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WA HB1823

Bill

Status

Engrossed

2/13/2026

Primary Sponsor

Sam Low

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Origin

House of Representatives

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Removes the small city program from the transportation improvement account and eliminates the population threshold (5,000+) for cities to receive funding, allowing all cities to be eligible for transportation improvement account projects

  • Updates terminology throughout the statute from "nonmotorized" to "active transportation" and adds a formal definition covering walking, running, wheelchairs, bicycling, scooters, skateboards, and electric-assisted devices

  • Removes the requirement for board staff expenses to be paid from the public transportation systems account, leaving only the transportation improvement account as the funding source

  • Sets a June 30, 2025 expiration date for the state finance committee's authority to issue any remaining unissued bonds authorized under the urban arterial and transportation improvement bond programs ($250M series I, $60M series II, $100M series III, and $100M general)

  • Repeals RCW 47.26.170 (long-range arterial construction planning/arterial inventory data) and RCW 47.26.300 (bicycle routes legislative declaration), and declares an emergency for immediate effect

Legislative Description

Modifying transportation improvement board provisions.

Last Action

By resolution, returned to House Rules Committee for third reading.

3/12/2026

Committee Referrals

Rules3/12/2026
Rules3/2/2026
Transportation2/17/2026
Rules1/23/2026
Transportation1/12/2026
Rules2/21/2025
Transportation2/4/2025

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