HB1224 – Prohibits greenhouse gas emissions covered under the cap and invest program from being regulated through SEPA or the Shoreline Management Act. (Dead.)
Prime Sponsor – Representative McEntire (R; 19th District; Southeast Washington) (Co-Sponsors Graham, 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 bill would prohibit greenhouse gas emissions that would be treated as covered emissions under the cap and invest program, “including the covered emissions associated with feedstocks or material inputs used by an entity or products produced by an entity,” from being subject to evaluation under the State Environmental Policy Act, and would prohibit them from being used as the basis for the imposition of SEPA mitigation requirements or the denial of a permit through SEPA. It would also specify that submitting compliance instruments to the Department of Ecology equivalent to the covered emissions in the event that a proposed action is permitted and implemented as proposed satisfies any potential consideration of the public interest in reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the action under the Shoreline Management Act.