---
type: "Bill"
title: "Concerning Washington's property assessment appeal procedures."
description: "Concerning Washington's property assessment appeal procedures."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "HB 2479"
citation: "Washington HB 2479 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["TAXES - PROPERTY TAX"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Appleton"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-10"
last_action: "2018-03-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1de16dc4-ef24-43c8-bc9d-706500759a63"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=2479&year=2017"
source_hash: "73437857d7800433efce11bcd5255910e9a723328679729e14a1858ae67b4f79"
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 2479 (2017-2018) — Concerning Washington's property assessment appeal procedures.

## 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/2479.htm)

## Votes

- Final Passage (#4) — **78–20** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#48) — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appleton — primary (person)
- McBride — cosponsor (person)
- Ryu — cosponsor (person)
- Tharinger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-10** First reading, referred to Local Government (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report). `reading-1`
- **2018-01-18** LG - Majority; do pass.
- **2018-01-18** Minority; do not pass.
- **2018-01-22** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
- **2018-02-13** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading.
- **2018-02-14** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2018-02-14** Third reading, passed; yeas, 78; nays, 20; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2018-02-16** First reading, referred to Local Government. `reading-1`
- **2018-02-20** LGOV - Majority; do pass.
- **2018-02-21** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2018-02-26** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2018-02-27** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2018-02-27** Third reading, passed; yeas, 48; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2018-03-03** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2018-03-05** President signed. `passage`
- **2018-03-06** Delivered to Governor.
- **2018-03-09** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-09** Chapter 24, 2018 Laws. `became-law`
- **2018-03-09** Effective date 6/7/2018. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1de16dc4-ef24-43c8-bc9d-706500759a63`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).