Puget Sound Partnership Legislative Update, February 25, 2021

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February 25, 2021

The Puget Sound Partnership's Legislative Update highlights issues related to our region's work to protect and recover Puget Sound.

  

The 2021 Regular Session of the Washington State Legislature has reached a major milestone. Monday, February 22, was the last day for policy bills to be passed out of fiscal and transportation committees in their house of origin. The previous Monday, February 15, was the last day for policy bills to be passed by policy committees. Most bills that failed to survive these cutoff dates are likely dead for this current session. A small number of bills are considered exempt—those considered necessary to implement budgets—and remain alive until session adjourns on April 25. Policy bills that survived the cutoff dates remain eligible to be passed by their house of origin until March 9, after which, the Senate can only act on House policy bills and the House can only act on Senate policy bills.

In addition to ongoing action on policy bills on the floor of the House and Senate, the fiscal and transportation committees of both houses are busy developing their respective versions of operating, capital, and transportation budgets. These proposed budgets are expected to be made public some time shortly after the next State Revenue Forecast, which comes out no later than March 20. The Senate will initiate action on budget bills this year. The Governor’s operating, capital, and transportation budget bills are all listed at the end of this update. The Puget Sound Partnership has previously ranked all Puget Sound-related state agency budget requests.

The following is a status report on the bills—organized by topic area—we at the Partnership are following this session. Fortunately, all bills previously identified as legislative priorities by the Puget Sound Partnership’s Leadership Council survived the cutoff dates and remain alive until at least March 9.

Salmon Recovery

HB 1114 (Dye) – Encouraging utility mitigation of urban heat island effects.

Status: H. 2nd Reading Calendar (H. Environment & Energy passed substitute 2/12)

  • Provides legislative intent encouraging municipal electric utilities and public utility districts (PUDs) to assist retail electric customers in the acquisition and installation of materials and equipment, for compensation or otherwise, for the conservation of energy including, but not limited to, appropriate tree plantings as well as materials and equipment installed as part of a utility cool roof program.
  • Establishes certain goals that any tree planting program engaged in by a municipal electric utility, PUD, or investor-owned utility should accomplish.
  • Allows municipal utilities, PUDs, and investor-owned utilities to use voluntary donations for urban forestry solicited from retail electric customers to fund a tree planting program that accomplishes the goals of the statewide policy.
  • Authorizes the Utilities and Transportation Commission to adopt a policy allowing an incentive rate of return on investment in investor-owned utilities' tree planting programs and cool roof programs.

 

HB 1117 (Lekanoff) – Promoting salmon recovery through revisions to the state's comprehensive planning framework.

Status: H. Rules R (H. Appropriations passed 2nd Substitute 2/22)

Summary of 1st Substitute:

  • Adds a goal of salmon recovery to the listed goals of the Growth Management Act (GMA).
  • Requires the land use element of comprehensive plans adopted under the GMA to include a strategy that achieves net ecological gain of salmon habitat.
  • Requires the capital facilities element and transportation element of comprehensive plans adopted under the GMA to address the elimination of fish passage barriers.
  • Requires the Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) to adopt rules that establish criteria for net ecological gain and consistency with applicable regional salmon recovery plans that certain counties must meet through the adoption of comprehensive plans.
  • Requires development regulations that protect critical areas to apply certain mitigation requirements.
  • Requires WDFW to monitor the progress that certain counties and cities have made toward achieving net ecological gain.
  • Requires WDFW to provide a report of its monitoring to the Governor, the Legislature, and local governments.

Proposed 2nd Substitute House Bill (H-1017.3) compared to the Substitute House Bill 1117 (H-0815.1):

  • Modifies the definitions of the following terms: "mitigation hierarchy requirement," "net ecological gain," "rural character," and "watershed."
  • Clarifies that the requirement for comprehensive plans to be consistent with applicable salmon recovery plans applies to recovery plans adopted under the federal Endangered Species Act and under the Salmon Recovery Act, chapter 77.85 RCW.
  • Specifies that in the course of a public project's obligation to achieve net ecological gain, the public project may not rely on existing salmon recovery projects funded and implemented by other entities.
  • Excludes facilities covered by a hydropower license issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission or included in a habitat conservation plan approved under the federal Endangered Species Act from the requirement that the capital facilities element and transportation element of comprehensive plans include a schedule for the elimination of all identified fish passage barriers.
  • Clarifies the different types of communication that the Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) must engage in with federally recognized Indian tribes and with local governments in the course of the WDFW's adoption of rules.
  • Removes a requirement that the WDFW develop targets as part of its salmon recovery monitoring efforts.
  • Requires the WDFW to facilitate an ongoing and collaborative process for the purpose of identifying gaps and targets related to salmon habitat and funding, to be informed by its monitoring work.
  • Modifies the subject-to-funding clause to provide that the obligation of local governments to comply with certain requirements set forth in the bill is contingent on the appropriation and distribution to local governments of funds for the specific purpose of complying with the requirements. Local governments may not be required to comply with certain requirements set forth in the bill until funds sufficient to cover applicable local government costs are appropriated and distributed by the state at least two years before local governments must update their comprehensive plans according to the timeline established in the Growth Management Act.
  • Adds a null-and-void clause.

