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2SHB 1217 — Residential tenants

2SHB 1217 was introduced in the 2025-26 Washington legislative session by Senator Alvarado. It became law.

  • 2025-26 session
  • House
  • Became law
  • 4 public hearings
  • Sponsor: APP(Alvarado

Source Washington State Legislature web services: legislation, hearings and roll calls · as of 2026-09-09 · introduced 2025-02-10

01

Where it stopped

Became law

Last recorded action
1st substitute bill not substituted.
Session law
H not subst — chapter and year in the session laws
Last committee
Senate Ways & Means — the last committee with this bill on an agenda
Public hearing
Yes — 4 on record — a public hearing is where testimony is taken; an executive session is where a committee votes

Source WA Legislature bill history — every row links to the chamber record that establishes it · as of 2026-09-09 · how a stop point is read

02

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 bill digest and text, quoted whole · as of 2026-09-09 · edits none — we write no summary of our own

03

The votes

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

HOUSE · 2025-03-10

3rd Reading & Final Passage

53

yea

42

nay

3

absent or excused

3rd Reading & Final Passage, House — vote by caucus
Caucus Yea Nay Absent or excused Members voting
DDemocratic 53 5 1 59
RRepublican 0 37 2 39
Total 53 42 3 98

98 of 98 seats recorded — the columns add to the chamber.

Members who voted against their caucus majority

Listed because they are the part of the roll call a party-line summary hides. Crossing a caucus is a description of this vote, not a virtue or a betrayal, and we attach no label to it.

  • DDemocratic Bronoske LD 28 NAY
  • DDemocratic Leavitt LD 28 NAY
  • DDemocratic Richards LD 26 NAY
  • DDemocratic Santos LD 37 NAY
  • DDemocratic Walen LD 48 NAY

Full roll call, every member by name

SENATE · 2025-04-10

3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate

29

yea

20

nay

3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate, Senate — vote by caucus
Caucus Yea Nay Absent or excused Members voting
DDemocratic 29 1 0 30
RRepublican 0 19 0 19
Total 29 20 0 49

49 of 49 seats recorded — the columns add to the chamber.

Members who voted against their caucus majority

Listed because they are the part of the roll call a party-line summary hides. Crossing a caucus is a description of this vote, not a virtue or a betrayal, and we attach no label to it.

  • DDemocratic Cleveland LD 49 NAY

Full roll call, every member by name

SENATE · 2025-04-10

345 Shewmake Pg 1 Ln 13

25

yea

24

nay

345 Shewmake Pg 1 Ln 13, Senate — vote by caucus
Caucus Yea Nay Absent or excused Members voting
DDemocratic 6 24 0 30
RRepublican 19 0 0 19
Total 25 24 0 49

49 of 49 seats recorded — the columns add to the chamber.

Members who voted against their caucus majority

Listed because they are the part of the roll call a party-line summary hides. Crossing a caucus is a description of this vote, not a virtue or a betrayal, and we attach no label to it.

  • DDemocratic Cleveland LD 49 YEA
  • DDemocratic Cortes LD 18 YEA
  • DDemocratic Liias LD 21 YEA
  • DDemocratic Lovick LD 44 YEA
  • DDemocratic Salomon LD 32 YEA
  • DDemocratic Shewmake LD 42 YEA

Full roll call, every member by name

SENATE · 2025-04-10

312 Liias Pg 4 Ln 6

25

yea

24

nay

312 Liias Pg 4 Ln 6, Senate — vote by caucus
Caucus Yea Nay Absent or excused Members voting
DDemocratic 6 24 0 30
RRepublican 19 0 0 19
Total 25 24 0 49

49 of 49 seats recorded — the columns add to the chamber.

Members who voted against their caucus majority

Listed because they are the part of the roll call a party-line summary hides. Crossing a caucus is a description of this vote, not a virtue or a betrayal, and we attach no label to it.

  • DDemocratic Cleveland LD 49 YEA
  • DDemocratic Cortes LD 18 YEA
  • DDemocratic Krishnadasan LD 26 YEA
  • DDemocratic Liias LD 21 YEA
  • DDemocratic Salomon LD 32 YEA
  • DDemocratic Shewmake LD 42 YEA

Full roll call, every member by name

SENATE · 2025-04-10

353 Cleveland Pg 21 Ln 8

23

yea

26

nay

353 Cleveland Pg 21 Ln 8, Senate — vote by caucus
Caucus Yea Nay Absent or excused Members voting
DDemocratic 4 26 0 30
RRepublican 19 0 0 19
Total 23 26 0 49

49 of 49 seats recorded — the columns add to the chamber.

