · Housing, promoting transit-oriented development
- HB 1694 · Real estate sales, local, allowing use for affordable housing and certain facilities for homeless persons
- HB 1695 · Unincorporated areas, including
- HB 1700 · Planning, extending certain deadlines
- HB 1840 · Middle housing, permitting certain authorizations
- HB 1854 · Rural elements, allowing subdivision of land for other family members
- HB 1859 · Affordable housing, modifying density bonus threshold for property owned by religious organizations
- HB 2006 · Industrial land banks, extension for designation of
- HB 2129 · Agritourism authorized for land zoned for agriculture
- HB 2183 · Heat response plans required
- HB 2201 · County and city plans to conform
- HB 2266 · Barring certain prohibitions of transitional housing, emergency housing, et al.
- HB 2269 · Increasing middle housing authorization in certain areas and sewer requirements
- HB 2316 · Shrubsteppe prohibited from being considered wildlife habitat or requiring replacement
- HB 2358 · Urban growth area revisions and critical aquifer areas
- HB 2418 · Permit review processes and time requirements
- HB 2459 · Certain prohibitions on school siting barred
- HB 2480 · Residential use prohibitions barred for commercial and mixed-use development zones
- HB 2573 · Supermarket, full service grocery store, or pharmacies in certain areas required to provide closure notice
- HB 2701 · Process changes to promote affordable housing
- SB 5055 · Agritourism, expanding allowable accessory uses to promote
- SB 5148 · Housing, requiring department approval for housing elements to ensure compliance
- SB 5173 · Comprehensive plans, modifying timeframe for review
- SB 5184 · Parking, limiting minimum requirements
- SB 5197 · Compliance, requiring compliance after determinations of invalidity
- SB 5301 · Tribes, permitting cities and tribes in certain counties to agree to extend governmental services to tribal property
- SB 5332 · Home on wheels, permitting on residential lots and barring common interest community prohibitions
- SB 5374 · Transportation elements, to include affected tribal governments
- SB 5413 · Detached accessory dwelling units, allowing outside of urban growth areas
- SB 5461 · Housing, allowances for limited areas of more intensive rural development
- SB 5470 · Detached accessory dwelling units, allowing outside of urban growth areas
- SB 5471 · Middle housing, permitting certain authorizations
- SB 5497 · Housing, permitting for permanent supportive housing, transitional and indoor emergency housing, and indoor shelter
- SB 5555 · Zoning, certain requirements for housing and mass timber projects
- SB 5558 · Comprehensive plans, extending certain deadlines
- SB 5587 · Affordable housing, funding priorities
- SB 5613 · Residential development, requiring clear and objective standards
- SB 5633 · Boundaries and plats, new chapter standardizing subdivision of land
- SB 5660 · Water, stormwater, and sanitary sewer services, extending
- SB 5679 · Multifamily tax exemption program, authorizing for all counties and removing size constraint
- SB 5699 · Rural elements, circumstances for allowing new commercial or industrial development or redevelopment
- SB 5732 · Housing, requiring tracking and progress in addressing supply
- SB 5733 · Comprehensive plans, increasing frequency of amendments
- SB 5820 · Freight rail dependent use overlay as part of transportation element
- SB 5885 · Affordable housing, modifying density bonus threshold for property owned by religious organizations
- SB 6015 · Permit-ready building plans and model ordinances to be published
- SB 6016 · Urban growth area revisions and critical aquifer areas
- SB 6026 · Residential use prohibitions barred for certain commercial and mixed-use development zones
- SB 6069 · Barring certain prohibitions of transitional housing, emergency housing, et al.
- SB 6274 · Street standards and frontage improvement and infrastructure requirements
- SB 6309 · High capacity transit project permitting for regional transit authority
All topics · All 2025-26 Washington State bills
Source: the Washington State Legislature’s Topical Index. OlympiaTrack is an independent bill-tracking service and is not affiliated with the Legislature.