2025 Legislative Session Overview
Welcome to 2025, members, community stakeholders, and tireless affordable housing advocates!
The Housing Development Consortium is excited to announce that the 2025 Washington State legislative session will open on January 13, 2025. This long session is a valuable opportunity to push for transformational change in affordable housing.
Our lead priorities this year are to increase funding for affordable homes, build equitable, sustainable, and complete communities, and ensure housing is healthy, stable, and safe. You can learn more about our full legislative priorities in our legislative agenda.
Your participation in the legislative process is critical to our advocacy. Here’s a few ways you can stay informed and engaged throughout the 2025 legislative session:
- Sign up for Advocacy Alerts: Every Tuesday morning, we will send an update on where our lead and support bills and a list of actions to take.
- Sign In Pro: We will keep our 2025 Legislative Tracker updated throughout session, with links to easily sign in pro on time-sensitive public hearings and send messages to lawmakers.
- Register for our Weekly Legislative Update Calls: Stay tuned—more details coming soon!
HDC is a resource for you to understand and advocate during this legislative session. We need your voice, passion, and advocacy. Below are the key cut-off dates that every bill needs to clear, in order to pass into law. We hope you join us!
Legislative Session Calendar
| January 13, 2025 | First day of session |
| February 21, 2025 | Policy Committee Cutoff. Last day to read in committee reports in house of origin, except House fiscal committees and Senate Ways & Means and Transportation committees. |
| February 28, 2025 | Fiscal Committee Cutoff. Last day to read in committee reports from House fiscal committees and Senate Ways & Means and Transportation committees in house of origin. |
| March 12, 2025 | House of Origin Cutoff. Last day to consider bills in house of origin. |
| April 2, 2025 | Policy Committee Cutoff – Opposite House. Last day to read in committee reports from opposite house, except House fiscal committees and Senate Ways & Means and Transportation committees. |
| April 8, 2025 | Fiscal Committee Cutoff – Opposite House. Last day to read in opposite house committee reports from House fiscal committees and Senate Ways & Means and Transportation committees. |
| April 16, 2025 | Last day to pass opposite house bills, except budgets and matters “necessary to implement budgets.” |
| April 27, 2025 | End of session |
