Improving the state's climate response through updates to the state's comprehensive planning framework.

Requires environmental product declarations and reporting on labor issues for materials used in constructing and renovating State buildings. (Dead)

Includes the cost of greenhouse gas emissions and the consideration of all-electric systems in the analysis of buildings the State's constructing or leasing.

More detailed regulations and lower insurance requirements for peer-to-peer car sharing businesses.

Allows state agencies to purchase paper made with lower CO2 emissions as well as 100% recycled paper.

Shifting funding obligations for non-highway transportation programs from the transportation budget to the general fund.

Allows the Safe Routes to Schools program’s funding to be used for planning, developing, and installing safe routes to new schools being constructed.

Updates some State appliance efficiency standards and adds others.

Creates an extreme weather response grant program to help fund community cooling and heating centers.

Requires the next annual meeting of Commerce, the UTC, electric utilities, and other stakeholders to specifically address the extent to which we're at risk of rolling blackouts and power supply inadequacy events.

Creates a sustainable farms and fields advisors network to assist interested food producers and processors. (Dead)

Allows using the transportation vehicle fund to plan for clean student transportation vehicles, and to develop charging and fueling infrastructure for them.

Reducing the emissions and the safety risks of insufficient overnight commercial truck parking through tax incentives. (Dead)

Modifying the State's limits on local jurisdictions' ADU requirements.

Develop a plan to conserve and restore at least 10,000 acres of kelp forests and eelgrass meadows by 2040. (Dead)

Reducing methane emissions from landfills.

Exempts local property tax increases for conservation futures from RCW 84.55.010's limits on local levies. (Dead)

Authorizes loans and grants for emergency public works broadband projects, and no longer requires UTC assessments of applications' technical feasibility.

Provides additional free allowances, reduced over time, for emissions-intensive trade-exposed facilities, and allows using cap and invest revenue for reducing their emissions.

Creates $100 B&O tax credit for each residential broadband installation and tax exemptions for developing and manufacturing broadband satellites.

Allows cities and counties to waive or defer ADU fees; defer taxes; and waive regulations for them, provided that they can't be used as short-term rentals. (Dead)

Requires cities and towns to allow microtrenching for fiber optic cables.

Increasing the accessibility and affordability of telecommunications services, devices, and training through reduced rates, grants, and planning programs.

Enhancing the requirements for autonomous vehicle testing.

Creates requirements for consultation with tribes on expenditures from the climate commitment act.

Modifying the regulation of gas companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. (Dead)

Allows public electric utilities to fund outreach and investment to convert customers' equipment from fossil fuels to electricity if they have approved plans establishing that will provide net benefits to the utility. (Dead)

Expanding the definition of the conservation projects that the Department of Enterprise Services and school districts are to implement (if they're cost effective) to include projects reducing energy demand or greenhouse gas emissions.

Strengthens State energy codes by adding reductions in net energy use, net-zero readiness, and wiring for solar in new buildings for the 2031 code cycle and by creating a residential stretch code.

Creates a benchmarking and energy management program (and eventual performance standards) for multifamily buildings of at least 50,000 sq. ft. and other buildings between 20,000 and 50,000 square feet. (Dead)

Requiring local governments to allow additional duplexes through sixplexes, stacked flats, townhouses, and courtyard apartments near major transit stops, and some of these in areas now zoned single family. (Dead)

Expanding various tax exemptions for the production, distribution, and use of hydrogen made by electrolysis.

Creates rules for owners' installations of charging stations in common interest communities such as condominiums, cooperative apartments, and developments with homeowners' associations.

Diverting organic materials from landfills, increasing composting, and reducing food waste.

Requiring ratings of the repairability of digital electronic equipment on its packaging, and creating a commission on its repairability. (Dead)

Requires manufacturers of digital electronic products to provide independent repair providers and owners access to the documentation, parts and tools for repairs that they make available to authorized service providers. (Dead)

Including clean energy projects in the Energy Facilities Site Council's permitting and monitoring, shifting the UTC's current responsibilities in that process to the Council, and making administrative changes. (Vetoed in part.)

Provides a new one-time credit for start-up costs and virtual net metering for community solar projects with low-income and low income service provider subscribers.

Marking catalytic converters with identifiers to more effectively track their ownership and identify stolen property, and creating a task force to address converter thefts.

Shifts the revenue from the Climate Commitment Act (aka the cap & invest program) to funding outdoor recreation, climate adaptation, and natural climate solutions.

Creates an EV infrastructure training program and requires electricians certified through that to be present when public chargers are being installed or maintained. (Dead)

Provides funds to help recruit or retain researchers or instructors with skills to further clean energy innovation at public academic and research institutions; provides a credit against B&O taxes for research and development spending on innovations in clean technology.