Members who voted against their caucus majority

Listed because they are the part of the roll call a party-line summary hides. Crossing a caucus is a description of this vote, not a virtue or a betrayal, and we attach no label to it.

  • DDemocratic Cleveland LD 49 YEA
  • DDemocratic Liias LD 21 YEA
  • DDemocratic Lovick LD 44 YEA
  • DDemocratic Salomon LD 32 YEA

Full roll call, every member by name

HOUSE · 2025-04-23

Concur in Senate Amendment(s)

48

yea

50

nay

Concur in Senate Amendment(s), House — vote by caucus
Caucus Yea Nay Absent or excused Members voting
DDemocratic 9 50 0 59
RRepublican 39 0 0 39
Total 48 50 0 98

98 of 98 seats recorded — the columns add to the chamber.

Members who voted against their caucus majority

Listed because they are the part of the roll call a party-line summary hides. Crossing a caucus is a description of this vote, not a virtue or a betrayal, and we attach no label to it.

  • DDemocratic Bronoske LD 28 YEA
  • DDemocratic Hackney LD 11 YEA
  • DDemocratic Leavitt LD 28 YEA
  • DDemocratic Reeves LD 30 YEA
  • DDemocratic Richards LD 26 YEA
  • DDemocratic Salahuddin LD 48 YEA
  • DDemocratic Santos LD 37 YEA
  • DDemocratic Springer LD 45 YEA
  • DDemocratic Walen LD 48 YEA

Full roll call, every member by name

HOUSE · 2025-04-25

Grant Conference

58

yea

40

nay

Grant Conference, House — vote by caucus
Caucus Yea Nay Absent or excused Members voting
DDemocratic 58 1 0 59
RRepublican 0 39 0 39
Total 58 40 0 98

98 of 98 seats recorded — the columns add to the chamber.

Members who voted against their caucus majority

Listed because they are the part of the roll call a party-line summary hides. Crossing a caucus is a description of this vote, not a virtue or a betrayal, and we attach no label to it.

  • DDemocratic Walen LD 48 NAY

Full roll call, every member by name

HOUSE · 2025-04-27

Adoption as Recommended by the Conference Committee

55

yea

42

nay

1

absent or excused

Adoption as Recommended by the Conference Committee, House — vote by caucus
Caucus Yea Nay Absent or excused Members voting
DDemocratic 55 3 1 59
RRepublican 0 39 0 39
Total 55 42 1 98

98 of 98 seats recorded — the columns add to the chamber.

Members who voted against their caucus majority

Listed because they are the part of the roll call a party-line summary hides. Crossing a caucus is a description of this vote, not a virtue or a betrayal, and we attach no label to it.

  • DDemocratic Bronoske LD 28 NAY
  • DDemocratic Leavitt LD 28 NAY
  • DDemocratic Walen LD 48 NAY

Full roll call, every member by name

HOUSE · 2025-04-27

Final Passage as Recommended by the Conference Committee

54

yea

44

nay

Final Passage as Recommended by the Conference Committee, House — vote by caucus
Caucus Yea Nay Absent or excused Members voting
DDemocratic 54 5 0 59
RRepublican 0 39 0 39
Total 54 44 0 98

98 of 98 seats recorded — the columns add to the chamber.

Members who voted against their caucus majority

Listed because they are the part of the roll call a party-line summary hides. Crossing a caucus is a description of this vote, not a virtue or a betrayal, and we attach no label to it.

  • DDemocratic Bronoske LD 28 NAY
  • DDemocratic Leavitt LD 28 NAY
  • DDemocratic Richards LD 26 NAY
  • DDemocratic Santos LD 37 NAY
  • DDemocratic Walen LD 48 NAY

Full roll call, every member by name

HOUSE · 2025-04-27

Motion to Immediately Transmit to Senate

59

yea

39

nay

Motion to Immediately Transmit to Senate, House — vote by caucus
Caucus Yea Nay Absent or excused Members voting
DDemocratic 59 0 0 59
RRepublican 0 39 0 39
Total 59 39 0 98

98 of 98 seats recorded — the columns add to the chamber.

