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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Increasing housing options through lot splitting."
+description: "Increasing housing options through lot splitting."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "HB 1096"
+citation: "Washington HB 1096 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Barkis"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 34
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2024-12-19"
+last_action: "2025-05-17"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/17b26b5a-de70-48f4-a682-c735bb188de9"
+source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=1096&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
+source_hash: "fd15588c9f1012e5cf0759de48016c31cfd9ec46f6e030c87c18bd64f650505f"
+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 HB 1096 (2025-2026) — Increasing housing options through lot splitting.
+
+## 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/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1096.htm)
+2. **Engrossed Second Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1096-S2.E.htm)
+3. **Second Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1096-S2.htm)
+4. **Second Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1096-S2.PL.htm)
+5. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1096-S.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#11) — **93–4** (pass) · lower
+- Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#7) — **94–4** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#27) — **43–4** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Barkis — primary (person)
+- Bernbaum — cosponsor (person)
+- Bronoske — cosponsor (person)
+- Callan — cosponsor (person)
+- Connors — cosponsor (person)
+- Couture — cosponsor (person)
+- Doglio — cosponsor (person)
+- Duerr — cosponsor (person)
+- Fitzgibbon — cosponsor (person)
+- Fosse — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Klicker — cosponsor (person)
+- Leavitt — cosponsor (person)
+- Macri — cosponsor (person)
+- Ormsby — cosponsor (person)
+- Reed — cosponsor (person)
+- Richards — cosponsor (person)
+- Ryu — cosponsor (person)
+- Stonier — cosponsor (person)
+- Tharinger — cosponsor (person)
+- Timmons — cosponsor (person)
+- Wylie — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-12-19** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
+- **2025-01-13** First reading, referred to Housing. `reading-1`
+- **2025-01-13** Public hearing in the House Committee on Housing at 1:30 PM.
+- **2025-01-27** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Housing at 1:30 PM.
+- **2025-01-27** HOUS - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
+- **2025-01-27** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2025-01-29** Referred to Appropriations. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-12** Public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 4:00 PM.
+- **2025-02-20** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Appropriations at 4:00 PM.
+- **2025-02-20** APP - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
+- **2025-02-21** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-05** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-06** 2nd substitute bill substituted (APP 25). `substitution`
+- **2025-03-06** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
+- **2025-03-06** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-06** Third reading, passed; yeas, 93; nays, 4; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-10** First reading, referred to Housing. `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-14** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Housing at 10:30 AM.
+- **2025-03-21** Executive session scheduled, but no action was taken in the Senate Committee on Housing at 10:30 AM.
+- **2025-03-26** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Housing at 10:30 AM.
+- **2025-03-26** HSG - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-27** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
+- **2025-04-02** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-14** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
+- **2025-04-14** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-14** Third reading, passed; yeas, 43; nays, 4; absent, 0; excused, 2. `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-27** House concurred in Senate amendments.
+- **2025-04-27** Passed final passage; yeas, 94; nays, 4; absent, 0; excused, 0. `passage`
+- **2025-04-27** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2025-04-27** President signed. `passage`
+- **2025-04-27** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-17** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2025-05-17** Chapter 301, 2025 Laws. `became-law`
+- **2025-05-17** Effective date 7/27/2025. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/17b26b5a-de70-48f4-a682-c735bb188de9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
+