Signed by Governor Jay Inslee

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that prohibits rental terminations or evictions from landlords except on certain enumerated grounds.

Highlights:

• Prohibits landlords from evicting tenants or ending tenancies except when (Sec. 2):

• The tenant continues in possession in person or by subtenant after a default in the payment of rent, and after written notice requiring, in the alternative, the payment of the rent or the surrender of the detained premises has remained non complied with for the period set forth;

• This does not apply if the default in payment of rent occurred between March 1 2020 and the end of the COVID-19; or

• If the landlord comes up with a schedule to repay unpaid rent that the tenant refuses within 14 days of the offer, the landlord may proceed with legal action;

• The tenant continues in possession after substantial breach of a material program requirement of subsidized housing, material  term subscribed to by the tenant within the lease or rental agreement, or a tenant obligation imposed by law, other than one for monetary damages, and after the landlord has served written notice specifying the acts or omissions constituting the breach and requiring, in the alternative, that the breach be remedied or the rental agreement will terminate, and the breach has not been adequately remedied by the date specified in the notice, which date shall be at least 10 days after service of the notice;

• The tenant continues in possession after having received at least three days' written notice to quit after he or she commits of permits waste or nuisance upon the premises, unlawful activity that affects the use and enjoyment of the premises, or other substantial or repeated and unreasonable interference with the use and enjoyment of the premises by the landlord or neighbors of the tenant;

• The tenant continues in possession after the landlord of a  dwelling unit in good faith seeks possession so that the owner or his or her immediate family may occupy the unit as that person's  principal residence and no substantially equivalent unit is vacant and available to house the owner or his or her immediate family in the same building, and the owner has given at least 90 days' advance written notice of the date the tenant's possession is to end; or

• The tenant continues in possession after the landlord elects  to sell a single family residence and the landlord has given at least 90 days' advance written notice of the date the tenant's possession is to end.

Full Bill Text