Creates a new law by adding a new section to chapter 43.110 RCW that requires the Department of Commerce to contract for a computer application every city and county can use to create a homelessness-related dashboard to post on a website. The Department may contract with state agencies or private consulting firms for staff support and must coordinate with the Municipal Research and Services Center (MRSC), the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs, the Association of Washington Cities, and the Washington State Association of Counties. The change is a procedural requirement for data collection, dashboard capability, contracting, and public posting; it does not create a new crime or change criminal penalties. The bill specifies numerous annual data elements the application must be able to display, including measures of housing need and permits, jurisdiction expenditures and counts for housing assistance and subsidized housing, names and funding amounts for organizations serving unsheltered people, counts related to health and addiction treatment and treatment outcomes, counts of thefts and emergency calls near known unsheltered locations compared to jurisdiction averages, arrests and convictions for illegal narcotics sales, numbers transitioned to permanent housing, cleanup expenditures, and counts and locations of homeless encampments including proximity to schools and child care centers. MRSC must annually assemble the dashboard information for all counties and cities using appropriations allocated for this purpose and make it available on its website. The text does not specify an effective date, the new RCW section number, appropriation amounts, timelines for contracting or initial data assembly, or definitions and methods for calculating the listed data elements (for example how "needed housing units," "known locations," or jurisdiction averages are determined).

If enacted, the state would fund and contract for a shared computer application that every city and county can use to produce an annual public dashboard about homelessness, and the Municipal Research and Services Center (MRSC) would be required to gather those data for all jurisdictions and post them on its website each year. The dashboards must report a long list of items annually—housing need versus permits, spending and counts of people in subsidized housing or receiving assistance, names and amounts paid to service providers, counts of encampments (including near schools or day cares), medical treatment and addiction program entry/completion, emergency calls and certain crime statistics near unsheltered locations, transitions to permanent housing, and cleanup costs—so those specific metrics will become publicly visible and comparable by jurisdiction on MRSC’s site. The most affected parties will be cities and counties, which will need to compile or provide the required metrics and may face added administrative work and potential costs to gather consistent data; the Department of Commerce will take on contracting and coordination duties and the MRSC will need appropriated funding and staff time to assemble and publish the dashboards annually. Organizations receiving public funds to serve unsheltered people will be publicly named with amounts received, creating greater transparency and potential reputational scrutiny. Key implementation details are missing from the text provided—there are no deadlines, no funding amounts spelled out, and no definitions or methods for how many of the listed measures must be calculated—so how much work and cost each party will actually face, and how comparable the published data will be across jurisdictions, remains unclear.