republic-os/legislation/us/states/wa/2025-2026/hb-1696.md

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Bill	Modifying the covenant homeownership program.	Modifying the covenant homeownership program.	us/states/wa	Washington Legislature	2025-2026	HB 1696	Washington HB 1696 (2025-2026)	bill		enacted	Taylor	4	36	4	2025-01-29	2025-04-22	openstates	ocd-bill/31714924-3946-42aa-aef7-2f5b09b25739	https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=1696&Year=2025&Initiative=false	fc8bb0cc24ce8e406adc257d6a455736a72742dcb21ad78fc13a54dcc393786b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wa

Washington HB 1696 (2025-2026) — Modifying the covenant homeownership program.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Bill (committee substitute) — source
2. Second Substitute Bill (committee substitute) — source
3. Second Substitute Passed Legislature (committee substitute) — source
4. Substitute Bill (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#16) — 57–39 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#18) — 30–19 (pass) · upper
• 173 Couture Pg 7 Ln 18 (#15) — 42–54 (fail) · lower
• 192 Griffey Pg 3 Ln 4 (#14) — 45–51 (fail) · lower

Sponsors

• Taylor — primary (person)
• Berg — cosponsor (person)
• Bergquist — cosponsor (person)
• Bernbaum — cosponsor (person)
• Berry — cosponsor (person)
• Cortes — cosponsor (person)
• Doglio — cosponsor (person)
• Donaghy — cosponsor (person)
• Duerr — cosponsor (person)
• Entenman — cosponsor (person)
• Fey — cosponsor (person)
• Fosse — cosponsor (person)
• Goodman — cosponsor (person)
• Gregerson — cosponsor (person)
• Hill — cosponsor (person)
• Hunt — cosponsor (person)
• Kloba — cosponsor (person)
• Leavitt — cosponsor (person)
• Macri — cosponsor (person)
• Mena — cosponsor (person)
• Nance — cosponsor (person)
• Obras — cosponsor (person)
• Ormsby — cosponsor (person)
• Ortiz-Self — cosponsor (person)
• Parshley — cosponsor (person)
• Peterson — cosponsor (person)
• Pollet — cosponsor (person)
• Ramel — cosponsor (person)
• Reed — cosponsor (person)
• Reeves — cosponsor (person)
• Ryu — cosponsor (person)
• Salahuddin — cosponsor (person)
• Santos — cosponsor (person)
• Scott — cosponsor (person)
• Simmons — cosponsor (person)
• Springer — cosponsor (person)
• Stearns — cosponsor (person)
• Stonier — cosponsor (person)
• Street — cosponsor (person)
• Thomas — cosponsor (person)
• Walen — cosponsor (person)
• Zahn — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-29 First reading, referred to Housing. reading-1
• 2025-02-10 Public hearing in the House Committee on Housing at 1:30 PM.
• 2025-02-18 Executive action taken in the House Committee on Housing at 4:00 PM.
• 2025-02-18 HOUS - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. substitution
• 2025-02-18 Minority; do not pass. committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2025-02-21 Referred to Appropriations. referral-committee
• 2025-02-24 Public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 1:30 PM.
• 2025-02-27 Executive action taken in the House Committee on Appropriations at 9:00 AM.
• 2025-02-27 APP - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. substitution
• 2025-02-27 Minority; do not pass. 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
• 2025-03-06 2nd substitute bill substituted (APP 25). substitution
• 2025-03-06 Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. reading-3
• 2025-03-06 Third reading, passed; yeas, 57; nays, 39; absent, 0; excused, 2. reading-3
• 2025-03-10 First reading, referred to Housing. reading-1
• 2025-03-19 Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Housing at 1:30 PM.
• 2025-03-26 Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Housing at 10:30 AM.
• 2025-03-26 HSG - Majority; do pass. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-26 Minority; do not pass. 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. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-07 Minority; do not pass. committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2025-04-08 Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
• 2025-04-09 Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. reading-2
• 2025-04-14 Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. reading-3
• 2025-04-14 Third reading, passed; yeas, 30; nays, 19; absent, 0; excused, 0. reading-3
• 2025-04-15 Speaker signed. passage
• 2025-04-16 President signed. passage
• 2025-04-17 Delivered to Governor. executive-receipt
• 2025-04-22 Governor signed. executive-signature
• 2025-04-22 Chapter 143, 2025 Laws. became-law
• 2025-04-22 Effective date 7/27/2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/31714924-3946-42aa-aef7-2f5b09b25739. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).