No member voted against their own caucus’s majority on this motion.

Full roll call, every member by name

SENATE · 2025-04-27

Final Passage as Recommended by Conference Committee

27

yea

20

nay

1

absent or excused

Final Passage as Recommended by Conference Committee, Senate — vote by caucus
Caucus Yea Nay Absent or excused Members voting
DDemocratic 27 2 0 29
RRepublican 0 18 1 19
Total 27 20 1 48

48 of 49 seats recorded. The columns do not add to the chamber: a seat was vacant, or a member was not yet seated. The count is printed as it is filed rather than adjusted to balance.

Members who voted against their caucus majority

Listed because they are the part of the roll call a party-line summary hides. Crossing a caucus is a description of this vote, not a virtue or a betrayal, and we attach no label to it.

  • DDemocratic Cleveland LD 49 NAY
  • DDemocratic Shewmake LD 42 NAY

Full roll call, every member by name

Sources WA Legislature roll-call archive (floor); chamber roster for party · as of 2026-09-09 · rows 11 recorded votes · key member id printed on the roll call, joined to the chamber roster — never a surname · seats the denominator is the constitutional chamber, 98 House and 49 Senate, not our roster · note committee votes are published as sign-off sheets, not roll calls, and are not counted here

04

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(Alvarado

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 2026-09-09

05

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. Anyone may register a position on a bill before its hearing without speaking. Those sign-ins are a public record of who showed up — they are not a poll, not a sample of the state, and not a measure of public opinion. They count the people who knew the hearing was happening.

Committee hearing record
Date Type Committee Chamber
2025-01-13 Public House Housing House
2025-01-20 Executive House Housing House
2025-02-03 Public House Appropriations House
2025-02-10 Executive House Appropriations House
2025-03-19 Public Senate Housing Senate
2025-03-26 Executive Senate Housing Senate
2025-04-04 Public Senate Ways & Means Senate
2025-04-07 Executive Senate Ways & Means Senate

House Housing, public hearing · 2025-01-13

Con 3,804
Pro 4,031
Other 53

7,888 sign-ins · 194 testified in person · bars share one scale, longest = 5,250

House Appropriations, public hearing · 2025-02-03

Con 440
Pro 3,606
Other 16

4,062 sign-ins · 38 testified in person · bars share one scale, longest = 5,250

Senate Housing, public hearing · 2025-03-19

Con 4,137
Pro 5,250
Other 58

9,445 sign-ins · 139 testified in person · bars share one scale, longest = 5,250

Senate Ways & Means, public hearing · 2025-04-04

Con 3,652
Pro 4,790
Other 34

8,476 sign-ins · 78 testified in person · bars share one scale, longest = 5,250

Source WA Legislature committee hearing records and committee sign-in (CSI) sheets · as of 2026-09-09 · rows 4 public, 4 executive · sign-ins 29,871, counted per hearing from the committee sign-in sheets; names are on the sheet and are not published · note a sign-in is a position registered before the hearing, in person or online; it is not testimony and not a vote · how hearings are read

06

What changed between versions

Versions of this bill
Version Substitute Engrossed Status
HB 1217 — — —
EHB 1217 — 1 Effective date 5/7/2025.
SHB 1217 1 — 1st substitute bill not substituted.
2SHB 1217 2 — 1st substitute bill not substituted.

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 2026-09-09

Source WA Legislature bill text archive, every version · as of 2026-09-09 · note versions are listed, not compared — a field-by-field diff is prepared by a person or not at all

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Connected records

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Joined by us, on a stated key · 1

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Checked 2026-09-09

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Who killed it
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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
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What changed between versions
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How a member would have voted
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Sign-ins as public opinion
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Common questions

What happened to 2SHB 1217?
2SHB 1217 became law. The Legislature’s status record places it at “H not subst” — its chapter and year in the session laws.
Who sponsored 2SHB 1217?
The prime sponsor of record is APP(Alvarado, 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 1217 do?
In the Legislature’s own description: “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.” We quote the official language rather than summarising, because a paraphrase of legislation is an interpretation.
Was there a recorded vote on 2SHB 1217?
Yes. 11 recorded floor votes appear on this page, member counts and all. Committee votes are held separately as scanned sign-off sheets and are not counted here.
Did 2SHB 1217 get a public hearing?
Yes — 4 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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