---
type: "Bill"
title: "Providing a property tax exemption for property owned by a qualifying nonprofit organization and loaned, leased, or rented to and used by any government entity to provide character-building, benevolent, protective, or rehabilitative social services."
description: "Providing a property tax exemption for property owned by a qualifying nonprofit organization and loaned, leased, or rented to and used by any government entity to provide character-building, benevolent, protective, or rehabilitative social services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "HB 1094"
citation: "Washington HB 1094 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Walen"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-12-19"
last_action: "2025-04-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9ace22b5-7c07-40dd-a735-cb4566a60fc7"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=1094&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "bf11e5833f69a363eb300ee0dff869100b5169e3c3286c489f61838a9b707166"
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 1094 (2025-2026) — Providing a property tax exemption for property owned by a qualifying nonprofit organization and loaned, leased, or rented to and used by any government entity to provide character-building, benevolent, protective, or rehabilitative social services.

## 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/1094.htm)
2. **Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1094.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#11) — **58–39** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#18) — **37–12** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Walen — primary (person)
- Donaghy — cosponsor (person)
- Lekanoff — cosponsor (person)
- Reeves — cosponsor (person)
- Ryu — cosponsor (person)
- Shavers — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-19** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
- **2025-01-13** First reading, referred to Finance. `reading-1`
- **2025-01-23** Public hearing in the House Committee on Finance at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-02-06** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Finance at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-02-06** FIN - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-06** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-02-10** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-18** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2025-03-12** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-12** Third reading, passed; yeas, 58; nays, 39; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-14** First reading, referred to Ways & Means. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-18** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 4:00 PM.
- **2025-03-18** WM - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-18** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-03-18** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-03-20** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2025-03-21** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2025-03-26** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-26** Third reading, passed; yeas, 37; nays, 12; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-31** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2025-03-31** President signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-07** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-07** Chapter 16, 2025 Laws. `became-law`
- **2025-04-07** 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/9ace22b5-7c07-40dd-a735-cb4566a60fc7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).