Bills By Progress

Zach Stednick now maintains a webpage that displays a table showing the status of all the climate bills, arranged in rows by their bill numbers.

Passed by the House

  • HB1012
    Creating an extreme weather response grant program.
  • HB1589
    Requiring steps to transition off natural gas.
  • HB1955
    Repeals redundant 2019 bill requiring utilities to calculate and report the greenhouse gas emissions of their fuel mix.

To Rules in the house of origin

  • HB1185
    Updating and expanding the state's producer stewardship program for lighting products.
  • HB1368
    Requiring and funding purchases of zero-emission school buses after September 2035.
  • HB1433
    Adopting a standard method for use in programs for the energy labeling of existing residential buildings.
  • HB1924
    Including fusion technology in state clean energy policies.
  • HB1948
    Ensuring that methods for calculating a utility's load under the Energy Independence Act don't discourage voluntary investments in renewables.
  • HB1976
    Allowing the Department of Commerce to provide larger incentives for upgrading buildings to meet the State's energy performance standards than the ones specified in the current law.
  • HB2028
    Prohibiting direct retail sales or leases of vehicles & some subscription services; limiting manufacturers' ability to get dealers to install fast chargers.
  • HB2039
    Streamlining the appeals process for environmental and land use matters.
  • HB2069
    Authorizing public utility districts to sell biogenic carbon dioxide and other coproducts of biogas processing at wholesale.
  • HB2120
    Allowing cities to grant nuclear facilities an additional four years to complete projects and qualify for the tax breaks available for new manufacturing in targeted urban areas.
  • HB2156
    Creating consumer protections for purchasers of solar energy systems.
  • HB2173
    Authorizing executive sessions by public natural gas utilities to allow them to comply with the Climate Commitment Act's prohibition on disclosing auction participation plans.
  • HB2199
    Creating tax exemptions for amounts received through transactions involving the Climate Commitment Act's allowances, offset credits, or price ceiling units.
  • HB2465
    Specifying procedures of the Building Code Council.
  • SB5812
    Requiring a study of best practices for responding to electric vehicle fires.
  • SB5919
    Authorizing public utility districts to sell biogenic carbon dioxide and other coproducts of biogas processing at wholesale.
  • SB5945
    Prohibiting direct retail sales or leases of vehicles & some subscription services; limiting manufacturers' ability to get dealers to install fast chargers.
  • SB6047
    Authorizing executive sessions by public natural gas utilities to allow them to comply with the Climate Commitment Act's prohibition on disclosing auction participation plans.
  • SB6089
    Eliminating certain minimum requirement equivalencies for becoming electrical inspectors.
  • SB6229
    Allowing the Department of Transportation to set the matching requirement for a Green Transportation Capital Grant at the level it deems appropriate.
  • SB6256
    Creating consumer protections for purchasers of solar energy systems.
  • SB6278
    Creating an organic and regenerative agriculture action plan for the State.
  • SB6291
    Specifying procedures of the Building Code Council.

Out of First Committee in the Senate

  • SB5570
    Authorizing electric utilities to establish revolving energy efficiency loan programs. (Dead.)
  • SB5973
    Guaranteeing owners of units in common interest communities opportunities to install their own heat pumps.
  • SB6016
    Creating a green energy community fund to support schools and nonprofits in communities where public utilities' renewable energy projects are located.
  • SB6039
    Promoting the development of geothermal energy resources.
  • SB6052
    Assessing petroleum products supply and pricing.
  • SB6058
    Facilitating linkage of Washington's carbon market with the California-Quebec market.
  • SB6092
    Requiring large businesses to report all their associated greenhouse gas emissions.
  • SB6121
    Regulating and encouraging biochar production from agricultural and forestry biomass.
  • SB6180
    Improving waste management systems, including products affecting composting systems.
  • SB6240
    Providing the reduced B&O tax rate for producing alternative jet fuel to much smaller companies in distressed areas.
  • SB6278
    Creating an organic and regenerative agriculture action plan for the State.
  • SB6281
    Increasing funding for reforestation after wildfires and other destructive events.

Out of First Committee in the House

  • HB1185
    Updating and expanding the state's producer stewardship program for lighting products.
  • HB1574
    Expanding the Sustainable Farms and Fields grants program to place more emphasis on reducing livestock emissions.
  • HB1870
    Providing local communities with technical support and matching funds for federal grant applications.
  • HB1935
    Creating a Washington State Green Schools Program.
  • HB1936
    Creating a B&O tax credit for farmers participating in conservation programs.
  • HB2049
    Improving solid waste management outcomes.
  • HB2073
    Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from anesthetics and studying alternatives for reducing the ones from a pesticide.
  • HB2082
    Requiring a study of the employment and workforce education needs of the electrical transmission industry.
  • HB2131
    Promoting the establishment of thermal energy networks.
  • HB2144
    Providing for a beverage containers deposit return program implemented by a distributor responsibility organization, if it and Ecology agree on a plan.
  • HB2201
    Facilitating linkage of Washington's carbon market with the California-Quebec market.
  • HB2301
    Improving waste management systems, including products affecting composting systems.
  • HB2333
    Assessing the potential of state-owned natural and built assets to generate offset credits for carbon markets.
  • HB2336
    Assessing the suitability of state-owned lands for agriculture and renewable energy.
  • HB2401
    Managing refrigerant gases used in appliances or other infrastructure.
  • SB6180
    Improving waste management systems, including products affecting composting systems.
  • SB6303
    Providing several fifteen year tax incentives to encourage energy storage system and component parts manufacturing in Washington.

Heard in Senate Committee

  • SB5826
    Requiring rates or charges authorized by the UTC to recover utilities' costs in implementing the Climate Commitment Act to be listed on customers' bills. (Dead)
  • SB5876
    Streamlining the application processes for state voluntary programs funding water and salmon ecosystem investments. (Dead)
  • SB5965
    Reducing the environmental impacts of the clothing industry. (Dead)
  • SB5992
    Requiring applicants seeking energy facility site certification for a project generating electricity using renewable resources to provide evidence of an adequate water supply for it. (Dead)
  • SB6138
    Promoting the establishment of thermal energy networks. (Dead)

Heard in House Committee

  • HB1078
    Requires local urban forestry ordinances to include a tree bank provision for replacing trees, in order to avoid blocking development that involves removing them.
  • HB1900
    Implementing strategies to achieve higher solid waste recycling rates. (Dead)
  • HB1981
    Setting a preferential B&O tax rate for manufacturing fuel and/or fuel assemblies for nuclear reactors.
  • HB2051
    Reducing emissions from small off-road engines. (Dead)
  • HB2068
    Reducing the environmental impacts of the clothing industry. (Dead)
  • HB2234
    Revising the utility energy assistance programs for low-income households. (Dead)
  • HB2249
    Studying the impact of including general market participants in all the auctions of allowances for the Climate Commitment Program. (Dead)
  • HB2253
    Providing fair access to community solar. (Dead)
  • HB2262
    Creating and enforcing energy efficiency standards for replacement tires. (Dead)
  • HJM4003
    Advocating a Fossil Fuel Nonproliferation Treaty. (Dead)