 

HB 1172 (Lekanoff) - Recognizing judicially affirmed and treaty-reserved fishing rights and promoting state-tribal cooperative agreements in the management of salmon, trout, and steelhead resources. (AG request)

Status: H. Rules R (Passed by Rural Development, Ag & Natural Resources on 2/3, 10 AM)

  • Repeals Initiative 456 (1984), which established a state law declaring that only the state could manage natural resources and that tribal treaty rights were not enforceable.

 

HB 1382  (Tharinger) – Streamlining the environmental permitting process for salmon recovery projects - Status: H. Rules R (H. Appropriations passed amended substitute 2/22 (H. Rural Development, Ag, & Natural Resources passed substitute, 2/12.)

Effect of substitute as passed 2/12, 8:00 AM

  • Removes projects funded under the Family Forest Fish Passage Program from the list of projects permitted under the pilot project.
  • Adds fish recovery projects sponsored by an Indian tribe, and fish acclimation facility projects sponsored or operated by an Indian tribe, to the list of projects permitted under the pilot project.
  • Adds a requirement that projects be reviewed with the Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, and take certain other steps, with regard to cultural resources.
  • Requires, for projects that require a lease or other land use authorization from the Department of Natural Resources (DNR), the project applicant to include in its permit application a signed Joint Aquatic Resources Permit Application, Attachment E, and to provide a copy of a completed application to the DNR no fewer than 30 days before the application may be filed with the Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW).
  • Changes the minimum length of time in which the WDFW must make a decision on an application under the pilot project from 15 days to 25 days.
  • Adds potentially affected Indian tribes to the list of entities that may request that the WDFW place a project application on hold and convene the multiagency permitting team established as part of the pilot project.

Effect of House Appropriations Committee amendment: Makes the bill null and void if specific funding is not provided in the operating budget.

 

SB 5146 (Van De Wege) - Authorizing the Fish and Wildlife Commission to indemnify the federal government as a condition of securing certain funds. Status: Senate passed 49-0 on 2/23/2021.

  • Authorizes the Fish and Wildlife Commission to indemnify the United States and its agencies as a condition of securing federal funds for purposes of fish, shellfish, and wildlife projects.

 

SB 5220 (Van De Wege) - Concerning the taxation of salmon recovery grants by updating the state business and occupation tax deduction for these grants, creating a sales and use tax exemption for grant proceeds received by recipients of these grants, and clarifying the sales and use tax obligations for goods and services purchased by recipients of these grants. (Dept. of Revenue request). Status: S. Rules 2 (Passed by S. Ways & Means 2/22; passed by S. Ag, Water, NR, & Pks; 1/28)

  • Exempts salmon recovery grants provided to nonprofit organizations from retail sales and use tax.
  • Expands the business and occupation tax deduction for salmon recovery grants to nonprofit organizations to include grants from tribal governments.

 

SB 5273 (Salomon) - Concerning the replacement of shoreline armoring.

Status: H. Rural Dev., Ag, & NR (Senate passed substitute 28-21 on 2/18/2021)

  • Requires a person replacing a residential marine bulkhead to use the least impacting technically feasible bank protection alternative for the protection of fish life.

 

 

SB 5330 (Van De Wege) - Regarding commercial whale watching licenses

Status: S. Rules 2 (S. Ag, Water, Natural Resources & Parks; passed substitute, 2/11)

  • Waives certain commercial whale watching license fees for 24 months, beginning May 1, 2021.
  • Provides that, until July 1, 2023, the prohibition in rule establishing a no-go zone on the west side of San Juan Island applies only when southern resident orca whales are present. 

 

SB 5381 - Addressing fish passage project permit streamlining.