Establishes a moratorium on the Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council's siting alternative energy facilities, pending a report on the Energy Independence Act and recommendations of a Joint Legislative Committee.

Prohibits scrap metal dealers from buying a catalytic converter from anyone but a business or the owner of the vehicle from which it came; strengthens current law against removing markings from metal property.

Developing a plan for the conservation, reforestation, and restoration of forests in Washington State. (Dead)

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

Exempts zero-emission outdoor power equipment from the sales tax and imposes an additional 6.5% air quality tax on equipment with emissions.

Creating rules for the tax assessment of wind and solar facilities, and authorizing counties to enter into agreements for their annual payment of fees in place of property taxes.

Adds ten years to the tax exemption for hog fuel used for electricity, steam, heat or biofuel, shifting expiration from 2024 to 2034.

Eliminates the expiration date for the fees Ecology receives for the costs of hydropower licensing.

Creates criteria for recyclable products and packaging; prohibits "deceptive or misleading claims" about recyclability; requires increasing minimum postconsumer recycled content in plastic tubs, thermoform containers, and single-use cups.

Requires property leases for solar or wind projects to include and maintain a decommissioning plan and financial assurance of the project owner’s capacity to implement it.

Creates a ten year sales and use tax deferral for projects investing at least $2 million in clean technology manufacturing, clean alternative fuels production, generating renewable electricity, or storing it, with options for reducing or eliminating the deferred taxes.

Making a second or subsequent theft of a catalytic converter or other metal a Class B rather than a Class C felony, and lengthening the sentence if a thief confronted someone trying to prevent the theft.

Expanding the incentive program for affordable housing to include tiny houses.

Creating a system in which the sellers and distributors of consumer packaging and paper products are responsible for getting them collected, and then reused, recycled, or composted. (Dead)

Includes requiring design review boards to allow for buildings with Passive House, LEED, or Living Building Challenge certifications, and provides accelerated permitting for them. (Dead)

Implementing a pilot program collecting a per mile road use charge on vehicles in place of the gas tax.

Requiring local governments to accept building applications from certain professionals as complete; excluding some expansion and remodeling projects from local review; and streamlining processes

Allows a regional transit authority to create enhanced service zones with improved service from rail or high capacity systems, to be approved by residents of the zone and financed by them.

Requires local governments to exempt certain infill development from the State Environmental Policy Act's requirements. (That's an option for them now.) (Dead)

Drops a requirement for reporting moving violations by autonomous vehicles in testing programs, and requires a plan for interactions with the vehicle in emergency and traffic enforcement situations. (Dead)

Drops a requirement for reporting moving violations by autonomous vehicles in testing programs, and requires a plan for interactions with the vehicle in emergency and traffic enforcement situations. (Dead.)

2022 Transportation Package.

Adding a section to the Washington Constitution on the conservation and protection of the state's natural resources.

Delays vesting of development rights associated with actions under the Growth Management Act until sixty days after final planning decisions are made.

Sets the additional alternative fuel vehicle registration fee for electric motorcycles at $30 a year.

Requiring a study of the feasibility of recycling wind turbine blades installed in the state.

Facilitating transit-oriented development through grants to cities and counties paying the costs of preparing environmental analyses that can be used by applicants for development permits.

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

Requires environmental product declarations and reporting on labor issues for materials used in constructing and renovating State buildings.

Requires Ecology to develop a program for collecting, managing, and recycling wind turbine blades, paid for by the manufacturers.

Reopens the Renewable Energy System Incentive Program, but only for residential systems.

Prohibits products that contain olefins derived from methanol manufactured from natural gas.

Prohibits scrap metal dealers from buying a catalytic converter from anyone but a business or the owner of the vehicle from which it came. (Dead)

Requires a report to the Legislature on the global availability of lithium and rare earth minerals used in battery manufacturing. (Dead)

Allows a regional transit authority to create enhanced service zones with improved service from rail or high capacity systems, to be approved by residents of the zone and financed by them.

Creates a program providing rebates for new all electric landscaping equipment in exchange for operating gas and diesel equipment that would be scrapped or recycled.

Authorizes loans and grants for emergency public works broadband projects, and no longer requires UTC assessments of applications' technical feasibility. (Dead)

Eliminates the expiration date for the Marine Advisory Council, which works on addressing the impacts of ocean acidification.

Allows using the energy efficiency account permanently for loans, loan guarantees, and grants that reduce greenhouse gas emissions for emissions-intensive, trade-exposed industries.

Develops a plan to conserve and restore at least 10,000 acres of kelp forests and eelgrass meadows by 2040.

