H-2462.1
HOUSE BILL 2118
State of Washington
69th Legislature
2026 Regular Session
By Representatives Jacobsen, Reed, Duerr, Engell, and Bernbaum
Prefiled 12/09/25. Read first time 01/12/26. Referred to Committee on Housing.
AN ACT Relating to preventing common interest community unit owners' associations from imposing more onerous restrictions on an owner than those restrictions that existed when the owner acquired the unit; adding a new section to chapter 64.90 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 64.38 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 64.34 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 64.32 RCW; and providing expiration dates.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 64.90 RCW to read as follows:
(1)(a) An association may not enter into, amend, or enforce a covenant, condition, or restriction in such a way that imposes more onerous restrictions on the types of use of a unit than those restrictions that existed when the unit owner acquired the unit owner's interest in the unit, unless the unit owner who owns the affected unit expressly agrees in writing at the time of the adoption or amendment of the covenant, condition, or restriction.