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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Authorizing superior courts to appoint housing court commissioners."
+description: "Authorizing superior courts to appoint housing court commissioners."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "HB 1621"
+citation: "Washington HB 1621 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Macri"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-01-27"
+last_action: "2025-05-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c1dc5dfa-4e86-479f-a007-f3767da0fcb8"
+source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=1621&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
+source_hash: "12882a9d3a0e324277652ee7e3cfd699d2db1b83722ff47a00e65de21853385d"
+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 1621 (2025-2026) — Authorizing superior courts to appoint housing court commissioners.
+
+## 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/1621.htm)
+2. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1621-S.htm)
+3. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1621-S.PL.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#17) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#7) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#20) — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Macri — primary (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Ormsby — cosponsor (person)
+- Peterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Ramel — cosponsor (person)
+- Taylor — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-27** First reading, referred to Civil Rights & Judiciary. `reading-1`
+- **2025-01-29** Public hearing in the House Committee on Civil Rights & Judiciary at 8:00 AM.
+- **2025-02-07** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Civil Rights & Judiciary at 10:30 AM.
+- **2025-02-07** CRJ - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
+- **2025-02-11** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-28** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-03** 1st substitute bill substituted (CRJ 25). `substitution`
+- **2025-03-03** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-03** Third reading, passed; yeas, 97; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-05** First reading, referred to Housing. `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-14** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Housing at 10:30 AM.
+- **2025-03-19** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Housing at 1:30 PM.
+- **2025-03-19** HSG - Majority; do pass with amendment(s). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-20** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
+- **2025-03-21** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-26** Committee amendment(s) adopted with no other amendments.
+- **2025-03-26** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-26** Third reading, passed; yeas, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-21** House concurred in Senate amendments.
+- **2025-04-21** Passed final passage; yeas, 97; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1. `passage`
+- **2025-04-22** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2025-04-23** President signed. `passage`
+- **2025-04-24** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-13** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2025-05-13** Chapter 268, 2025 Laws. `became-law`
+- **2025-05-13** Effective date 5/13/2025. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c1dc5dfa-4e86-479f-a007-f3767da0fcb8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
+