Status: S. Rules 2 (S. Transportation passed substitute, 2/18 - PSSB 5381 HOBBS S-1015.1 Adopted)

  • Establishes that Department of Transportation (DOT) fish barrier correction portions of broader transportation projects may receive a streamlined project review for hydraulic permit approvals and shortens the Department of Fish and Wildlife's timeline for reviewing DOT fish barrier correction projects.
  • Clarifies that local governments are allowed to charge fees or impose requirements, or both, for fish habitat enhancement projects in order to comply with National Flood Insurance Program requirements.
  • Exempts public fish or wildlife habitat projects or fish passage projects from the substantial development permit requirements of the Shoreline Management Act.
  • Requires DOT to work with the Department of Ecology, Department of Fish and Wildlife, and federal environmental permitting agencies to streamline the federal permitting process for fish passage barrier correction projects.

Salmon recovery bills dead for this session

HB 1211 (Dye) – Concerning salmon-safe communities

HB 1268 (Shewmake) - Clarifying the authority of local governments to administer national flood insurance program regulation requirements in the context of fish habitat enhancement projects authorized pursuant to RCW 77.55.181.

HB 1364 (Young) – Addressing the impacts of pinnipeds on populations of threatened southern resident orca prey.

SB 5207 (Wilson, J.) - Concerning environmental permit streamlining.

SB 5306 (Salomon) - Concerning local salmon habitat recovery planning in critical areas.

SB 5404 (Rivers) - Addressing the impacts of pinnipeds on populations of threatened southern resident orca prey.

Climate Change

HB 1091 (SB 5231) (Fitzgibbon) – Reducing greenhouse gas emissions by reducing the carbon intensity of transportation fuel. (Gov. request)

Status: H. 2nd Reading Calendar (H. Transportation passed 3rd substitute 2/19)

Summary of 3rd Substitute:

  • Directs the Department of Ecology (Ecology) to adopt rules establishing a Clean Fuels Program (CFP) to limit the aggregate, overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions per unit of transportation fuel energy to 10 percent below 2017 levels by 2028 and 20 percent below 2017 levels by 2035.
  • Directs Ecology to update, prior to 2032, CFP rules to further reduce GHG emissions from each unit of transportation fuel for each year through 2050, consistent with statutory state emission reduction limits.
  • Excludes exported fuel, fuel used by vessels, railroad locomotives, and aircraft, and certain other categories of transportation fuel from the CFP's GHG emission intensity reduction requirements.
  • Requires the CFP to include processes for the registering, reporting, and tracking of compliance obligations and to establish bankable, tradeable credits used to satisfy compliance obligations.
  • Requires annual reporting by Ecology on the CFP, as well as an analysis of the program's first five years by the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee.
  • Retains the current distribution of revenue under the 2015 Transportation Revenue Package, eliminating changes that would have been triggered as a result of the establishment of a CFP.
  • Requires Ecology to improve internal processes to expedite the processing of environmental reviews under the State Environmental Policy Act and for permit applications for projects related to the production of low-carbon transportation fuels.

HB 1099 (Duerr) - Improving the state's climate response through updates to the state's comprehensive planning framework

Status: H. Rules R (H. Appropriations passed 2nd Substitute 2/22 (H. Environment & Energy passed substitute 1/29)

  • Adds a goal of climate change mitigation to the listed goals of the Growth Management Act (GMA).
  • Adds a climate change and resiliency element to the list of elements that must be included within the comprehensive plans that certain counties and cities must adopt under the GMA.
  • Requires the Department of Commerce (Commerce), in consultation with other state agencies, to publish guidelines that specify a set of actions counties and cities have available to them to take related to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions and vehicle miles traveled (VMT) reductions.
  • Requires the climate change and resiliency element of the comprehensive plan of certain counties and cities to identify actions the jurisdiction will take, consistent with guidelines adopted by Commerce, to reduce GHG emissions and VMT.
  • Requires the climate change and resiliency element of the comprehensive plan of certain counties and cities to address the adverse impacts of climate change on people, property, and ecological systems.
  • Specifies the process by which the GHG emissions reduction sub-element of the climate change and resiliency element takes effect.
  • Requires Commerce to adopt guidance that creates a model climate change and resiliency element.
  • Requires the Department of Ecology to update its Shoreline Master Program guidelines to require Shoreline Master Programs to address the impact of sea level rise and increased storm severity.
  • Adds consideration of climate change impacts to the list of elements that must be contained in optional comprehensive flood control management plans.

