HB1780 – Requiring Ecology to ensure that the price impacts of the cap and invest program are not experienced by users of fuels for aviation, watercraft, agriculture and other off-road equipment. (Dead.)
Prime Sponsor – Representative Schmick (R; 9th District; Southeast Washington) (Co-Sponsor Dye – R)
Current status – Referred to the House Committee on Environment & Energy. Still in committee by cutoff.
Next step would be – Dead bill.
Legislative tracking page for the bill.

Comments –
SB5728 addresses the same issue in a somewhat narrower and more tightly drafted way.

Summary –
The bill would require Ecology create a program refunding inappropriate cap and invest surcharges for fuels with emissions exempted by the bill to users. (These include aviation and watercraft fuels, as well as dyed diesel used exclusively for agricultural purposes and off-road purposes.) Remittances would have to be available at least once a month to users submitting valid documentation showing that the surcharges had been applied when they shouldn’t have been.

Far more sweepingly, the bill also says that any rules Ecology adopts for the cap and invest program “must ensure that the price impacts of the program are not experienced by users of exempt fuel.”