Governor Inslee's 2023 Budget Proposal

Creating an extreme weather response grant program.

Adds ten years to the tax exemption for hog fuel used for electricity, steam, heat or biofuel.

Requires utility planning for wildfire risks and identification of best management practices.

Committee on standards to increase composting of food waste and reduce contaminants in compost.

Requires local urban forestry ordinances to include a tree bank provision for replacing trees, in order to avoid blocking development that involves removing them.

Having the Freight Mobility Strategic Investment Board make project recommendations to the Legislature rather than making freight mobility grants itself.

Reducing plastic pollution.

Requiring the annual meeting of agencies, utilities and stakeholders to address the extent to which the state risks rolling blackouts and power supply inadequacies.

Authorizing tribes or counties to prohibit local siting of a solar or wind project by passing a resolution saying they would prefer a nuclear plant. (Dead.)

Improving solid waste management outcomes.

Authorizing using transportation impact fees for bicycle and pedestrian facilities.

Increasing preparations and funding for drought emergencies.

Creates producer responsibility program for appliance refrigerants and insulating foam. (Dead.)

Creates a water quality trading program to help Clean Water Act permittees meet maximum daily temperature discharge limits. (Dead.)

Updating the State's climate resilience strategy.

Requires Ecology to create light mitigation standards for wind projects.

Creates state run insurance for underground petroleum storage tanks.

Creating a Washington Climate Corps and evaluating climate and energy transition workforce needs.

Updating planning requirements to improve the State's climate response.

Prohibiting Washington from adopting California vehicle emissions standards. (Dead.)

Updating and expanding the state's producer stewardship program for lighting products.

Changing the uses of the revenue from the Climate Committment Act. (Dead.)

Improving electric power system transmission planning.

Prohibiting the Building Code Council from restricting the use of natural gas or natural gas appliances in residential construction. (Dead.)

Workforce development for clean and renewable energy.

Consolidating and streamlining the siting of clean energy projects.

Prohibiting an agency or political subdivision of the state from considering the state's greenhouse gas limits in individual project decision making or other regulatory purposes. (Dead.)

Prohibits greenhouse gas emissions covered under the cap and invest program from being regulated through SEPA or the Shoreline Management Act. (Dead.)

Improving access to renewable hydrogen for public transportation.

Replacing the low-income home rehabilitation revolving loan program with a grant program.

Requiring environmental and labor reporting on materials for public building construction and renovation.

Requiring some ESG reporting and increased ESG investment options in the State's retirement system.

Requiring environmental reporting on materials for public construction. (Dead.)

Requiring and funding purchases of zero-emission school buses after September 2035.

Creates a study of cost and emissions tradeoffs in electrifying state vehicles. (Dead.)

Reporting on urban heat island effects on salmon, and awards for projects mitigating those.

Decarbonization planning for state-owned district energy systems.

Creating a state-wide building energy upgrade assistance program.

Broadening access to the information and tools needed to repair digital electronic equipment.

Altering the State Building Code Council's procedures and authority. (Dead.)

Applying emissions reduction requirements of the Clean Energy Act to nonresidential customers in public utility areas that produce their own power or buy it on the market.

Sales and use tax exemption for reusable boxes, crates, or pallets for personal property in sharing and reuse programs

Expanding utility net-metering programs.

Adopting a standard method for use in programs for the energy labeling of existing residential buildings.

Dedicating  the sales and use taxes on motor vehicles to highways, in several stages.

Spells out the types of hazard to be covered in State's energy contingency plans.

Supporting production and use of lower emission jet fuels, renewable fuels, and green electrolytic hydrogen. (Dead.)

Fair access to community solar. (Dead.)

Promoting transit oriented development. (Dead.)

Requires battery producers to participate in and fund a stewardship program providing for responsible environmental management of used batteries. (Dead.)

Expanding the Sustainable Farms and Fields grants program to place more emphasis on reducing livestock emissions.

Improving community preparedness, response, recovery, and resilience to wildlfire impacts in areas of increasing density.

Planning for advanced nuclear reactor technology.

Requiring steps to transition off natural gas.

Allows gas utilities to develop a wide range of renewable energy projects, and creates a tax exemption for renewable gas.

Increasing oversight of the cap and invest program's auctions and markets; report on transferring their management from Ecology to an independent body. (Dead.)

Ensuring rural representation on the Environmental Justice Council. (Dead.)

Allows all cities in counties using GMA planning to regulate forest practices on land within their boundaries if they adopt standards equivalent to DNR's. (Dead.)

Creating a statewide resiliency program.

Creating B&O tax credits for hydrogen fuel cells and electrolyzers.

Allowing large solar or wind projects to pay a production tax dedicated to providing local benefits instead of state property taxes.

Public utility tax exemption for electricity used by green electrolytic or renewable hydrogen businesses.

Modifying contracting for energy services and equipment by agencies and school districts.

