---
type: "Bill"
title: "Clarifying the type of land eligible for purchase under the affordable housing land acquisition revolving loan fund program."
description: "Clarifying the type of land eligible for purchase under the affordable housing land acquisition revolving loan fund program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "HB 1616"
citation: "Washington HB 1616 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HOMES AND HOUSING", "LOW-INCOME PERSONS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McBride"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-25"
last_action: "2017-05-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0e8cc630-6628-407e-9b84-c1887627e4a9"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1616&year=2017"
source_hash: "652a6deb7c7158a0bc0231ec34a56c43bf48fd2a4d0261441385633314c05b14"
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 1616 (2017-2018) — Clarifying the type of land eligible for purchase under the affordable housing land acquisition revolving loan fund program.

## 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/2017-18/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1616.htm)

## Votes

- Final Passage (#32) — **79–19** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#13) — **45–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- McBride — primary (person)
- Jinkins — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Pollet — cosponsor (person)
- Stanford — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-25** First reading, referred to Community Development, Housing & Tribal Affairs (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). `reading-1`
- **2017-02-09** CDHT - Majority; do pass.
- **2017-02-09** Minority; do not pass.
- **2017-02-13** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
- **2017-02-14** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2017-02-28** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2017-02-28** Third reading, passed; yeas, 79; nays, 19; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2017-03-02** First reading, referred to Human Services, Mental Health & Housing. `reading-1`
- **2017-03-22** HSMH - Majority; do pass.
- **2017-03-22** Minority; do not pass.
- **2017-03-27** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2017-03-29** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2017-03-31** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2017-03-31** Third reading, passed; yeas, 45; nays, 1; absent, 0; excused, 3. `reading-3`
- **2017-04-06** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2017-04-06** President signed. `passage`
- **2017-04-18** Delivered to Governor.
- **2017-05-10** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-10** Chapter 274, 2017 Laws. `became-law`
- **2017-05-10** Effective date 7/23/2017. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0e8cc630-6628-407e-9b84-c1887627e4a9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).