2021 Bills Archive

  • HB1036
    Implements a low-carbon fuel standard.
  • HB1039
    Reports on, updates, and expands bicycle and pedestrian safety and education programs. (Dead)
  • HB1046
    Requires private utilities to buy power from community solar projects, credit participants' bills, and make 40% of that power available for use by low-income consumers and service providers. (Dead)
  • HB1050
    Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from hydrofluorocarbons.
  • HB1053
    Postpones the upcoming prohibition of some plastic and paper carryout bags for six months. (Dead)
  • HB1057
    Clarifies that the Clean Air Act's prohibition of pollution unreasonably interfering with the enjoyment of life and property includes publicly owned open spaces. (Dead)
  • HB1075
    Requires ride-hailing services to reduce their vehicle emissions.
  • HB1084 – 2021
    Reducing emissions from natural gas space and water heating in residential and commercial buildings. (Dead)
  • HB1091
    Implements a low-carbon fuel standard.
  • HB1114
    Includes mitigation of urban heat island effects using tree planting and cool roof programs in utility energy conservation programs.
  • HB1118
    Makes producers responsible for the recycling, reuse, and composting of packaging and paper products for residential use, and for post-consumer recycled content in them.
  • HB1125
    Incentivizing energy conservation and efficiency by landlords; expanding rate discounts. (Dead)
  • HB1130
    Mandates 50% reductions in utility bills and 50% improvements in reliability. (Dead)
  • HB1168
    Expands wildfire response, forest restoration, forest sector workforce development, and community resilience programs with $25 million in required funding this biennium.
  • HB1204
    Requires ending State registration of new fossil fuel cars and light vehicles, starting with 2030 models. (Dead)
  • HB1216 – 2021
    Combines Commerce's Urban Forest Management Program with DNR's Community and Urban Forestry Program; adds tribal lands and prioritizes environmental justice investments.
  • HB1287
    Creates a tool for forecasting and mapping EV charging infrastructure needs; requires addressing those in utilities' integrated resource planning, and in building code updates.
  • HB1327
    Requires retail bills to compare actual electricity costs to the costs if power came exclusively from least-cost resources, and to imply the difference is due to wind and solar subsidies. (Dead)
  • HB1330
    Creates a sales and use tax exemption for electric bicycles and up to $200 of related equipment.
  • HB1336
    Grants unrestricted authority to public entities to provide retail telecommunications services.
  • HB1387
    Adds ten years to the tax exemption for hog fuel used for electricity, steam, heat or biofuel, shifting expiration from 2024 to 2034.
  • HB1388
    Allows manufacturers that only make zero-emissions vehicles, like Tesla, to own and control their own dealerships, finance, leasing and service operations. (Dead)
  • HB1393
    Delays implementing manufacturers' photovoltaic module takeback and recycling requirements for two years.
  • HB1436
    Suspends many environmental and land use permit requirements until a year after withdrawal of all Covid-19 restrictive orders.
  • HB1446
    Excuses utilities from the penalties for failing to meet required conservation targets if events beyond their reasonable control prevent that.
  • HB1457
    Facilitating the installation of broadband facilities on limited access highways.
  • HB1479
    Tax exemption for emissions reductions or energy efficiency in fire department vehicles.
  • HB1488
    Requires increasing amounts of recycled post consumer content in plastic packaging, in stages.
  • HB1502
    Specifies competitive bidding procedures counties may use in designing and procuring electric ferries.
  • HB1503
    Low income tax exemption for natural gas, propane, hydrogen, and electric vehicles.
  • HB1513
    Modifying SB5373 on issuing up to $4.943 billion in bonds, backed by a tax on fossil fuels, to be used for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and natural climate solutions. (Dead.)
  • HB1514
    Extends tax exemptions for commuter ride sharing vehicles to any carpool or vanpool transporting at least three people, including the driver.
  • HB1534
    Expands HB1513's carbon tax to cover energy intensive trade exposed manufacturing industries, giving them a gradually reduced number of tradable credits against the tax over time, and ways to earn bonus credits.
  • HB1537
    Terminates some tax exemptions for particular uses of fossil fuels.
  • HB1548
    Frees regular hybrids without plugs from the extra $75 transportation electrification fee for EVs and alternative fuel vehicles.
