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Climate items in Governor’s 2024 Supplemental Budget Proposal

Transportation

• HB1368
  Requiring and funding purchases of zero-emission school buses after September 2035.
• HB1887
  Loosening the cap & invest program's requirements, expanding its biofuels exemption, providing refunds for exempted fuel purchases, & temporarily lowering license fees.
• HB1904
  Using cap and invest revenue to pay for hybrid electric ferries.
• HB2028
  Prohibiting direct retail sales or leases of vehicles & some subscription services; limiting manufacturers' ability to get dealers to install fast chargers.
• HB2040
  Creating a rebate program to compensate vehicle owners for increases in fuel costs due to the Climate Commitment Act.
• HB2050
  Requires posting stickers on fuel pumps showing the effects of State and Federal taxes and the Climate Commitment Act on fuel prices.
• HB2189
  Exempting regular hybrids, which can't be charged with an external electrical power source, from the additional $75 registration fee they and plugin vehicles currently pay.
• HB2232
  Assessing petroleum products supply and pricing.
• HB2262
  Creating and enforcing energy efficiency standards for replacement tires. (Dead)
• HB2410
  Providing the reduced B&O tax rate for producing alternative jet fuel to much smaller companies in distressed areas.
• HB2444
  Defining the legal liabilities associated with the operation of autonomous vehicles.
• HB2486
  Extending the commute trip reduction tax credit program and increasing the benefits.
• SB5594
  Allowing fully autonomous vehicles with requestable remote intervention on public roads, with nearly the same rules as human drivers'.
• SB5783
  Loosening cap & invest program's requirements, expanding its biofuels exemption, providing refunds for exempted fuel purchases, & temporarily lowering license fees.
• SB5812
  Requiring a study of best practices for responding to electric vehicle fires.
• SB5872
  Requires a human safety operator in any autonomous vehicle operated on the highway.
• SB5909
  Reimbursing tow truck operators for the towing, transport, and storage of electric vehicles; providing grants to protect facilities from risks associated with storing them.
• SB5945
  Prohibiting direct retail sales or leases of vehicles & some subscription services; limiting manufacturers' ability to get dealers to install fast chargers.
• SB5951
  Repealing the State's authorization to allow charging by the public at locations where it's providing the power.
• SB6052
  Assessing petroleum products supply and pricing.
• SB6229
  Allowing the Department of Transportation to set the matching requirement for a Green Transportation Capital Grant at the level it deems appropriate.
• SB6240
  Providing the reduced B&O tax rate for producing alternative jet fuel to much smaller companies in distressed areas.
• SB6304
  Implementing recommendations of the transportation electrification strategy.

Climate Committment Act

• HB1887
  Loosening the cap & invest program's requirements, expanding its biofuels exemption, providing refunds for exempted fuel purchases, & temporarily lowering license fees.
• HB1965
  Providing fossil fuel facilities that aren't owned or operated by utilities with free Climate Commitment Act allowances to cover their emissions from generating power delivered in the state.
• HB2040
  Creating a rebate program to compensate vehicle owners for increases in fuel costs due to the Climate Commitment Act.
• HB2050
  Requires posting stickers on fuel pumps showing the effects of State and Federal taxes and the Climate Commitment Act on fuel prices.
• 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.
• HB2201
  Facilitating linkage of Washington's carbon market with the California-Quebec market.
• HB2249
  Studying the impact of including general market participants in all the auctions of allowances for the Climate Commitment Program. (Dead)
• HB2333
  Assessing the potential of state-owned natural and built assets to generate offset credits for carbon markets.
• HB2376
  Adjusting the Climate Commitment Act's provision of free allowances to municipal gas utilities.
• SB5783
  Loosening cap & invest program's requirements, expanding its biofuels exemption, providing refunds for exempted fuel purchases, & temporarily lowering license fees.
• 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)
• SB5877
  Requiring gas and electric bills to include a complete, itemized list of any rates and charges imposed by a utility to recover costs of complying with the Climate Commitment Act.
• SB5918
  Providing fossil fuel facilities that aren't owned or operated by utilities with free Climate Commitment Act allowances to cover their emissions from generating power delivered in the state.
• SB6058
  Facilitating linkage of Washington's carbon market with the California-Quebec market.

Utilities

• HB1589
  Requiring steps to transition off natural gas.
• HB1908
  Creates a grant program for utility scale renewable energy and innovative grid scale storage projects.
• HB1948
  Ensuring that methods for calculating a utility's load under the Energy Independence Act don't discourage voluntary investments in renewables.
• HB1955
  Repeals redundant 2019 bill requiring utilities to calculate and report the greenhouse gas emissions of their fuel mix.
• HB2042
  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.
• HB2069
  Authorizing public utility districts to sell biogenic carbon dioxide and other coproducts of biogas processing at wholesale.
• HB2082
  Requiring a study of the employment and workforce education needs of the electrical transmission industry.
• HB2131
  Promoting the establishment of thermal energy networks.
• 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.
• HB2234
  Revising the utility energy assistance programs for low-income households. (Dead)
• HB2253
  Providing fair access to community solar. (Dead)
• HB2376
  Adjusting the Climate Commitment Act's provision of free allowances to municipal gas utilities.
• SB5562
  Requiring steps to transition off natural gas.
• SB5570
  Authorizing electric utilities to establish revolving energy efficiency loan programs. (Dead.)
• 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)
• SB5877
  Requiring gas and electric bills to include a complete, itemized list of any rates and charges imposed by a utility to recover costs of complying with the Climate Commitment Act.
• SB5918
  Providing fossil fuel facilities that aren't owned or operated by utilities with free Climate Commitment Act allowances to cover their emissions from generating power delivered in the state.
• SB5919
  Authorizing public utility districts to sell biogenic carbon dioxide and other coproducts of biogas processing at wholesale.
• 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)
• SB6016
  Creating a green energy community fund to support schools and nonprofits in communities where public utilities' renewable energy projects are located.
• 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.
• SB6113
  Providing fair access to community solar.
• SB6138
  Promoting the establishment of thermal energy networks. (Dead)