Adding a climate resilience element to water system plans. (Dead)

Creating a voluntary, incentive-based plan to conserve at least one million acres of working forestland; and reforest at least one million acres by 2040. (Dead)

Makes commercial greenhouses with plastic roofs as well as residential ones, and temporary growing structures with permanent walls as well as those with plastic sides, exempt from the building code.

Modifying the State's limits on local jurisdictions' ADU requirements.

Creates criteria for recyclable products and packaging; prohibits "deceptive or misleading claims" about recyclability; requires increasing minimum postconsumer recycled content in plastic tubs, thermoform containers, and single-use cups. (Dead)

Allows public electric utilities to fund outreach and investment to convert customers' equipment from fossil fuels to electricity if they have approved plans establishing that will provide net benefits to the utility. (Dead)

Modifying the regulation of gas companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. (Dead)

Strengthens State energy codes by adding reductions in net energy use, net-zero readiness, and wiring for solar in new buildings for the 2031 code cycle, and by creating a residential stretch code. (Dead)

Requiring local governments to allow additional duplexes through sixplexes near major transit stops and in areas now zoned single family.

Provides for preliminary declarations by the UTC on whether proposed energy projects would comply with a utility's requirements for reducing greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Energy Transformation Act.

Creating a system in which the sellers and distributors of consumer packaging and paper products are responsible for getting them collected, and then reused, recycled, or composted. (Dead)

Creates sales and use tax deferments for large solar canopies on commercial, industrial & residential parking lots.

Increasing the Statewide Broadband Office's definition of broadband service to at least 100 megabits per second downloads and 20 megabits per second uploads.

Increasing government purchases of compost products, and creating a pilot program to reimburse farming operations for purchasing and using them.

Creates a benchmarking and energy management program (and eventual performance standards) for multifamily buildings of at least 50,000 sq. ft. and other buildings between 20,000 and 50,000 square feet.

Diverting organic materials from landfills, increasing composting, and reducing food waste. (Dead)

Requiring new buildings over 50,000 sq. ft. to include green, agrivoltaic, or bio-solar roofs, or to make a cash-in-lieu payment for local climate resiliency programs. (Dead)

Creates a ten year sales and use tax deferral for projects investing at least $2 million in clean technology manufacturing, clean alternative fuels production, generating renewable electricity, or storing it, with options for reducing or eliminating the deferred taxes.

Requires cities and towns to allow microtrenching for fiber optic cables.

Requires manufacturers of portable flat screen digital electronics to provide independent repair providers and owners access to the documentation, parts and tools for repairs that they make available to authorized service providers.

Limits review and appeals under the State Environmental Policy Act and Growth Management Act to promote housing construction in cities.

Drops a requirement for reporting moving violations by autonomous vehicles in testing programs, and requires a plan for interactions with the vehicle in emergency and traffic enforcement situations. (Dead)

Removing plastic carryout bags as an option for use at retail establishments; making the 8¢ charge for paper carryout bags permanent.

Making adjustments to the Climate Commitment Act, and creating an Executive Office of Climate Policy and Accountability in the Department of Ecology.

Extends the reduced B&O tax rate for manufacturers of solar systems and components for five years; creates 10 year property tax exemption for new Industrial or manufacturing facilities in designated areas.

Has the county or county treasurer take any steps in foreclosure proceedings to facilitate the enforcement of a CPACER lien that can't be done by the capital provider.

Would allow any electricity produced with less than the average emissions of new combined-cycle natural gas turbines to keep being sold in spite of the State requirement for carbon-free electricity by 2045. (Dead)

Shifts a report by the Department of Enterprise Services on the use of electricity to recharge vehicles at State Offices from an option to a requirement. (Dead)

Requiring multimodal transportation options at drive-up services. (Dead)

Creating a Clean Car Authority to distribute, coordinate and oversee electric vehicle grants.

Accelerating the availability and use of renewable and electrolytic  hydrogen.

Requires state and local governments to use biochar products in projects when it's feasible, with various exceptions.

Planning for and implementing the conservation or restoration of 30% of Washington's lands and waters by 2030.

Imposing a state climate resiliency and mitigation surcharge on large financial institutions financing the global fossil fuel industry.

2022 Transportation Package.

Senate Joint Memorial expressing support for a National Infrastructure Bank.

Senate Joint Memorial urging the Federal government to move forward with steps to manage and permanently store spent fuel from commercial nuclear plants.

Urging the United States Government to enter into a fossil fuel nonproliferation treaty.

Adding a section to the Washington Constitution on the conservation and protection of the state's natural resources.

Submitting a Constitutional amendment to the voters requiring revenue from any miles traveled tax to be used exclusively for highways.