SB6019 – Tax exemptions for waste to energy plants
Prime Sponsor – Senator Palumbo (D; 1st District; parts of Whatcom, Skagit, Snohomish & eastern King County)
Current status – Referred to Senate Committee on Environment, Energy & Technology. Still in committee by 2019 cutoff; reintroduced and retained in present status for 2020 session. Failed to make it out of committee by 2020 cutoff; dead bill.
Next step would be –
Legislative tracking page for the bill.

Summary –
Establishes various tax incentives, expiring in 2030, for new waste to energy plants built within a mile of an existing landfill, and for new manufacturing within five miles that uses the power from such a plant. (It also says that they have to be operating under Federal and State environmental laws and regulations, except that “permit actions to site an energy recovery facility may be exempt from compliance” with the State’s Environmental Policy Act.)

Details:

It exempts such plants from the B&O tax; exempts the sale of the power the plants produce from the public utility tax; and exempts the purchase of machinery, materials and equipment for them, and labor and services for their construction, from sales and use taxes.

It exempts the purchase of machinery, materials, and equipment for such manufacturing facilities, and labor and services for their construction, from sales and use taxes, provided that the new plant maintains at least twenty-five family living wage jobs for at least ten years.