BILL · 2023–24 SESSION
HB 1402: Urban growth boundaries
Adjusting urban growth boundaries to account for situations where property owners have not developed property as expected in comprehensive plans and development regulations.
Summary
- Allows an urban growth area (UGA) to include an area outside of a city that is not already characterized by urban growth.
- Allows counties and cities to assume that properties within a UGA that are in a flood plain or that have remained undeveloped or underdeveloped for 20 years will not be developed as was anticipated, and to therefore expand the UGA to include more buildable land to satisfy projected future needs.
- Provides that the Growth Management Hearings Board does not have authority to hear or decide petitions related to such UGA expansions.
From the House Bill Analysis 2023 (HB 1402), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗
Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
- IntroducedJan 18, 2023
- Out of committeestopped here
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- Governor
- Law
- Prime sponsor
- Cyndy Jacobsen (R-25)
- Introduced
- January 18, 2023 in the House
- Last action
- January 8, 2024
- Budget
- Has a fiscal note
AN ACT Relating to adjusting urban growth boundaries to account for situations where property owners have not developed property as expected in comprehensive plans and development regulations;
Sponsors
Prime sponsor: Cyndy Jacobsen (R-25)
11 co-sponsors (1 Democrat, 10 Republicans)
Votes
No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.
History
- By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
- First reading, referred to Local Government.
HB 1402 in other sessions
Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.
- HB 1402 (2025–26) Job posting/driver's license
- HB 1402 (2021–22) Prof. licensing review
- HB 1402 (2019–20) Alternate code compliance
- HB 1402 (2017–18) Incapacitated persons/rights
- HB 1402 (2015–16) Prepackaged emer meds in ER
- HB 1402 (2013–14) Insurer state of entry act
- HB 1402 (2011–12) Social card games
- HB 1402 (2009–10) Industrial insurance appeals