---
type: "Bill"
title: "Modifying the covenant homeownership program."
description: "Modifying the covenant homeownership program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "HB 1696"
citation: "Washington HB 1696 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Taylor"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 36
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-29"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/31714924-3946-42aa-aef7-2f5b09b25739"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=1696&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "fc8bb0cc24ce8e406adc257d6a455736a72742dcb21ad78fc13a54dcc393786b"
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 1696 (2025-2026) — Modifying the covenant homeownership 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/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1696.htm)
2. **Second Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1696-S2.htm)
3. **Second Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1696-S2.PL.htm)
4. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1696-S.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#16) — **57–39** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#18) — **30–19** (pass) · upper
- 173 Couture Pg 7 Ln 18 (#15) — **42–54** (fail) · lower
- 192 Griffey Pg 3 Ln 4 (#14) — **45–51** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Taylor — primary (person)
- Berg — cosponsor (person)
- Bergquist — cosponsor (person)
- Bernbaum — cosponsor (person)
- Berry — cosponsor (person)
- Cortes — cosponsor (person)
- Doglio — cosponsor (person)
- Donaghy — cosponsor (person)
- Duerr — cosponsor (person)
- Entenman — cosponsor (person)
- Fey — cosponsor (person)
- Fosse — cosponsor (person)
- Goodman — cosponsor (person)
- Gregerson — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- Kloba — cosponsor (person)
- Leavitt — cosponsor (person)
- Macri — cosponsor (person)
- Mena — cosponsor (person)
- Nance — cosponsor (person)
- Obras — cosponsor (person)
- Ormsby — cosponsor (person)
- Ortiz-Self — cosponsor (person)
- Parshley — cosponsor (person)
- Peterson — cosponsor (person)
- Pollet — cosponsor (person)
- Ramel — cosponsor (person)
- Reed — cosponsor (person)
- Reeves — cosponsor (person)
- Ryu — cosponsor (person)
- Salahuddin — cosponsor (person)
- Santos — cosponsor (person)
- Scott — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons — cosponsor (person)
- Springer — cosponsor (person)
- Stearns — cosponsor (person)
- Stonier — cosponsor (person)
- Street — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Walen — cosponsor (person)
- Zahn — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-29** First reading, referred to Housing. `reading-1`
- **2025-02-10** Public hearing in the House Committee on Housing at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-02-18** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Housing at 4:00 PM.
- **2025-02-18** HOUS - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
- **2025-02-18** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-02-21** Referred to Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-24** Public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-02-27** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Appropriations at 9:00 AM.
- **2025-02-27** APP - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
- **2025-02-27** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-02-28** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2025-03-06** 2nd substitute bill substituted (APP 25). `substitution`
- **2025-03-06** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-06** Third reading, passed; yeas, 57; nays, 39; absent, 0; excused, 2. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-10** First reading, referred to Housing. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-19** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Housing at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-03-26** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Housing at 10:30 AM.
- **2025-03-26** HSG - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-26** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-03-26** And refer to Ways & Means. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Referred to Ways & Means. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-04-07** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-04-07** WM - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Minority; do not pass. `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, 30; nays, 19; 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 143, 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/31714924-3946-42aa-aef7-2f5b09b25739`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).