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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Concerning renters' and mobile home occupants' ability to install portable cooling devices."
+description: "Concerning renters' and mobile home occupants' ability to install portable cooling devices."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
+legislature: "Washington Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "SB 6200"
+citation: "Washington SB 6200 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Slatter"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 30
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2026-01-16"
+last_action: "2026-03-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/12230597-66d4-47b8-8770-d8433739c0ac"
+source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=6200&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
+source_hash: "0c4cf1314659fb1cd80e3c229c3ed91b429900d176cd73bc4af99bd086dbbeb6"
+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 6200 (2025-2026) — Concerning renters' and mobile home occupants' ability to install portable cooling devices.
+
+## 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/Senate%20Bills/6200.htm)
+2. **Engrossed Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/6200-S.E.htm)
+3. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/6200-S.htm)
+4. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/6200-S.PL.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Final Passage as Amended by the House (#20) — **65–28** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#13) — **35–14** (pass) · upper
+- Final Passage as Amended by the House (#22) — **37–12** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Slatter — primary (person)
+- Alvarado — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+- Conway — cosponsor (person)
+- Frame — cosponsor (person)
+- Hasegawa — cosponsor (person)
+- Liias — cosponsor (person)
+- Nobles — cosponsor (person)
+- Riccelli — cosponsor (person)
+- Trudeau — cosponsor (person)
+- Valdez — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-16** First reading, referred to Housing. `reading-1`
+- **2026-01-23** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Housing at 10:30 AM.
+- **2026-01-30** Executive session scheduled, but no action was taken in the Senate Committee on Housing at 10:30 AM.
+- **2026-02-04** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Housing at 10:30 AM.
+- **2026-02-04** HSG - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
+- **2026-02-04** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2026-02-04** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
+- **2026-02-12** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-17** 1st substitute bill substituted (HSG 26). `substitution`
+- **2026-02-17** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
+- **2026-02-17** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-17** Third reading, passed; yeas, 35; nays, 14; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-19** First reading, referred to Housing. `reading-1`
+- **2026-02-23** Public hearing in the House Committee on Housing at 1:30 PM.
+- **2026-02-24** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Housing at 4:00 PM.
+- **2026-02-24** HOUS - Majority; do pass with amendment(s). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-02-24** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2026-02-25** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
+- **2026-03-02** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
+- **2026-03-03** Committee amendment(s) adopted with no other amendments.
+- **2026-03-03** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-03** Third reading, passed; yeas, 65; nays, 28; absent, 0; excused, 5. `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-10** Senate concurred in House amendments.
+- **2026-03-10** Passed final passage; yeas, 37; nays, 12; absent, 0; excused, 0. `passage`
+- **2026-03-11** President signed. `passage`
+- **2026-03-11** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2026-03-12** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-03-24** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2026-03-24** Chapter 184, 2026 Laws. `became-law`
+- **2026-03-24** 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/12230597-66d4-47b8-8770-d8433739c0ac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).
+