HB1223 –Prohibiting a state 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.)
Prime Sponsor – Representative McEntire (R; 19th District; Southeast Washington) (Co-Sponsors Dye and Eslick – Rs)
Current status – Referred to the House Committee on Environment and Energy. Still in committee by cutoff.
Next step would be – Dead bill.
Legislative tracking page for the bill.
Summary –
The findings say that the bill would explicitly forbid state agencies from using the aggregate state greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets in any consideration of individual permit applications. (In fact, as I read it, it’s actually drafted in a considerably more expansive way. It amends the section of the current law establishing the limits to say:
Nothing in this section creates authority for a state agency or political subdivision of the state to rely upon or consider the limits established in [the subsection setting the limits] for purposes of individual project permit decision making or other regulatory purposes.