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type: "Bill"
title: "Providing cities and counties authority to use real estate excise taxes to support affordable housing and homelessness projects."
description: "Providing cities and counties authority to use real estate excise taxes to support affordable housing and homelessness projects."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "HB 1219"
citation: "Washington HB 1219 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Walen"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-17"
last_action: "2019-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/296cdc76-e6c0-469c-8bfd-d6fa70f17423"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1219&year=2019"
source_hash: "7a84da09c59a7aef0dec7279e7b212c6ad664969b4eac190ea5668ae70641a80"
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 1219 (2019-2020) — Providing cities and counties authority to use real estate excise taxes to support affordable housing and homelessness projects.
## 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/2019-20/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1219.htm)
2. **Engrossed Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2019-20/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1219.E.htm)
## Votes
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#20) — **34–13** (pass) · upper
- Final Passage (#13) — **74–24** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Walen — primary (person)
- Doglio — cosponsor (person)
- Fey — cosponsor (person)
- Fitzgibbon — cosponsor (person)
- Frame — cosponsor (person)
- Goodman — cosponsor (person)
- Gregerson — cosponsor (person)
- Jinkins — cosponsor (person)
- Kloba — cosponsor (person)
- Lekanoff — cosponsor (person)
- Macri — cosponsor (person)
- Ortiz-Self — cosponsor (person)
- Slatter — cosponsor (person)
- Springer — cosponsor (person)
- Stanford — cosponsor (person)
- Tharinger — cosponsor (person)
- Valdez — cosponsor (person)
- Wylie — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-01-17** First reading, referred to Housing, Community Development & Veterans. `reading-1`
- **2019-02-05** HOUS - Majority; do pass.
- **2019-02-05** Minority; do not pass.
- **2019-02-07** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
- **2019-02-15** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2019-03-05** Floor amendment(s) adopted.
- **2019-03-05** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2019-03-05** Third reading, passed; yeas, 74; nays, 24; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2019-03-08** First reading, referred to Housing Stability & Affordability. `reading-1`
- **2019-03-25** HSA - Majority; do pass.
- **2019-03-26** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2019-04-02** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2019-04-10** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2019-04-10** Third reading, passed; yeas, 34; nays, 13; absent, 0; excused, 2. `reading-3`
- **2019-04-15** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2019-04-16** President signed. `passage`
- **2019-04-16** Delivered to Governor.
- **2019-04-19** Governor partially vetoed. `executive-veto-line-item`
- **2019-04-19** Chapter 73, 2019 Laws. `became-law`
- **2019-04-19** Effective date 7/28/2019. `became-law`
- **2019-02-01T15:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Housing, Community Development & Veterans at 10:00 AM
- **2019-02-05T15:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Housing, Community Development & Veterans at 10:00 AM
- **2019-03-20T17:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Housing Stability & Affordability at 01:30 PM
- **2019-03-25T17:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Housing Stability & Affordability at 01:30 PM
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/296cdc76-e6c0-469c-8bfd-d6fa70f17423`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).