WA People
BILL · 2025–26 SESSION

HB 1431: Rental car agreements

Concerning rental car company agreements.

Summary

  • Limits the taxes and government surcharges that may be included and separately stated in a rental car agreement to those that are directly imposed on a rental car customer by a federal, state, or local government agency, unit, or department.
  • Prohibits rental car companies from separately stating a vehicle license cost recovery fee in a rental car agreement or stating or implying to a rental car customer that Washington imposes any vehicle license cost recovery fee on a rental car customer as part of a rental car agreement.
  • Authorizes a rental car company, if a disclaimer is included, to describe in a rental car agreement the rental car company's actual costs in Washington to license, title, register, and plate rental cars and to have rental cars inspected for that calendar year.

From the House Bill Analysis 2025 (HB 1431), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedJan 20, 2025
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Sharon Tomiko Santos (D-37)
Introduced
January 20, 2025 in the House
Last action
January 12, 2026

AN ACT Relating to rental car company agreements;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Sharon Tomiko Santos (D-37)

3 co-sponsors (3 Democrats, 0 Republicans)

Kristine Reeves D-30Gerry Pollet D-46Timm Ormsby D-3

Votes

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

History

  1. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  2. First reading, referred to Consumer Protection & Business.

HB 1431 in other sessions

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

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