SB 5126 (Carlyle) – Concerning the Washington Climate Commitment Act. (Gov Request)

  • Status: Environment, Energy, & Tech; Exec: 2/25, 8:00 AM (NTIB – exempt from cutoff resolution)
  • Requires the Governor to establish a comprehensive program to implement the state’s climate commitment and convene a Climate Commitment Task Force.
  • Establishes a cap and invest program for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to be implemented by the Department of Ecology (Ecology).
  • Directs distribution of auction revenues for specified purposes including clean transportation, natural climate resiliency, clean energy transition and assistance, and energy efficiency projects.
  • Convenes an Environmental Justice and Equity Advisory Panel to provide recommendations on the development and implementation of the cap and invest program.
  • Authorizes Ecology to require persons who produce or distribute fossil fuels or other products that emit GHG in Washington, to comply with air quality standards, emission standards, or GHG emission limitations.
  • Provides a definition of emission, emission standard, and emission limitation as applied to GHG emissions that includes indirect emissions from the production or distribution of petroleum products or natural gas.
  • Fiscal Note: $250 million in first biennium, $500 million is second biennium, and $1 billion in third biennium

SB 5373 (Lovelett) – Concerning carbon pollution (“Washington Strong”)

Status: S. Environment, Energy, & Technology

  • Establishes a carbon pollution tax on fossil fuels, except those used to generate electricity
  • Establishes a 10-year climate finance program
  • Establishes a Climate Finance Account where funds from the tax must be deposited and used first for payment of principal and interest on bonds
  • Revenue must be used to fund projects and activities that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate the environmental impacts of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change

HB 1513 (Lekanoff) - Improving environmental health by reducing carbon emissions through increasing climate resilience and mitigating the effects of climate change by levying a carbon pollution tax, authorizing a climate finance bond program, and investing in clean economic growth.

Status: H. Environment & Energy (introduced 2/9; likely NTIB – exempt from cutoffs)

 

 

Climate change bills dead for this session

SHB 1084 - Reducing statewide greenhouse gas emissions by achieving greater decarbonization of residential and commercial buildings (Governor’s request)

Growth Management Act

HB 1099 (Duerr) - Improving the state's climate response through updates to the state's comprehensive planning framework. Status: H. Rules R (H. Appropriations passed 2nd Substitute 2/22 (H. Environment & Energy passed substitute 1/29)

 

HB 1117 (Lekanoff) – Promoting salmon recovery through revisions to the state's comprehensive planning framework. Status: H. Rules R (H. Appropriations passed 2nd Substitute 2/22)

HB 1232 (Barkis) - Planning for affordable housing under the growth management act. Status: H. 2nd Reading Calendar (H. Local Government passed 2/15)

  • Requires cities and counties planning under the Growth Management Act to include single-family residences such as detached dwellings, duplexes, triplexes, and townhomes in urban growth areas (UGAs) in the housing element of the comprehensive plan.
  • Requires that cities and counties that do not plan for each specified housing type, including single-family residences such as detached dwellings, duplexes, triplexes, and townhomes in a UGA, to explain how the county as a whole and the cities within the county will meet existing and projected housing needs.
  • Requires consideration of housing locations in relation to employment locations in the housing element of the comprehensive plan.
  • Requires countywide planning policies to be updated at least 14 months before the deadline to update a comprehensive plan, and to address how counties and cities will jointly meet the land use element requirements.

HB 1241 (Duerr) - Planning under the growth management act. Status: H. Rules R (H. Local Government passed substitute, 2/12)

  • Increases the review and revision cycle for comprehensive plans and Shoreline Master Plans from eight to 10 years.
  • Requires cities and counties with a population of 7,500 or more, that have not experienced a specified recent population decline, to produce an annual work program for implementing the comprehensive plan.
  • Requires counties and cities to submit an implementation progress report with certain required information to the Department of Commerce (Commerce) five years after reviewing and revising a comprehensive plan.
  • Requires counties, cities, and other local governments to consult with federally recognized tribes during the planning processes under the Growth Management Act upon receipt of notice from the tribes that they are planning or would like to plan, and requires planning and coordination with tribes on certain aspects of a comprehensive plan.
  • Provides that a federally recognized tribe may request formal government-to-government consultation with Commerce regarding the tribe's concern that a proposed comprehensive plan or amendment may injure rights reserved to the tribes and requires Commerce to take certain actions in response.

SB 5042 (Salomon) - Concerning the effective date of certain actions taken under the growth management act – Amend the GMA to set the effective date of certain planning actions at 60 days after notice of their adoption is published. Providing more time for review of growth planning decisions before development rights vest. Stated rationale is to slow sprawl and poorly planned growth. Status: S. 2nd Reading

  • The effective date of an action that expands a UGA; removes the designation of agricultural, forest, or mineral resource lands; creates or expands a limited area of more intensive rural development (LAMIRD); establishes a new fully contained community; or creates or expands an MPR is the later of the following dates:
    • 60 days after the date of publication of notice of adoption of the comprehensive plan, development regulation, or amendment to the plan or regulation, implementing the action; or
    • if a petition for review to the Growth Management Hearings Board is timely filed, upon issuance of the board's final order.

