CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5840
Chapter 27, Laws of 2024
68TH LEGISLATURE
2024 REGULAR SESSION
ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF LEASES
EFFECTIVE DATE: June 6, 2024
Passed by the Senate February 2, 2024 Yeas 49 Nays 0 DENNY HECK
President of the Senate Passed by the House February 27, 2024 Yeas 95 Nays 0 LAURIE JINKINS
Speaker of the House of Representatives | CERTIFICATE I, Sarah Bannister, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5840 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth. SARAH BANNISTER
Secretary Secretary |
Approved March 13, 2024 11:14 AM | FILED March 14, 2024 |
JAY INSLEE
Governor of the State of Washington | Secretary of State State of Washington |
SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5840
Passed Legislature - 2024 Regular Session
State of Washington | 68th Legislature | 2024 Regular Session |
BySenate Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senators Padden, Pedersen, and Kuderer)
READ FIRST TIME 01/19/24.
AN ACT Relating to the acknowledgment of leases; and amending RCW
59.04.010 and
64.04.010.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW
59.04.010 and Code 1881 s 2053 are each amended to read as follows:
Tenancies from year to year are hereby abolished except when the same are created by express written contract. Leases may be in writing or print, or partly in writing and partly in print((
, and shall be legal and valid for any term or period not exceeding one year, without acknowledgment, witnesses or seals)).
Nothing in this section shall be construed in any manner to conflict with or supersede RCW 59.18.210.Sec. 2. RCW
64.04.010 and 1929 c 33 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
Every conveyance of real estate, or any interest therein, and every contract creating or evidencing any encumbrance upon real estate, shall be by deed: PROVIDED, ((That))that (1) Leases do not require acknowledgment, witness, or seals, but to be recorded, a lease and a memorandum of lease must have the lessee's and lessor's signatures acknowledged; and (2) when real estate, or any interest therein, is held in trust, the terms and conditions of which trust are of record, and the instrument creating such trust authorizes the issuance of certificates or written evidence of any interest in said real estate under said trust, and authorizes the transfer of such certificates or evidence of interest by assignment by the holder thereof by a simple writing or by endorsement on the back of such certificate or evidence of interest or delivery thereof to the vendee, such transfer shall be valid, and all such assignments or transfers hereby authorized and heretofore made in accordance with the provisions of this section are hereby declared to be legal and valid.
Passed by the Senate February 2, 2024.
Passed by the House February 27, 2024.
Approved by the Governor March 13, 2024.
Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 14, 2024.
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