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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Concerning the authority of counties, cities, and towns to exceed statutory property tax limitations for the purpose of financing affordable housing for very low-income households and low-income households."
+description: "Concerning the authority of counties, cities, and towns to exceed statutory property tax limitations for the purpose of financing affordable housing for very low-income households and low-income households."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2019-2020"
+identifier: "SB 6212"
+citation: "Washington SB 6212 (2019-2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["HOMES AND HOUSING", "TAXES - PROPERTY"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Das"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 29
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-01-10"
+last_action: "2020-03-31"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/af22ba2c-0467-43eb-bed8-cdb7a7dc09cd"
+source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=6212&year=2019"
+source_hash: "9352ca3946197eca3abada0aa87d8051934297df31f60acb1014aac6e7396f0b"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wa"]
+---
+
+# Washington SB 6212 (2019-2020) — Concerning the authority of counties, cities, and towns to exceed statutory property tax limitations for the purpose of financing affordable housing for very low-income households and low-income households.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2019-20/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/6212.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#35) — **91–6** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#11) — **35–13** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Das — primary (person)
+- Conway — cosponsor (person)
+- Darneille — cosponsor (person)
+- Dhingra — cosponsor (person)
+- Keiser — cosponsor (person)
+- Kuderer — cosponsor (person)
+- Lovelett — cosponsor (person)
+- Nguyen — cosponsor (person)
+- Randall — cosponsor (person)
+- Saldaña — cosponsor (person)
+- Van De Wege — cosponsor (person)
+- Warnick — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilson, C. — cosponsor (person)
+- Zeiger — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-10** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
+- **2020-01-13** First reading, referred to Housing Stability & Affordability. `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-03** HSA - Majority; do pass.
+- **2020-02-03** And refer to Ways & Means. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-04** Referred to Ways & Means.
+- **2020-02-10** WM - Majority; without recommendation.
+- **2020-02-10** Minority; do not pass.
+- **2020-02-11** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
+- **2020-02-13** Placed on second reading consent calendar.
+- **2020-02-14** Placed on second reading.
+- **2020-02-19** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
+- **2020-02-19** Third reading, passed; yeas, 35; nays, 13; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-24** First reading, referred to Finance. `reading-1`
+- **2020-03-02** FIN - Majority; do pass.
+- **2020-03-03** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
+- **2020-03-06** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading.
+- **2020-03-06** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
+- **2020-03-06** Third reading, passed; yeas, 91; nays, 6; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
+- **2020-03-09** President signed. `passage`
+- **2020-03-10** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2020-03-11** Delivered to Governor.
+- **2020-03-31** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2020-03-31** Chapter 253, 2020 Laws. `became-law`
+- **2020-03-31** Effective date 10/1/2020. `became-law`
+- **2020-01-17T13:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Housing Stability & Affordability at 08:00 AM
+- **2020-02-03T18:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Housing Stability & Affordability at 01:30 PM
+- **2020-02-10T15:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 10:00 AM
+- **2020-02-27T20:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Finance at 03:30 PM
+- **2020-03-02T13:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Finance at 08:00 AM
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/af22ba2c-0467-43eb-bed8-cdb7a7dc09cd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
+