Vetoed by the Governor –
- HB2248- Enhances opportunities to participate in community solar projects
- HB2722- Requires minimum recycled content in plastic beverage containers.
- HB2848– Extends the sales and use tax exemption for hog fuel to 2045.
- SB6430- Establishing a statewide industrial waste coordination program.
Vetoed by the Governor – in part
- HB2645– Tightens the solar PV module stewardship program in some small ways.
- HB2713– Requires the State and local governments to use compost and reimburses farmers for using it.
To the Governor –
- HB2311– Increases the State's emissions reductions targets beyond the Paris Accords'.
- HB2343– Authorizes increasing neighborhood density and reducing parking requirements.
- HB2405– Authorizes counties to establish commercial property assessed clean energy financing programs.
- HB2518- Minimizing leaks in natural gas pipelines.
- HB2528- Recognizing contributions of forest products to the state's climate response.
- HB2676– Minimum requirements for testing autonomous vehicles in the Department of Transportation's pilot program.
- HB2811- Develops K-12 field work experiences in environmental and sustainability education.
- HB2819- Expedites a pumped storage project by designating them as projects of statewide significance.
- SB5811- Allows Ecology to adopt Zero Emission Vehicle standards.
- SB5947– Creates grant program for sustainable farms and fields.
- SB6091- Continues the work of the Washington Food Policy Forum.
- SB6135- Adds more reporting on reliability to the 100% Clean Electricity Act.
- SB6231- Extends the remodeling property tax exemption to adding an ADU.
- SB6306– Creates the Washington Soil Health Initiative.
Passed by Both Houses (Need concurrence) –
Bills Passed by the House
- HB1110- Low Carbon Fuel Standard
Bills Passed by the Senate
Bills in Rules
- HB2957– Regulating indirect sources under the Clean Air Act and reducing building emissions.
- SB6172- Tax exemption for Bonneville funds utilities spend on low-income assistance or weatherization.
- SB6432- Bans new offshore oil projects and oil or gas infrastructure on shorelines of statewide significance.
- SB6586- Imposes a per mile fee on electric and hybrid vehicles.
Bills Reported Out of Committee
- HB2892- Responds to Supreme Court ruling by specifying Ecology can regulate direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions. (Reportedly NTIB.)
Had a new hearing in the 2020 Session
(This does not include bills that had a hearing in 2019 and are still in committee.)
- SB6195- Authorizes $500 million in bonds to fund DNR's 20-Year Forest Health Strategic Plan.
Dead Bills – including those in Rules Committee “X” files
- HB1029- Adds requirements for Ecology's assessments of Federal water quality permit applications.
- HB1127- Allows utilities to electrify transportation infrastructure.
- HB1128- Authorizes alternative forms of regulation for utilities.
- HB1129- Requires utilities to provide net metering for more small systems, and allows them to offer it to as many large systems as they wish.
- HB1167- Protects established composting sites from being sued for creating a public nuisance.
- HB1232- Lets utilities count old hydro as meeting I-937's requirements for adding new renewables
- HB1332- Updates Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council operations.
- HB1397- Creates work group on electric and hybrid airplanes.
- HB1496- Improving sustainability and climate science education.
- HB1642- Expands on-bill repayment programs for renewable energy and conservation projects.
- HB1862- Raises the cap on net metering
- HB2009– Revises Senate environmental justice bill.
- HB2047- Supports forest carbon sequestration and voluntary participation in carbon markets and incentive programs.
- HB2082- Riparian agroforestry and carbon sequestration pilot with payments to landowners.
- HB2095– Creates grant program for sustainable farms and fields.
- HB2310– Reduces emissions from on-demand transportation.
- HB2379- Inventorying and incentivizing the reduction of GHG emissions from sulfur hexafluoride.
- HB2427– Adds addressing climate change to goals for regional planning processes.
- HB2429– Bans manufacturing and distributing styrofoam containers, packing material and coolers.
- HB2472– Requires comprehensive full life cycle estimates of fossil fuel emissions in state environmental evaluations.
- HB2486- Extends tax breaks for marine electric motors for another ten years.
- HB2550– Makes achievement of net ecological gain in environmental, land use, and development laws the State's policy.
- HB2570- Requiring cities and counties to adopt zoning and development rules making it easier to build ADUs in their urban growth areas.
