---
type: "Bill"
title: "Concerning co-living housing."
description: "Concerning co-living housing."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "HB 1998"
citation: "Washington HB 1998 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gregerson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 27
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-12-20"
last_action: "2024-03-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/470ef08c-17e3-479c-a3a1-f3285ebd9419"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1998&year=2023"
source_hash: "1c6e86c8b73840d7b821928581140dd30f3ba186715dfd773a8fa9ee00f04d68"
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 1998 (2023-2024) — Concerning co-living housing.

## 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/2023-24/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1998.htm)
2. **Engrossed Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1998-S.E.htm)
3. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1998-S.htm)
4. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1998-S.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#6) — **44–4** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#1) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#8) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gregerson — primary (person)
- Barkis — cosponsor (person)
- Bateman — cosponsor (person)
- Berry — cosponsor (person)
- Bronoske — cosponsor (person)
- Callan — cosponsor (person)
- Chambers — cosponsor (person)
- Cortes — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Doglio — cosponsor (person)
- Donaghy — cosponsor (person)
- Duerr — cosponsor (person)
- Fitzgibbon — cosponsor (person)
- Graham — cosponsor (person)
- Leavitt — cosponsor (person)
- Macri — cosponsor (person)
- Mena — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Nance — cosponsor (person)
- Ormsby — cosponsor (person)
- Peterson — cosponsor (person)
- Pollet — cosponsor (person)
- Ramel — cosponsor (person)
- Ramos — cosponsor (person)
- Reed — cosponsor (person)
- Riccelli — cosponsor (person)
- Rule — cosponsor (person)
- Ryu — cosponsor (person)
- Santos — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons — cosponsor (person)
- Taylor — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-12-20** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
- **2024-01-08** First reading, referred to Housing. `reading-1`
- **2024-01-08** Public hearing in the House Committee on Housing at 1:30 PM.
- **2024-01-11** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Housing at 8:00 AM.
- **2024-01-11** HOUS - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
- **2024-01-15** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-02** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2024-02-07** 1st substitute bill substituted (HOUS 24). `substitution`
- **2024-02-07** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
- **2024-02-07** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-02-07** Third reading, passed; yeas, 96; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 2. `reading-3`
- **2024-02-09** First reading, referred to Local Government, Land Use & Tribal Affairs. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-15** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Local Government, Land Use & Tribal Affairs at 10:30 AM.
- **2024-02-15** LGLT - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-19** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2024-02-20** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2024-02-22** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
- **2024-02-22** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-02-22** Third reading, passed; yeas, 44; nays, 4; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-04** House concurred in Senate amendments.
- **2024-03-04** Passed final passage; yeas, 97; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1. `passage`
- **2024-03-05** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2024-03-06** President signed. `passage`
- **2024-03-06** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-19** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-19** Chapter 180, 2024 Laws. `became-law`
- **2024-03-19** Effective date 6/6/2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/470ef08c-17e3-479c-a3a1-f3285ebd9419`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).