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WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Housing Feb 25th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Housing

Transcript Highlights:
  • second substitute House Bill 1859, expanding opportunities for affordable housing developments on properties
  • of affordable units required to qualify for a density bonus for affordable housing development on property
  • the sponsor of an indoor emergency shelter or indoor emergency housing in identifying suitable properties
  • the sponsor of an indoor emergency shelter or indoor emergency housing in identifying suitable properties
  • tax exemption for real property owned by the cooperative that provides housing for low-income households
Bills: HB2664
Committee: Senate Housing
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Housing Jan 27th, 2026 at 04:00 pm

Housing

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm a property manager representing over 2,000 rental households throughout the greater Seattle area.
  • For the record, Jim Henderson with the National Association of Residential Property Managers.
  • Hey, my name is Peter Hanson, and I represent Q in the Tacoma property management.
  • We manage just over 500 properties.
  • In 2025, we lost 45 owners that took rental properties off the market.
Bills: HB2664
Committee: House Housing
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Local Government Jan 27th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Local Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • Eligible uses of grant funds include property acquisition, property rehabilitation, tenant improvements
  • We're 30% of our properties downtown are either undeveloped, underdeveloped.
  • Many of these documents are related to property.
  • A voluntary property title protection program could allow property owners the option to record a property
  • Property taken out from under you.
Bills: HB2313 , HB2451 , HB2298 , HB2566 , HB2517
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Commerce Apr 13th, 2026

Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • licensed real estate appraisers from legal liability regarding safety equipment in residential properties
  • It specifically outlines the responsibilities of property owners when selling or leasing a home to ensure
  • It specifically outlines the responsibilities of property owners when selling or leasing a home to ensure
  • A value based on market data and property characteristics, not to perform code enforcement or safety
  • us from any liability for reporting what's happening in a home, but it just puts it back on the property
Committee: House Commerce
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/18/2026 - House Transportation & Infrastructure

Transportation & Infrastructure

Transcript Highlights:
  • The bill also outlines signage requirements for the owners or owners' agents of private property.
  • The bill also outlines signage requirements for the owners or owners agents of a private property.
  • the amendment also clarifies that the property has The amendment also clarifies that the property has
  • We have a client who has property along the 303. It was a zoning issue.
  • We have a client who has property along the 303. They wanted to go ahead.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Judiciary Jan 27th, 2026

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • that time has become really ineffectual because nobody wants to, and there will be, even sometimes property
  • So that time is not, it delays resolution and incurs costs, which is not to the property owner's benefit
  • reason is that in 2021, when we made revisions to the Burt Harris bill, we allowed the prevailing property
  • owners, should they prevail, to seek their legal fees and so. ...allowed the prevailing property owner
Bills: S0144 , S0192 , S0332 , S0532 , S0620 , S0694 , S0820 , S0888 , S1000 , S1224 , S1396 , S1500
Committee: Senate Judiciary
Summary: The Senate Judiciary Committee met with a quorum present and first postponed SB 532. It then heard and approved SB 620, which requires candidates for federal, state, county, district, judicial, and school board office to disclose any citizenship other than U.S. citizenship. The bill drew one waiver in opposition from Common Cause and passed 8-0. The committee also heard SB 1396 on litigation financing consumer protection. Supporters said it would add transparency, limit funder control over litigation, and require disclosure of foreign entities involved in funding; opponents argued it would create strategic advantages for defendants and could burden plaintiffs. The bill passed 7-2. The committee later approved SB 192, repealing a $1,500 cap on patient funds held in trust by chiropractic physicians, and SB 888, extending limits on indemnity and insurance requirements for design professionals in private contracts; both passed unanimously among those voting. The committee also approved several Judiciary-related measures. CS/SB 332, as amended, creates a narrow temporary public meetings/public records exemption for certain pre-suit Burt Harris litigation strategy discussions by local governments, and passed 7-0. SB 820, which strengthens quarterly reporting requirements for problem-solving courts, passed 10-0. SB 1500, implementing probate process recommendations to raise small-estate thresholds, clarify access to safe deposit boxes, and improve enforcement in uncontested probate, also passed 10-0. SB 144, creating a public records exemption for personal information of current and former Judicial Qualifications Commission employees and their families due to harassment concerns, passed 9-1. The committee then approved CS/SB 1224, as amended, making it a third-degree felony to fraudulently obtain possession of a rental unit through false written statements, counterfeit documents, or impersonation; the bill passed 10-0. SB 1000, setting a floor and ceiling for interest rates on law firm trust accounts tied to the Wall Street Journal prime rate, passed 10-0 after testimony from banking and credit union representatives and support from Senate leadership. Finally, CS/SB 694, providing compensation to the descendants of the Groveland Four, was heard with emotional testimony from family members and advocates describing the wrongful convictions, killings, and decades-long effort for redress; an amendment specified equal shares for the four families, and the bill passed 10-0. Several members requested to be recorded as voting in the affirmative on specific bills before the committee adjourned.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Housing Jan 14th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Housing

Transcript Highlights:
  • , including expanding the definition of underdeveloped property to include any vacant, partially used
  • So there are some projects under the current law, which is only for underutilized property in vacant
  • As a result, Many sites have sat vacant for years, if not decades, and become nuisance properties impacting
  • Some are choosing to use their property to build much-needed housing.
  • In Spokane, there are 500 properties designated as houses of worship.
Bills: SB5884 , SB5885 , SB5937 , SB5938
Committee: Senate Housing
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • the rise in property taxes.
  • We've got to do everything we can to slow the growth of property taxes on every property.
  • Yes, and property taxes for industrial properties were. typically in the top five of the most expensive
  • My revenues from sales tax exceeded property tax.
  • Compared to property taxes? Property taxes are 48% of our general revenue. Revenue sales tax is 27.
Bills: SB9 , SB 9
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • Representative, can you clarify what properties are considered up for consideration to be sold?
  • You have assessors trying to go out and get into property so They can see what's going on in there.
  • It's safer than I'm coming across your property and unannounced into your property to find out if you
  • I can see there's a wall and that would make a big difference in how I assess that property.
  • And so maybe another way to say that is there any need for an unannounced visit on a property.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Education Finance Committee 3/17/26

Education Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • school fund, which is a fund that supports school districts without raising individual income or property
  • school fund, which is a fund that supports school districts without raising individual income or property
  • school fund, which is a fund that supports school districts without raising individual income or property
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  • So, properties on within their borders.
Bills: HF3900
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Consumer Protection & Business Feb 3rd, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Consumer Protection & Business

Transcript Highlights:
  • up specific processes and time frames for when an owner may deny access to a storage unit or sell property
  • Property out of a unit.
  • So for a total of 30 days to get their property out of the self-service storage unit.
  • in which they have to hold on to not just the unit, but as the bill has, the disposal of certain property
  • inside. ...and sell the property inside.
Bills: HB2483 , HB2477 , HB2274 , HB2394 , HB2624 , HB2240