Bill · Washington State Legislature · 2025-26

HB 1438 — Housing permit approval

HB 1438 was introduced in the 2025-26 Washington legislative session by Representative Connors. It has had 1 public hearing and is still before the Legislature.

2025-26 session
House
Still before the Legislature
1 public hearing
Sponsor: Connors

Source Washington State Legislature web services: legislation, hearings and roll calls · as of 2026-08-07 · introduced 2025-01-21

Where it stopped

Pending

Last recorded action: By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
Position: H Local Govt — the Legislature's own location code
Last committee: House Local Government — the last committee with this bill on an agenda
Public hearing: Yes — 1 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 2026-08-07

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

What it would do

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

Ensuring efficient approval of certain housing permit applications.

Legal title AN ACT Relating to ensuring efficient approval of certain housing permit applications;

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

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
2025-01-29	Public	House Local Government	House

Source WA Legislature committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-07 · 1 public, 0 executive

The votes

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

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

Last checked 2026-08-07

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 2026-08-07

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 None of them follow from the records we hold, so we do not publish them.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.

Connected records

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On the record

SPONSORED BY

Connors

WA Legislature, bill sponsorship record
HEARD BY

House Local Government

WA Legislature, committee agenda

Same detail on two records — not a relationship

SHARES A SPONSOR

Other bills Connors 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

Cite this page

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“HB 1438 — Housing permit approval,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-09. https://washingtonindependents.org/bill/2025-26-hb-1438/

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.