Buildings

• HB1391
  Creating a state-wide building energy upgrade assistance program.
• HB1433
  Adopting a standard method for use in programs for the energy labeling of existing residential buildings.
• 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.
• HB2198
  Mitigating the impact of rising school temperatures resulting from climate change.
• HB2465
  Specifying procedures of the Building Code Council.
• SB5570
  Authorizing electric utilities to establish revolving energy efficiency loan programs. (Dead.)
• SB5875
  Restricts the Building Code Council's authority to adopt residential Energy Code measures increasing efficiency to those where the benefits aren't outweighed by considerations of housing affordability, development costs, feasibility, or "other similar factors".
• SB5973
  Guaranteeing owners of units in common interest communities opportunities to install their own heat pumps.
• SB6089
  Eliminating certain minimum requirement equivalencies for becoming electrical inspectors.
• SB6291
  Specifying procedures of the Building Code Council.

Energy

• HB2042
  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.
• HB2129
  Promoting the development of geothermal energy resources.
• HB2156
  Creating consumer protections for purchasers of solar energy systems.
• HB2253
  Providing fair access to community solar. (Dead)
• HB2297
  Requiring solar systems on certain new school buildings over 50,000 sq. ft when the State provides the funding.
• HB2341
  Studying the potential effects of offshore wind development on the oceanographic processes of the Pacific and marine life.
• HB2417
  Creating a revolving loan fund to support developing clean energy in the state.
• HB2429
  Making procedural changes in the Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council's consideration of applications for site certifications.
• 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)
• SB6039
  Promoting the development of geothermal energy resources.
• SB6240
  Providing the reduced B&O tax rate for producing alternative jet fuel to much smaller companies in distressed areas.
• SB6303
  Providing several fifteen year tax incentives to encourage energy storage system and component parts manufacturing in Washington.

Other

• HB1012
  Creating an extreme weather response grant program.
• 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.
• HB1185
  Updating and expanding the state's producer stewardship program for lighting products.
• HB1283
  Requiring some ESG reporting and increased ESG investment options in the State's retirement system.
• HB1574
  Expanding the Sustainable Farms and Fields grants program to place more emphasis on reducing livestock emissions.
• HB1868
  Restricting new gas outdoor lawn equipment and providing grants and tax breaks for electric alternatives.
• HB1870
  Providing local communities with technical support and matching funds for federal grant applications.
• HB1887
  Loosening the cap & invest program's requirements, expanding its biofuels exemption, providing refunds for exempted fuel purchases, & temporarily lowering license fees.
• HB1900
  Implementing strategies to achieve higher solid waste recycling rates. (Dead)
• HB1924
  Including fusion technology in state clean energy policies.
• HB1935
  Creating a Washington State Green Schools Program.
• HB1936
  Creating a B&O tax credit for farmers participating in conservation programs.
• HB1981
  Setting a preferential B&O tax rate for manufacturing fuel and/or fuel assemblies for nuclear reactors.
• HB2039
  Streamlining the appeals process for environmental and land use matters.
• HB2049
  Improving solid waste management outcomes.
• HB2051
  Reducing emissions from small off-road engines. (Dead)
• HB2068
  Reducing the environmental impacts of the clothing industry. (Dead)
• HB2073
  Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from anesthetics and studying alternatives for reducing the ones from a pesticide.
• 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.
• HB2144
  Providing for a beverage containers deposit return program implemented by a distributor responsibility organization, if it and Ecology agree on a plan.
• HB2298
  HB2298 - Establishing a climate resilience and environmental equity campus.
• HB2301
  Improving waste management systems, including products affecting composting systems.
• HB2336
  Assessing the suitability of state-owned lands for agriculture and renewable energy.
• HB2401
  Managing refrigerant gases used in appliances or other infrastructure.
• HB2405
  Integrating sustainability factors into the State Investment Board's activities.
• HB2446
  Providing increased funding for reforestation after wildfires and other destructive events.
• HB2483
  Regulating and encouraging biochar production from agricultural and forestry biomass.
• HJM4003
  Advocating a Fossil Fuel Nonproliferation Treaty. (Dead)
• SB5783
  Loosening cap & invest program's requirements, expanding its biofuels exemption, providing refunds for exempted fuel purchases, & temporarily lowering license fees.
• 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)
• SB6005
  Improving solid waste management outcomes.
• SB6092
  Requiring large businesses to report all their associated greenhouse gas emissions.
• SB6112
  Creating a ten year B&O tax credit for food donated by grocery stores and other retailers.
• SB6121
  Regulating and encouraging biochar production from agricultural and forestry biomass.
• SB6180
  Improving waste management systems, including products affecting composting systems.
• SB6243
  Exempting clean technology manufacturing from the business and occupation tax for ten years.
• SB6256
  Creating consumer protections for purchasers of solar energy systems.
• SB6278
  Creating an organic and regenerative agriculture action plan for the State.
• SB6281
  Increasing funding for reforestation after wildfires and other destructive events.