HB1904 – Using cap and invest revenue to pay for hybrid electric ferries.
Prime Sponsor – Representative Walsh (R; 19th District; Southwest Washington)
Current status – Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
Next step would be – Action by the committee.
Legislative tracking page for the bill.
Summary –
The bill’s opening says says the Legislature finds “that all costs associated with building hybrid electric ferries and their associated infrastructure must be paid for using Climate Commitment Act revenues.”
However, the bill’s actual provisions simply say that some unspecified amount of revenue from the Act must be used by the Department of Transportation to design, purchase, and construct hybrid electric ferry vessels and install associated and necessary infrastructure for their operation. (“Ferries” are already on the list of projects that transportation appropriations from the Act’s revenues may be used for; the bill would change that item to read “All aspects of ferry vessel construction and supporting electrification infrastructure”, which actually still seems to allow using those funds for conventional ferries as well.)