BILL · 2025–26 SESSION

HB 2573: Grocery stores & pharmacies

Concerning community access to food, medicine, and health services.

Summary

Requires supermarkets, full service grocery stores, and pharmacies (grocery stores) that meet certain requirements to provide notice prior to closure.
Allows cities or counties to use planning and zoning tools to improve the likelihood that a property previously housing a grocery store will be returned to use as a grocery store.
Adds a new goal to the Growth Management Act for health and food access.
Adds a "healthy communities" mandatory element to the comprehensive plan of the Growth Management Act.
Allows a city to impose an excise tax on the owner of a property zoned for and which previously housed a grocery store.
Allows a city to impose a nuisance fee on vacant property zoned for and which previously housed a grocery store.

From the House Bill Analysis 2026 (HB 2573), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to community access to food, medicine, and health services;

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

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

HB 2573 (2019–20) Public assist./crime victims · Did not pass · died in committee
HB 2573 (2017–18) Alcohol server permits · Did not pass · stalled on the House floor
HB 2573 (2015–16) Teacher shortage · Did not pass · passed House, stalled in Senate
HB 2573 (2013–14) Theatrical wrestling events · Did not pass · passed House, stalled in Senate
HB 2573 (2011–12) Attorney general's office · Did not pass · died in committee
HB 2573 (2009–10) Regional transit facilities · Did not pass · stalled on the House floor
HB 2573 (2007–08) Kidney disease treatment · Did not pass · died in committee
HB 2573 (2005–06) Health info technology · Enacted · Chapter 103, Laws of 2006