H-1408.1
SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1899
State of Washington
69th Legislature
2025 Regular Session
By House Housing (originally sponsored by Representatives Zahn, Thomas, Parshley, Simmons, Cortes, Ormsby, Hill, and Macri)
READ FIRST TIME 02/21/25.
AN ACT Relating to the homelessness point-in-time count; and amending RCW 43.185C.030 .
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 43.185C.030 and 2018 c 85 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) The department shall (( annually )) conduct a Washington homeless census or count consistent with the requirements of RCW 43.185C.180 . (( The census shall make every effort to count all homeless individuals living outdoors, in shelters, and in transitional housing, coordinated, when reasonably feasible, with already existing homeless census projects including those funded in part by the United States department of housing and urban development under the McKinney-Vento homeless assistance program. )) The department shall determine, in consultation with local governments, the data to be collected. (( Data on subpopulations and other characteristics of the homeless must, at a minimum, be consistent with the United States department of housing and urban development's point-in-time requirements. ))