---
type: "Bill"
title: "Ensuring nonprofit housing providers qualify for a property tax exemption when the property is temporarily used for certain community purposes other than affordable housing."
description: "Ensuring nonprofit housing providers qualify for a property tax exemption when the property is temporarily used for certain community purposes other than affordable housing."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "HB 2610"
citation: "Washington HB 2610 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Street"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-01-21"
last_action: "2026-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/181228a1-b882-48fd-bae1-e424738659e1"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=2610&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "6837613c9b1828cd20f433ba2f39c53fd13fe7d25e3ddfb4e978aede66c648cf"
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 2610 (2025-2026) — Ensuring nonprofit housing providers qualify for a property tax exemption when the property is temporarily used for certain community purposes other than affordable 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/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/2610.htm)
2. **Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/2610.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#8) — **88–9** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#9) — **44–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Street — primary (person)
- Cortes — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Mena — cosponsor (person)
- Obras — cosponsor (person)
- Ormsby — cosponsor (person)
- Reed — cosponsor (person)
- Scott — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-21** First reading, referred to Finance. `reading-1`
- **2026-02-04** Public hearing in the House Committee on Finance at 4:00 PM.
- **2026-02-05** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Finance at 8:00 AM.
- **2026-02-05** FIN - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-09** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-16** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2026-02-17** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2026-02-17** Third reading, passed; yeas, 88; nays, 9; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2026-02-19** First reading, referred to Ways & Means. `reading-1`
- **2026-02-26** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 1:30 PM.
- **2026-02-26** WM - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-27** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2026-03-05** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2026-03-06** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2026-03-06** Third reading, passed; yeas, 44; nays, 4; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2026-03-06** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2026-03-09** President signed. `passage`
- **2026-03-10** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-18** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-18** Chapter 102, 2026 Laws. `became-law`
- **2026-03-18** Effective date 6/11/2026*. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/181228a1-b882-48fd-bae1-e424738659e1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).