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Published on Mar 04, 2019

Summary of environmental bills after first cutoff deadlines

Contact: Carl Schroeder, Shannon McClelland

See below for the summary of bills we have been tracking and reported on that have passed out of committee and are awaiting floor action.

  • HB 1194 – Chemical Action Plans
  • HB 1205 – Plastic bag ban
  • HB 1290 – Faster permitting at Ecology for voluntary cleanups
  • HB 1543 – Ecology request bill to development recycling market research center and require local contamination recycling plans
  • HB 1579 – Implementing recommendations of the southern resident killer whale task force to make changes to the Hydraulic Project Approval (HPA) statutes and the single-family bulkhead policies
  • HB 1665 – Commerce to complete economic analysis of recycling system
  • HB 1691 – Concerning funding and administering local government infrastructure by the public works board
  • SB 5077 – Prohibiting single-use plastic straws
  • SB 5130 – Increasing transportation revenues to help fund state fish barrier removal
  • SB 5135 – Chemical Action Plans
  • SB 5285 – Faster permitting at Ecology for voluntary cleanups
  • SB 5293 – Governor’s request bill on energy efficiency, impacting residential building codes
  • SB 5323 – Plastic bag ban
  • SB 5397 – Producer responsibility for plastic packaging
  • SB 5545 – Ecology request bill to development recycling market research center and require local contamination recycling plans
  • SB 5788 – Concerning local government infrastructure funding
  • SB 5873 – Concerning community forests

The following bills that we reported on did not advance:

HB 1204

Producer responsibility for plastic packaging

Dead

HB 1257

Governor’s request bill on energy efficiency, impacting residential building codes

Dead

HB 1795

Hauler’s bill on changing recycling system

Dead

HB 1946

Concerning community forests

Dead

SB 5854

Hauler’s bill on changing recycling system

Dead

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