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2SHB 1195 — Housing & shelters

2SHB 1195 was introduced in the 2025-26 Washington legislative session by Representative Peterson. It has had 2 public hearings and is still before the Legislature.

  • 2025-26 session
  • House
  • Still before the Legislature
  • 2 public hearings
  • Sponsor: APP(Peterson

Source Washington State Legislature web services: legislation, hearings and roll calls · as of 2026-08-12 · introduced 2025-02-20

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Where it stopped

Pending

Last recorded action
House Rules "X" file.
Position
H Rules X — the Legislature's own location code
Last committee
House Appropriations — the last committee with this bill on an agenda
Public hearing
Yes — 2 on record — a public hearing is where testimony is taken; an executive session is where a committee votes

This session is still sitting. The 2025-26 biennium has not ended, so we will not say this bill died. A bill sitting in Rules today may move next month.

Last checked 2026-08-12

Source WA Legislature legislation service · as of 2026-08-12

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What it would do

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

Concerning compliance with siting, development permit processes and standards, and requirements for permanent supportive housing, transitional housing, indoor emergency housing, or indoor emergency shelters.

Legal title AN ACT Relating to compliance with siting, development permit processes and standards, and requirements for permanent supportive housing, transitional housing, indoor emergency housing, or indoor emergency shelters;

Source WA Legislature legislation service · as of 2026-08-12

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The votes

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

No recorded floor vote. It has not yet reached a floor vote.

Last checked 2026-08-12

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Sponsors

Who put their name to the bill. The Legislature records a prime sponsor on the bill status; the full co-sponsor roster appears only in the introduced bill text, which we have not ingested.

Prime sponsor

APP(Peterson

as printed the sponsor line on the bill status record · introduced in the House. A committee substitute prints the committee here, with the originating member in parentheses.

The co-sponsor roster is not on this page. We hold the prime sponsor the Legislature prints on the bill status, not the list of co-sponsors, which is published only in the introduced bill text we have not ingested. A co-sponsor count here would be a number no record we hold contains.

Source WA Legislature legislation service · as of 2026-08-12

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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
2025-01-21 Public House Housing House
2025-01-30 Executive House Housing House
2025-02-12 Public House Appropriations House
2025-02-20 Executive House Appropriations House

Source WA Legislature committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-12 · 2 public, 2 executive

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What changed between versions

Only one version on file. The bill was never substituted or engrossed, or the legislation service returns only the surviving version for this session — for completed biennia it usually returns the latter.

Last checked 2026-08-12

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Connected records

Every link in this section is an edge in the entity graph: a row in one table, carrying the document that states it. Grouped by how well the record supports it.

Filed · 1

One document states the relation in its own words.

Source Entity graph, synced from the pipeline · as of 2026-08-12 · Votes are in the graph but render as roll-call tables above, not as rows here. Hearings, referrals and companion bills are not in the graph yet.

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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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Common questions

What happened to 2SHB 1195?
2SHB 1195 is still before the Legislature in the 2025-26 session. Its most recent recorded action is: “House Rules "X" file.” No outcome is final while a session is sitting, so this page does not say it passed or died.
Who sponsored 2SHB 1195?
The prime sponsor of record is APP(Peterson, as printed on the bill status. This page does not list co-sponsors — that roster is published only in the introduced bill text, which we have not ingested.
What would 2SHB 1195 do?
In the Legislature’s own description: “Concerning compliance with siting, development permit processes and standards, and requirements for permanent supportive housing, transitional housing, indoor emergency housing, or indoor emergency shelters.” We quote the official language rather than summarising, because a paraphrase of legislation is an interpretation.
Was there a recorded vote on 2SHB 1195?
2SHB 1195 has not reached a recorded floor vote, so no member has a recorded position on it yet.
Did 2SHB 1195 get a public hearing?
Yes — 2 public hearings are on record. A public hearing is where testimony is taken; it is not the committee vote, which happens in an executive session.

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“2SHB 1195 — Housing & shelters,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-12, accessed 2026-08-21. https://washingtonindependents.org/bill/2025-26-hb-1195/

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How this page is built

Every figure above is read from a primary source and rebuilt on a schedule. Nothing here is modelled or inferred; where a source is silent the page says so rather than filling the gap.

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.