Ensuring that the price impacts of the cap and invest program are not experienced by any users of fuels it exempts from surcharges. (Dead.)

Creates a DNR program selling carbon offsets and other ecosystem services based on state lands.

Creating a program for a road use fee which vehicle owners could choose to pay instead of the gas tax.

Creating a new process for acquiring up to five hybrid diesel-electric ferries.

Dedicating the sales and use taxes on motor vehicles to highways.

Transferring estimated sales and use tax revenue from expenditures by the Department of Transportation from the general fund to the motor vehicle fund.

Adds ten years to the tax exemption for hog fuel used for electricity, steam, heat or biofuel.

Preventing the Energy Code from prohibiting the use of natural gas in buildings. (Dead.)

Requires utility planning for wildfire risks and identification of best management practices.

Delaying the building performance standards by two years, and creating a work group on their financial impacts and building efficiency policy.

Dedicating gradually increasing amounts of the sales and use taxes on motor vehicles to transportation projects and reducing existing transportation project debt.

Expanding tax incentives for hydrogen fuel cells.

Expanding the sales and use tax exemption for plug-in vehicles to include regular hybrids.

Updating the State's climate resilience strategy.

Adding a climate resilience element to water system plans.

Altering the State Building Code Council's procedures and authority. (Dead.)

Planning for advanced nuclear reactor technology in the state.

Requires battery producers to participate in and fund a stewardship program providing for responsible environmental management of used batteries.

Allowing power from new and recent hydropower infrastructure to be used to comply with the Clean Energy Act from 2030 through 2045. (Dead.)

Improving solid waste management outcomes.

Improving electric power system transmission planning.

Prohibits solar and wind projects on commercial agricultural lands from getting expedited review through the Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council. (Dead.)

Eliminating the Energy Independence Act's requirements for renewable power. (Dead.)

Updating planning requirements to improve the State's climate response.

Creates state run insurance for underground petroleum storage tanks.

Creating a Washington Climate Corps and evaluating climate and energy transition workforce needs.

Assessing opportunities for Washington to capture new and emerging industries and strengthen its manufacturing base while responding to climate change.

Eliminates the public utility tax exemption for the instate portion of interstate oil shipments.

Creates a residential property assessed clean energy and resiliency program. (Dead.)

Allowing E-bikes on certain trails and closed roads where other bicycles are allowed. (Dead.)

Improving access to renewable hydrogen for public transportation. (Dead.)

Exempting school districts from the Clean Buildings Act's energy performance standards. (Dead.)

Advancing due date for Ecology's report on effects of the Clean Fuels program. (Dead.)

Consolidating and streamlining the siting of clean energy projects.

Authorizing safe harbor agreements about the northern spotted owl with forestland owners.

Requiring environmental reporting on materials for public construction. (Dead.)

Requiring and funding purchases of zero-emission school buses after September 2035.

Supporting production and use of lower emission jet fuels, renewable fuels, and green electrolytic hydrogen.

Authorizing using impact fees for bicycle and pedestrian facilities.

Broadening access to the information and tools needed to repair digital electronic equipment. (Dead.)

Promoting transit oriented development. (Dead.)

Allowing the use of E-bikes on certain trails and roads by persons with disabilities.

Creating a network of sustainable farms and fields advisors & making minor revisions to the grants program.

Creating a Washington State public infrastructure bank.

Regulating the sale of metal components from EV charging equipment to help keep thieves from stealing or destroying it.

Expanding Sustainable Farms and Fields grants program to place more emphasis on reducing livestock emissions.

Requiring steps to transition off natural gas.

Authorizing electric utilities to establish revolving energy efficiency loan programs. (Dead.)

Lets Ecology stop enforcing rules for reducing hydrofluorcarbon emissions if supply chain problems might impair state businesses or consumers.

Allowing fully autonomous vehicles with requestable remote intervention on public roads, with nearly the same rules as human drivers'.

Improving community preparedness, response, recovery, and resilience to wildfire in areas of increasing density. (Dead.)

Creating policy for recovering utilities' costs providing distribution infrastructure for commercial customers installing EV charging.

Allows all cities in counties using GMA planning to regulate forest practices on land within their boundaries if they adopt standards equivalent to DNR's. (Dead.)

Allows gas utilities to develop a wide range of renewable energy projects, and creating a tax exemption for renewable gas.

Creating programs selling carbon offsets and other ecosystem services based on state and local government lands.

Reimbursing users of some fuels exempt under the cap and invest program for any additional amounts they pay because of their suppliers' compliance obligations. (Dead.)

Creating a revolving loan program for specified clean energy projects.

Creating a new process for acquiring up to five hybrid diesel-electric ferries.

Funding a new account and creating a system to provide refunds for purchases of fuels exempt from the requirements of the Clean Fuels Act.

Resolution supporting a national infrastructure bank.

Placing a Constitutional amendment on the ballot requiring revenue from road use charges and similar measures to be used for highways.