- HB2586- Authorizes public utilities to support shifting homes and buildings from fossil fuels to electricity if it's in the public interest.
- HB2611– Study promoting circular bioeconomy throughout the state.
- HB2651- Addresses food waste by standardizing labels for food's freshness or expiration.
- HB2652- Creates standards for producing, labeling, and advertising ammonia made with renewable resources.
- HB2656- Reducing waste associated with non-compostable single-use food service products.
- HB2667– Amends the residential energy code to prioritize reducing construction costs rather than increasing energy efficiency.
- HB2688– Expands transportation policy goals; requires evaluating projects using performance metrics for the goals before the Legislature considers them.
- HB2696- Prohibits labeling or advertising for plant-based alternatives from containing any terms for foods containing meat, including "burger".
- HB2714- Valuing the carbon in forest riparian easements.
- HB2744- Including the use of low carbon materials and contractors' disclosure of labor law compliance in the awarding of state construction contracts.
- HB2748- Requires relatively large employers providing a parking subsidy to offer a cash out option.
- HB2756- Requires utilities to let customers opt out of smart meter installations.
- HB2768- Revises the State's urban forestry program to include tribes, and to prioritize salmon and environmental justice goals.
- HB2773– Regulations for peer to peer vehicle sharing programs.
- HB2829- Declaring a climate emergency and authorizing possible actions by the Governor.
- HB2918– Insurance requirements for peer-to-peer vehicle sharing companies.
- SB5077- Bans single-use plastic straws
- SB5128- Reduces the registration fee for electric motorcycles.
- SB5280- Authorizes community solar gardens
- SB5308- Oversight for municipal energy service contracts.
- SB5347- Requires utility publicity for climate programs to display "discernible and quantifiable effects" on global emissions of an individual's participation.
- SB5412– Creates a low carbon fuel standard.
- SB5476– Protects established composting sites from being sued for creating a public nuisance.
- SB5489– Requires state agencies to use all practical means and measures to promote environmental justice.
- SB5555– Excludes almost all solar systems from renewable energy tax incentives.
- SB5561– Specifies requirements for lead agencies’ evaluations of greenhouse gas emissions.
- SB5629- Promoting small modular nuclear reactors.
- SB5730- Authorizes jurisdictions to establish commercial property assessed clean energy financing programs.
- SB5747– Requires a report on ways to expand the use of solid waste-to-energy plants.
- SB6019- Tax exemptions for waste to energy plants.
- SB6082Specifies current limitations on car manufacturers' practices don't apply to Tesla's direct sales model.
- SB6124- Develops K-12 field work experiences in environmental and sustainability education.
- SB6213- Bans manufacturing and distributing styrofoam containers, packing material and coolers.
- SB6222– Authorizes counties to establish commercial property assessed clean energy financing programs.
- SB6223- Enhances opportunities to participate in community solar projects.
- SB6272– Increases the State’s emissions reductions targets more.
- SB6329- Prohibits labeling or advertising for plant-based alternatives from containing any terms for foods containing meat, including "meat", "burger", "sausage", etc.
- SB6335- Adding proportional greenhouse emissions reductions and resiliency to growth management planning.
- SB6355- Recognizing contributions of forest products to the state's climate response.
- SB6435- Study promoting circular bioeconomy throughout the state.
- SB6453– Adds addressing climate change to goals for regional planning processes.
- SB6498- Valuing the carbon in forest riparian easements.
- SB6529- Revises the State's urban forestry program to include tribes, and to prioritize salmon and environment justice goals.
- SB6578- Expedites a pumped storage project by designating them as projects of statewide significance.
- SB6597- Allows triple trailer rigs on State highways.
- SB6622- Retains the photovoltaic product stewardship program and requires a report on a comprehensive alternate.
- SB6627- Reducing waste associated with non-compostable single-use food service products.
- SB6628- Responds to Supreme Court ruling by specifying that Ecology has the authority to regulate direct and indirect emissions of greenhouse gases.
- SB6645- Requires increasing recycled content in plastic beverage containers.
- SB6681– Amends residential energy code to prioritize reducing construction costs rather than increasing energy efficiency.
- SJM8018- Joint memorial urging development of a Federal nuclear waste repository.