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BILL · 2017–18 SESSION · LATEST VERSION SHB 1798

HB 1798: Mobile home communities

Concerning the sale of manufactured/mobile home communities.

Summary

  • Requires landlords, under the Manufactured/Mobile Home Landlord-Tenant Act, to provide a written notice of opportunity to purchase to the Department of Commerce within 10 days after receipt of a bona fide offer to purchase.
  • Encourages landlords to wait to close on the sale of a manufactured/mobile home community until 75 days after delivery of the notice of opportunity to purchase.
  • Extends the complete exemption from the real estate excise tax (REET) for a qualified sale of a manufactured/mobile home community from December 31, 2018, to December 31, 2026.
  • Reduces the REET for sales that are not qualified sales (and therefore not exempt) if the seller provides satisfactory evidence that he or she complied with the notice requirement, indicated that he or she would wait at least 75 days before closing, and did in fact wait that length of time before closing.

From the House Bill Report (HB 1798), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedJan 30, 2017
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Joan McBride (D-48)
Introduced
January 30, 2017 in the House
Last action
February 2, 2018
Companion bill
SB 5627
Budget
Has a fiscal note
Versions
HB 1798, SHB 1798

AN ACT Relating to the sale of manufactured/mobile home communities;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Joan McBride (D-48)

12 co-sponsors (11 Democrats, 1 Republican)

Mia Gregerson D-33June Robinson D-38Sherry Appleton D-23Timm Ormsby D-3Nicole Macri D-43Joyce McDonald R-25Tina Orwall D-33Kristine Reeves D-30Ruth Kagi D-32Mike Sells D-38Steve Bergquist D-11Gerry Pollet D-46

Votes

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

History

  1. Referred to Finance. (SHB 1798)
  2. Referred to Finance.
  3. Minority; do not pass. (SHB 1798)
  4. JUDI - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. (SHB 1798)
  5. JUDI - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
  6. Minority; do not pass.
  7. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  8. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  9. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  10. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  11. First reading, referred to Judiciary (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1798 in other sessions

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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