---
type: "Bill"
title: "Promoting transit-oriented housing development."
description: "Promoting transit-oriented housing development."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "HB 1491"
citation: "Washington HB 1491 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Reed"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 50
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-21"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6b4281f9-3535-4880-ab9c-d9d93b91a55d"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=1491&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "f64ce736d7c9d3d1ed013e50bb066d0ee9d4e9284c1505edd95970d96b73991b"
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 1491 (2025-2026) — Promoting transit-oriented housing development.

## 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/1491.htm)
2. **Second Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1491-S2.htm)
3. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1491-S.htm)
4. **Third Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1491-S3.htm)
5. **Third Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1491-S3.PL.htm)

## Votes

- Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#14) — **57–39** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#33) — **58–39** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate (#23) — **30–18** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Reed — primary (person)
- Alvarado — cosponsor (person)
- Berry — cosponsor (person)
- Cortes — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Doglio — cosponsor (person)
- Duerr — cosponsor (person)
- Fitzgibbon — cosponsor (person)
- Fosse — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Kloba — cosponsor (person)
- Macri — cosponsor (person)
- Mena — cosponsor (person)
- Nance — cosponsor (person)
- Obras — cosponsor (person)
- Ormsby — cosponsor (person)
- Parshley — cosponsor (person)
- Peterson — cosponsor (person)
- Pollet — cosponsor (person)
- Ramel — cosponsor (person)
- Richards — cosponsor (person)
- Ryu — cosponsor (person)
- Scott — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-21** First reading, referred to Housing. `reading-1`
- **2025-01-28** Public hearing in the House Committee on Housing at 4:00 PM.
- **2025-02-11** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Housing at 4:00 PM.
- **2025-02-11** HOUS - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
- **2025-02-11** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-02-11** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-02-17** Referred to Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19** Committee relieved of further consideration.
- **2025-02-19** Referred to Capital Budget. `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25** Public hearing in the House Committee on Capital Budget at 9:00 AM.
- **2025-02-26** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Capital Budget at 9:00 AM.
- **2025-02-26** CB - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
- **2025-02-26** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-02-27** Referred to Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27** Public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 9:00 AM.
- **2025-02-28** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Appropriations at 9:00 AM.
- **2025-02-28** APP - Majority; 3rd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
- **2025-02-28** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-02-28** Minority; without recommendation. `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`
- **2025-03-05** 3rd substitute bill substituted (APP 25). `substitution`
- **2025-03-05** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-05** Third reading, passed; yeas, 58; nays, 39; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-07** First reading, referred to Housing. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-14** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Housing at 10:30 AM.
- **2025-03-21** Executive session scheduled, but no action was taken in the Senate Committee on Housing at 10:30 AM.
- **2025-03-26** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Housing at 10:30 AM.
- **2025-03-26** HSG - Majority; do pass with amendment(s). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-26** Minority; without recommendation. `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 with amendment(s). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-04-08** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2025-04-11** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2025-04-15** Committee amendment not adopted. `amendment-failure`
- **2025-04-15** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
- **2025-04-15** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-15** Third reading, passed; yeas, 30; nays, 18; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-22** House concurred in Senate amendments.
- **2025-04-22** Passed final passage; yeas, 57; nays, 39; absent, 0; excused, 2. `passage`
- **2025-04-23** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-24** President signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-25** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-13** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-13** Chapter 267, 2025 Laws. `became-law`
- **2025-05-13** 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/6b4281f9-3535-4880-ab9c-d9d93b91a55d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).