ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1688
State of Washington
69th Legislature
2025 Regular Session
By House Local Government (originally sponsored by Representatives Parshley, Duerr, Reed, Ormsby, Hill, and Timmons)
READ FIRST TIME 02/18/25.
AN ACT Relating to electric security alarm systems; adding a new section to chapter 35.21 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 35A.21 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 36.01 RCW; and creating a new section.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The legislature finds that recent changes in alarm system technology can be beneficial for protecting property owners from ongoing theft, and may help to minimize the demand on local government policing and judicial resources. The legislature further finds that state and local codes may not currently regulate electric security alarm systems, and that, in such cases, the application of a statewide standard for installation of such systems would be beneficial to industrial and commercial property owners statewide. It is, therefore, the intent of the legislature to establish a statewide standard for the installation and operation of electric security alarm systems in circumstances in which local governments have not provided alternative regulations.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. A new section is added to chapter 35.21 RCW to read as follows: