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CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1733 Chapter 297, Laws of 2025 69TH LEGISLATURE 2025 REGULAR SESSION AGENCY DISPLACEMENT—MOVING AND RELOCATION EXPENSES—MODIFICATION EFFECTIVE DATE: July 27, 2025 Passed by the House April 24, 2025 Yeas 94 Nays 0 LAURIE JINKINS Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 16, 2025 Yeas 49 Nays 0 DENNY HECK President of the Senate CERTIFICATE I, Bernard Dean, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1733 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth. BERNARD DEAN Chief Clerk Chief Clerk Approved May 17, 2025 11:12 AM FILED May 19, 2025 BOB FERGUSON Governor of the State of Washington Secretary of State State of Washington SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1733 AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE Passed Legislature - 2025 Regular Session State of Washington 69th Legislature 2025 Regular Session By House Civil Rights & Judiciary (originally sponsored by Representatives Thomas, Fitzgibbon, Zahn, Street, Fosse, Reed, Parshley, Cortes, Hill, Bernbaum, and Ramel) READ FIRST TIME 02/18/25. AN ACT Relating to increasing the reimbursement cap for moving and relocation expenses incurred by persons affected by agency displacements; and amending RCW 8.26.035. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON: Sec. 1. RCW 8.26.035 and 2017 c 12 s 1 are each amended to read as follows: (1) Whenever a program or project to be undertaken by a displacing agency will result in the displacement of any person, the displacing agency shall provide for the payment to the displaced person of: (a) Actual reasonable expenses in moving himself or herself, or his or her family, business, farm operation, or other personal property; (b) Actual direct losses of tangible personal property as a result of moving or discontinuing a business or farm operation, but not to exceed an amount equal to the reasonable expenses that would have been required to relocate the property, in accordance with criteria established by the lead agency; (c) Actual reasonable expenses in searching for a replacement business or farm; ((and )) (d) ((Actual ))Except as provided in (e) of this subsection, actual reasonable expenses necessary to reestablish a displaced farm, nonprofit organization, or small business at its new site, in accordance with criteria established by the lead agency, but not to exceed ((fifty thousand dollars or the )): (i) $200,000; or (ii) The dollar amount allowed under 42 U.S.C. Sec. 4622 as it existed on July 23, 2017, or such subsequent date as may be provided by the displacing agency by rule or regulation, consistent with the purposes of this section, whichever is greater; and (e) Until August 1, 2030, if the displacing agency is a state agency, actual reasonable expenses necessary to reestablish a displaced farm, nonprofit organization, or small business at its new site, in accordance with criteria established by the lead agency, but not to exceed: (i) $100,000; or (ii) The dollar amount allowed under 42 U.S.C. Sec. 4622 as it existed on July 23, 2017, or such subsequent date as may be provided by the displacing agency by rule or regulation, consistent with the purposes of this section, whichever is greater . (2) A displaced person eligible for payments under subsection (1) of this section who is displaced from a dwelling and who elects to accept the payments authorized by this subsection in lieu of the payments authorized by subsection (1) of this section may receive an expense and dislocation allowance determined according to a schedule established by the lead agency. (3) A displaced person eligible for payments under subsection (1) of this section who is displaced from the person's place of business or farm operation and who is eligible under criteria established by the lead agency may elect to accept the payment authorized by this subsection in lieu of the payment authorized by subsection (1) of this section. The payment shall consist of a fixed payment in an amount to be determined according to criteria established by the lead agency, except that the payment shall be not less than the dollar amount allowed under 42 U.S.C. Sec. 4622 as it existed on July 23, 2017, or such subsequent date as may be provided by the displacing agency by rule or regulation, consistent with the purposes of this section. A person whose sole business at the displacement dwelling is the rental of that property to others does not qualify for a payment under this subsection. (4) Beginning August 1, 2025, and annually thereafter, the lead agency shall adjust the dollar amounts specified in subsection (1)(d)(i) and (e)(i) of this section for inflation by increasing the previous year's dollar amount by two percent. Passed by the House April 24, 2025. Passed by the Senate April 16, 2025. Approved by the Governor May 17, 2025. Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 19, 2025.
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