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                          HOUSE BILL 2155

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State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

By Representatives Veloria, Murray and Santos

Read first time 02/17/1999.  Referred to Committee on Economic Development, Housing & Trade.

Addressing affordable housing.

    AN ACT Relating to affordable housing; and amending RCW 35.21.830.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

    Sec. 1.  RCW 35.21.830 and 1981 c 75 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    The imposition of controls on rent is of state-wide significance and is preempted by the state.  No city or town of any class, with a population less than four hundred thousand, may enact, maintain, or enforce ordinances or other provisions which regulate the amount of rent to be charged for single family or multiple unit residential rental structures or sites other than properties in public ownership, under public management, or properties providing low-income rental housing under joint public-private agreements for the financing or provision of such low-income rental housing.  This section shall not be construed as prohibiting any city or town from entering into agreements with private persons which regulate or control the amount of rent to be charged for rental properties.

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