  • HB1572
    Exempts rental car company purchases of EVs and hybrids from sales and use taxes; applies the current tax on car rentals to peer-to-peer car sharing.
  • HB1577
    Issuing up to $4.943 billion in bonds, backed by a tax on fossil fuels, to be used for clean transportation investments and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
  • SB5000
    Creates a different sales and use tax exemption for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
  • SB5007
    Uses savings from suspending conservation and planning requirements for utilities to fund customer assistance and write off unpaid bills.
  • SB5008
    Revives B&O tax exemption for Bonneville funds utilities spend on low-income bill assistance or weatherization.
  • SB5022
    Implements minimum recycled contents requirement for plastic beverage containers and other items; prohibits the sale and distribution of some polystyrene products, and establishes optional serviceware requirements. (Changed title)
  • SB5026
    Authorizes ports' purchases of zero and near zero emissions cargo handling equipment; prohibits purchase of automated container cargo handling equipment.
  • SB5081
    Places the burden of proof in any enforcement action on the Department of Ecology (and applies to four other agencies). (Dead)
  • SB5093 – 2021
    Reducing emissions from natural gas space and water heating in residential and commercial buildings. (Dead)
  • SB5110
    B&O tax credit for 50% of the capital costs of extending internet service to unserved areas.
  • SB5126
    Creates a cap and trade program, and a task force to make recommendations for a comprehensive, coordinated statewide climate action program.
  • SB5141
    Implements the recommendations of the environmental justice task force.
  • SB5154 – 2021
    Prohibits ports from enforcing emission standards for trucks operating on their property, and from prohibiting old trucks until July 2036. (Dead)
  • SB5168 – 2021
    Requiring Ecology to provide advisory opinions on whether proposed projects will meet the Clean Energy Transformation Act's requirements for greenhouse gas neutral electricity. (Dead)
  • SB5174
    Making manufacturers responsible for recycling or reusing wind turbine blades.
  • SB5175
    Authorizes the Community Economic Revitalization Board to make loans and grants to local governments and tribes for constructing broadband internet infrastructure.
  • SB5192
    Requires signage, multiple payment methods, and interoperability for publicly available EV chargers.
  • SB5206
    Excludes solar projects on agricultural land from the expedited process for siting energy projects. (Dead)
  • SB5219
    Requires more post-consumer recycled plastic in packaging. (Dead)
  • SB5256
    Requires ending State registration of fossil fuel cars and light vehicles, starting with 2030 models.
  • SB5286
    Sets goals and lists possible agency steps to support diverting and reducing organic waste.
  • SB5295
    Multiyear and performance based rate setting for gas and electrical utilities; expanded assistance for low-income customers and vulnerable populations; and supporting energy conservation measures in rental housing.
  • SB5308
    Removes the additional $75 transportation electrification fee on hybrids and plug-in vehicles that travel less than 30 miles on the battery.
  • SB5345
    Creates an industrial waste coordination program to support local industrial symbiosis projects.
  • SB5357
    Appropriations for matching grants from the Federal broadband infrastructure program to increase broadband access in rural and distressed areas.
  • SB5363
    Requires retail bills to compare actual electricity costs to the costs if power came exclusively from least-cost resources, and to imply the difference is due to wind and solar subsidies. (Dead)
  • SB5373
    Issuing up to $4.943 billion in bonds, backed by a tax on fossil fuels, to be used for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and natural climate solutions.
  • SB5383
    Allowing PUDs to provide retail broadband in unserved areas if existing providers don't object and plan to provide it.
  • SB5415
    Expanding and revising expedited review of projects by the Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council.
  • SB5439
    Facilitating the coordinated installation of broadband along state highways.
  • SB5444
    Creates a per mile charge on electric and hybrid vehicles, replacing the current special fees; extends the $75 transportation electrification fee to cover all plug-ins.
  • SB5452 – 2021
    Requires giving electric bicycles the same access to non-motorized dirt trails and closed roads that regular bicycles are given.
  • SB5457
    Extends tax exemptions for commuter ride sharing vehicles to any carpool or vanpool transporting at least three people, including the driver.
  • SB5460
    Authorizes Director of Licensing to make and enforce rules for the current autonomous vehicle self-certification testing pilot program.
  • SB5461
    Authorizes up to $500 million in bonds to implement DNR's 20 Year Forest Health Plan, funding forest health and community resilience.