---
type: "Bill"
title: "Ensuring compliance with the housing element requirements of the growth management act."
description: "Ensuring compliance with the housing element requirements of the growth management act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "SB 5148"
citation: "Washington SB 5148 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bateman"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 42
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-07"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b998ffac-e720-4a46-b6d9-f7df7e0cc4c7"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=5148&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "06637c14f93e4fb283be86c0962fe170208a9daec0eed0199da36ab409735c35"
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 SB 5148 (2025-2026) — Ensuring compliance with the housing element requirements of the growth management act.

## 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/Senate%20Bills/5148.htm)
2. **Engrossed Second Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5148-S2.E.htm)
3. **Second Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5148-S2.htm)
4. **Second Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5148-S2.PL.htm)
5. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5148-S.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#25) — **46–2** (pass) · upper
- Final Passage as Amended by the House (#19) — **48–1** (pass) · upper
- Final Passage as Amended by the House (#20) — **78–19** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bateman — primary (person)
- Liias — cosponsor (person)
- Nobles — cosponsor (person)
- Stanford — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-07** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
- **2025-01-13** First reading, referred to Housing. `reading-1`
- **2025-01-24** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Housing at 10:30 AM.
- **2025-02-07** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Housing at 10:30 AM.
- **2025-02-07** HSG - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
- **2025-02-07** And refer to Ways & Means. `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10** Referred to Ways & Means. `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-18** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 4:00 PM.
- **2025-02-28** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-02-28** WM - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
- **2025-02-28** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-02-28** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2025-03-03** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2025-03-11** 2nd substitute bill substituted (WM 25). `substitution`
- **2025-03-11** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
- **2025-03-11** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-11** Third reading, passed; yeas, 46; nays, 2; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-13** First reading, referred to Housing. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-20** Public hearing in the House Committee on Housing at 8:00 AM.
- **2025-03-26** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Housing at 4:00 PM.
- **2025-03-26** HOUS - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-26** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-04-01** Referred to Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-05** Public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 9:00 AM.
- **2025-04-07** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Appropriations at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-04-07** APP - Majority; do pass with amendment(s). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-04-07** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-04-08** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-11** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2025-04-14** Committee amendment not adopted. `amendment-failure`
- **2025-04-14** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
- **2025-04-14** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-14** Third reading, passed; yeas, 78; nays, 19; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-17** Senate concurred in House amendments.
- **2025-04-17** Passed final passage; yeas, 48; nays, 1; absent, 0; excused, 0. `passage`
- **2025-04-19** President signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-22** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-23** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-13** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-13** Chapter 269, 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/b998ffac-e720-4a46-b6d9-f7df7e0cc4c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).