---
type: "Bill"
title: "Providing additional parking flexibility in residential neighborhoods."
description: "Providing additional parking flexibility in residential neighborhoods."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "HB 1061"
citation: "Washington HB 1061 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Low"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 27
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-12-13"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/63887383-0f2c-4bd8-a540-16857025ba93"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=1061&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "241b2fd1a74aa3bca4792b76e238ffb89580ba6558efea533b38b621462ae718"
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 1061 (2025-2026) — Providing additional parking flexibility in residential neighborhoods.

## 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/1061.htm)
2. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1061-S.htm)
3. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1061-S.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#11) — **94–3** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#14) — **44–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Low — primary (person)
- Jacobsen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-13** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
- **2025-01-13** First reading, referred to Transportation. `reading-1`
- **2025-01-23** Public hearing in the House Committee on Transportation at 4:00 PM.
- **2025-01-29** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Transportation at 4:00 PM.
- **2025-01-29** TR - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
- **2025-01-29** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-02-03** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-18** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2025-03-03** 1st substitute bill substituted (TR 25). `substitution`
- **2025-03-03** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-03** Third reading, passed; yeas, 94; nays, 3; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-05** First reading, referred to Transportation. `reading-1`
- **2025-04-01** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Transportation at 4:00 PM.
- **2025-04-08** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Transportation at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-04-08** TRAN - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-08** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-04-08** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-04-08** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2025-04-09** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2025-04-14** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-14** Third reading, passed; yeas, 44; nays, 5; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-15** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-16** President signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-17** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-22** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-22** Chapter 137, 2025 Laws. `became-law`
- **2025-04-22** Effective date 7/27/2025. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/63887383-0f2c-4bd8-a540-16857025ba93`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).