HB1436 – Suspends many environmental and land use permit requirements until a year after withdrawal of all Covid-19 restrictive orders.
Prime Sponsor – Representative Walsh (R; 19th District; Aberdeen)
Current status – Referred to the House Committee on State Government and Tribal Resources.
Next step would be – Scheduling a hearing.
Legislative tracking page for the bill.

Summary –
The bill would suspend a range of environmental and land use permit requirements until a year after withdrawal of all of the Governor’s current Covid-19 restrictive orders and his pandemic emergency declaration. It would cover permits for controlling water and air pollution, for construction projects in State waters, and any land use or environmental permit or license required from a local government for a project action. This includes “building permits, subdivisions, binding site plans, planned unit developments, conditional uses, shoreline substantial development permits, site plan review, permits or approvals required by critical area ordinances, [and] site-specific rezones authorized by a comprehensive plan or subarea plan”, but not the adoption or amendment of a comprehensive plan, subarea plan, or development regulations except as otherwise specifically included by RCW 36.70B.