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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Expanding opportunities for affordable housing developments on properties owned by religious organizations."
+description: "Expanding opportunities for affordable housing developments on properties owned by religious organizations."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "HB 1859"
+citation: "Washington HB 1859 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Salahuddin"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 29
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-02-06"
+last_action: "2026-03-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8e7acd2c-8bc1-413f-9a47-310a6936aa42"
+source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=1859&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
+source_hash: "35baccd9cc086841f7b0007206bed914da7bb2df4682b7925ef897c2ebe85896"
+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 1859 (2025-2026) — Expanding opportunities for affordable housing developments on properties owned by religious organizations.
+
+## 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/1859.htm)
+2. **Second Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1859-S2.htm)
+3. **Second Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1859-S2.PL.htm)
+4. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1859-S.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#11) — **48–1** (pass) · upper
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#5) — **94–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Salahuddin — primary (person)
+- Callan — cosponsor (person)
+- Doglio — cosponsor (person)
+- Duerr — cosponsor (person)
+- Dufault — cosponsor (person)
+- Gregerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Leavitt — cosponsor (person)
+- Nance — cosponsor (person)
+- Obras — cosponsor (person)
+- Ormsby — cosponsor (person)
+- Parshley — cosponsor (person)
+- Peterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Reed — cosponsor (person)
+- Street — cosponsor (person)
+- Timmons — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-06** First reading, referred to Housing. `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-13** Public hearing in the House Committee on Housing at 8:00 AM.
+- **2025-02-20** Executive session scheduled, but no action was taken in the House Committee on Housing at 8:00 AM.
+- **2025-02-20** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Housing at 6:00 PM.
+- **2025-02-20** HOUS - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
+- **2025-02-21** Referred to Finance. `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-12** By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
+- **2026-01-15** Public hearing in the House Committee on Finance at 1:30 PM.
+- **2026-01-29** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Finance at 1:30 PM.
+- **2026-01-29** FIN - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
+- **2026-02-03** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-06** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-11** 2nd substitute bill substituted (FIN 26). `substitution`
+- **2026-02-11** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-11** Third reading, passed; yeas, 94; nays, 1; absent, 0; excused, 3. `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-13** First reading, referred to Housing. `reading-1`
+- **2026-02-20** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Housing at 10:30 AM.
+- **2026-02-25** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Housing at 10:30 AM.
+- **2026-02-25** HSG - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-02-25** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
+- **2026-02-27** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-28** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-28** Third reading, passed; yeas, 48; nays, 1; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-28** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2026-02-28** President signed. `passage`
+- **2026-03-03** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-03-09** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2026-03-09** Chapter 2, 2026 Laws. `became-law`
+- **2026-03-09** Effective date 6/11/2026. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8e7acd2c-8bc1-413f-9a47-310a6936aa42`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
+