Bill · Washington State Legislature · 2023-24

ESHB 2114 — Residential tenants

ESHB 2114 was introduced in the 2023-24 Washington legislative session by Representative Alvarado. It received 3 public hearings and did not become law.

  • 2023-24 session
  • House
  • Did not become law
  • 3 public hearings
  • Sponsor: APP(Alvarado

Source Washington State Legislature web services: legislation, hearings and roll calls · as of 2026-08-07 · introduced 2024-02-03

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Where it stopped

Died

Last recorded action
By resolution, returned to House Rules Committee for third reading.
Position
H Rules 3C — the Legislature's own location code
Last committee
Senate Ways & Means — the last committee with this bill on an agenda
Public hearing
Yes — 3 on record — a public hearing is where testimony is taken; an executive session is where a committee votes

Source WA Legislature legislation service · as of 2026-08-07

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What it would do

The Legislature’s own description. We do not paraphrase legislation.

Improving housing stability for tenants subject to the residential landlord-tenant act and the manufactured/mobile home landlord-tenant act by limiting rent and fee increases, requiring notice of rent and fee increases, limiting fees and deposits, establishing a landlord resource center and associated services, authorizing tenant lease termination, creating parity between lease types, and providing for attorney general enforcement.

Legal title AN ACT Relating to improving housing stability for tenants subject to the residential landlord-tenant act and the manufactured/mobile home landlord-tenant act by limiting rent and fee increases, requiring notice of rent and fee increases, limiting fees and deposits, establishing a landlord resource center and associated services, authorizing tenant lease termination, creating parity between lease types, and providing for attorney general enforcement;

Source WA Legislature legislation service · as of 2026-08-07

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The hearing record

Every committee meeting where this bill appeared on the agenda. Public is where testimony is taken; Executive is where the committee votes.

Committee hearing record
Date Type Committee Chamber
2024-01-11 Public House Housing House
2024-01-16 Executive House Housing House
2024-01-24 Public House Appropriations House
2024-02-03 Executive House Appropriations House
2024-02-22 Public Senate Ways & Means Senate

Source WA Legislature committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-07 · 3 public, 2 executive

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The votes

Recorded floor votes. Committee votes are in the hearing record above.

HOUSE · 2024-02-13

1034 Klicker Striker

42

yea

55

nay

1

absent or excused

HOUSE · 2024-02-13

3rd Reading & Final Passage

54

yea

43

nay

1

absent or excused

Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-07 · 2 recorded votes

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Versions

Versions of this bill
Version Substitute Engrossed Status
HB 2114 1st substitute bill substituted.
SHB 2114 1
ESHB 2114 1 1 By resolution, returned to House Rules Committee for third reading.

We do not hold the bill text, so we cannot say what changed. The version list shows that the bill was rewritten and how many times. Comparing the substance of two versions needs the text of each, which we have not ingested. The Legislature publishes both.

Last checked 2026-08-07

Source WA Legislature legislation service · as of 2026-08-07

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What this page will not compute

Each of these is a number a reader might reasonably expect. None of them follow from the records we hold, so we do not publish them.

Who killed it
We can say a bill was never scheduled for a public hearing. We cannot say who decided that. Chairs control agendas, but the record does not attribute a non-decision to a person, and we will not infer one from a committee roster.
Why it died
Withdrawn, superseded by its own companion, folded into a budget, or simply never taken up — all four look identical in the data.
Whether lobbying affected it
Washington collects lobbyist compensation and employer registrations, but none of those filings name a bill. There is no documented link between a lobbying report and a bill number, so we publish none.
What changed between versions
We hold the version list, not the text of each version.
How a member would have voted
Only recorded votes appear here. A member absent from a roll call is recorded as absent, not as opposed.

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Connected records

Every link this page draws, grouped by how well a document supports it.

On the record

  • SPONSORED BY

    APP(Alvarado

    WA Legislature, bill sponsorship record

  • HEARD BY

    House Housing

    WA Legislature, committee agenda

  • HEARD BY

    House Appropriations

    WA Legislature, committee agenda

  • HEARD BY

    Senate Ways & Means

    WA Legislature, committee agenda

Same detail on two records — not a relationship

SHARES A SPONSOR

Other bills APP(Alvarado sponsored in the same session.

A sponsor in common is not a relationship between two bills. Legislators sponsor dozens of unrelated bills a session, and this list cannot be used as a step toward a claim about either one.

Nothing on file

No lobbying edge is published. Washington collects lobbyist filings but none of them name a bill, so there is no documented link to draw. No funding edge either: we do not join campaign money to legislation, because doing so would require inferring intent from two unrelated records.

Source WA Legislature legislation and committee services · as of 2026-08-07

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“ESHB 2114 — Residential tenants,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-10. https://washingtonindependents.org/bill/2023-24-hb-2114/

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Where this page comes from

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WA Legislature legislation service
Bill id, titles, sponsor, introduced date, and the history line and location code we render as its status.
WA Legislature committee hearing records
Every committee agenda this bill appeared on, and whether each was a public hearing or an executive session.
WA Legislature roll call service
Recorded floor votes, member by member.
Outcome
Derived, not published by the Legislature. Enacted means a chapter number or effective date is on record; died is only ever assigned once a session has ended; a sitting session yields pending and no death is asserted.
Not loaded
Bill text, amendments, committee votes as individual member records, testimony, and fiscal notes.