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WA HB2395

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/13/2026

Primary Sponsor

Strom Peterson

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Origin

House of Representatives

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Abutting residential owners may allow "recreational moorage sharing" at their private docks or mooring buoys on state-owned aquatic lands, permitting temporary use by qualified recreational vessels

  • Individual stays limited to 7 consecutive days maximum, with total stays per vessel capped at 90 days per calendar year

  • Annual receipts from moorage sharing cannot exceed three times the owner's documented maintenance costs for the dock or mooring buoy in the preceding 12-month period

  • Compliant recreational moorage sharing does not constitute commercial use of state-owned aquatic lands, create a separate lease/tenancy, or trigger state leasing requirements

  • Adds new definitions for "qualified recreational vessel" (privately owned or charter vessels used solely for nonresidential recreational boating, excluding residential, passenger-for-hire, or industrial vessels) and "recreational moorage sharing"

Legislative Description

Authorizing additional use of certain private recreational docks and mooring buoys.

Last Action

First reading, referred to Environment & Energy.

1/13/2026

Committee Referrals

Environment & Energy1/13/2026

Full Bill Text

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