HB1236  – Improving access to renewable hydrogen for public transportation.
Prime Sponsor – Representative Hackney (D; 11th District; Renton & Tukwila) (Co-Sponsors Abbarno – R;  Senn, Reed, Doglio, Ramel, and Lekanoff – Ds)
Current status – Had a hearing in the Senate Committee on Environment, Energy and Technology March 10th and passed out of committee March 24th. Referred to Rules, and passed by the Senate April 12th.
Next step would be – To the Governor.
Legislative tracking page for the bill.
SB5325 is a companion bill in the Senate.

In the House – Passed
Had a hearing in the House Committee on Environment and Energy January 30th. Replaced by a substitute and passed out of committee February 2nd. Referred to Rules, and passed by the House February 16th.

Substitute –
The substitute extends the bill’s provisions to include other types of public transit agencies.

Summary –
The bill would authorize public transportation benefit areas to produce, distribute and sell green electrolytic hydrogen and renewable hydrogen wholesale or directly to a user in addition to using it for their own operations. If it were for use as a transportation fuel, they’d be allowed to sell it through facilities that distributed, compressed, stored, liquified, or dispensed it. They’d be authorized to own and operate pipelines to deliver it for use as a transportation fuel if those were in an area in which they were authorized to provide public transportation, a county in which they were authorized to do that and in which they were service connected or providing it through partners. (I’m not sure if the bill’s language intends to limit all their authority to hydrogen for transportation, but I don’t think it’s supposed to authorize them to produce and sell it for other uses through some other organization that distributes it.) They wouldn’t be allowed to deliver it by pipeline to customers of a gas company.