HB2003 – Creating a system in which the sellers and distributors of consumer packaging and paper products are responsible for getting them collected, and then reused, recycled, or composted.
Prime Sponsor – Representative Donaghy (D; 44th District; Snohomish County) (Co-Sponsors Berry, Duerr, Fitzgibbon, Jesse Johnson, Leavitt, Peterson, Ramel, Ryu, Simmons, Macri, Bateman, Ormsby, Davis, Riccelli, Lekanoff -Ds)
Current status – Referred to Environment and Energy. Still in committee at cutoff.
Next step would be – Dead bill.
Legislative tracking page for the bill.
SB5697 is a companion bill in the Senate.

Summary –
The bill would create a system in which the sellers and distributors of consumer packaging and paper products were responsible for getting them collected, and then reused, recycled, or composted. They would be required to join a producer responsibility organization, which would submit a nine year plan for approval to the Department of Ecology, implement it, and report to Ecology on its plan performance in specified ways. Ecology would be authorized to collect a fee from producer responsibility organizations to cover the costs of the statewide needs assessment, would administer the program, and would appoint and support an advisory council for it.

The bill is 74 pages long. There’s already a proposed substitute from the prime sponsor of the Senate version, which will be heard in committee there January 18th. (It’s in the folder for the bill onb the page with the committee materials for the hearing). There’s a staff report on that.