SB 5275 (Short) - Enhancing opportunity in limited areas of more intense rural development. Status: S. 2nd Reading. (S. Housing & LG passed substitute, 2/11)

  • Adds that (re)development within limited areas of more intense rural development be permitted subject to available public facilities and public services and be consistent with local character.
  • Requires any commercial development or redevelopment within a mixed-use area must be principally designed to serve the existing and projected rural population and meet certain size restrictions
  • Provides that in counties east of the Cascades with populations less than 75,000, the logical outer boundary of the existing area may include the areas receiving services from existing sanitary sewer systems in place upon the effective date of the act.

Growth Management Act bills dead for this session

HB 1144 (Hoff) - Concerning standing before the growth management hearings board.

HB 1233 (Barkis) - Concerning limited areas of more intensive rural development.

SB 5306 (Salomon) - Concerning local salmon habitat recovery planning in critical areas.

SB 5314 (Short) - GMA/standing & science.

Environmental Justice

SB 5141 - Implementing the recommendations of the environmental justice task force. Status: S. 2nd Reading (S. Ways & Means Passed 2nd substitute, 2/19 (Environment, Energy, & Technology passed substitute 2/9)

  • Establishes environmental justice plan implementation, equitable community engagement and public participation, tribal consultation, assessment, and budget and funding obligation requirements for the departments of Health, Ecology, Agriculture, Natural Resources, Commerce, and Transportation, and the Puget Sound Partnership.
  • Establishes the Environmental Justice Council to adopt guidelines in coordination with an interagency workgroup, evaluate the progress of agencies implementing environmental justice requirements, identify and prioritize actions for assessments, and provide a forum for the public to testify on environmental justice concerns.

SB 5052 (Keyser) - Concerning the creation of health equity zones - Directing DOH to create health equity zones to address significant health disparities. Status: S. 2nd Reading (S. Ways & Means passed 2nd Substitute, 2/17)

  • Requires the Department of Health, subject to funding, to designate health equity zones statewide and develop projects that meet the needs of each zone.
  • Allows communities to self-identify as health equity zones and develop projects.

SB 5405 - Instructing the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee to perform racial equity analyses. Status: S. Rules 2 (S. Ways & Means passed Substitute 2/22)

  • Requires the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee to incorporate a racial equity analysis or note if a racial equity analysis is not necessary or appropriate, in its performance audits, sunset reviews, and other audits or reports.

Environmental justice bills dead for this session

HB 1264 (Thai) - Establishing an equity impact statement for legislative proposals.

 

Open Public Meetings Act

HB 1056 (Pollet) - Concerning open public meeting notice requirements and declared emergencies.

Status: S. State Gov’t. & Elections – Hearing: 2/12 (House passed engrossed substitute bill 98-0 on 1/22)

  • Allows a public agency to hold meetings of its governing body remotely or with limited in-person attendance after a declared emergency.
  • Requires that the public be allowed to listen in real time and at no cost to meetings that are held remotely or with limited in-person attendance.
  • Requires all public agencies, except for certain special purpose districts, cities, and towns, to post agendas online for regular meetings and for special meetings held remotely or with limited in-person attendance.

 

HB 1329 (Wicks) - Public meetings

Status: H Rules R (H. Local Gov’t. passed substitute on 2/15)

  • Encourages public agencies to provide for remote access to meetings of their governing bodies, and to record and post recordings of meetings online for at least six months.
  • Requires governing bodies to provide an opportunity for public comment at or before every regular meeting, except in emergency situations.
  • Allows the public comment requirement to be satisfied by accepting oral testimony at a meeting, or by providing an opportunity for written testimony to be submitted prior to the meeting.
  • Requires governing bodies, upon the request of an individual who, because of disability, limited mobility, or other reason, will find physical attendance at a meeting difficult, to provide an opportunity for remote oral comment for that individual if feasible, and if oral public comment from other members of the public will be accepted at the meeting.

Open Public Meetings Act bills dead for this session

HB 1180 (Kraft) - Concerning public testimony at public meetings, including virtual meetings.

Other bills

HB 1168 - Concerning long-term forest health and the reduction of wildfire dangers

Status: H. Rules R (H. Appropriations passed 2nd substitute, 2/17)

  • Requires the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to develop a mapping tool within the Forest Health Assessment and Treatment Framework (Framework).
  • Specifies ways in which the DNR must coordinate with various entities in developing and implementing the Framework.
  • Directs the DNR to work with the Department of Commerce to implement initiatives to develop a forest health work force, and work with the Department of Corrections to expand existing programs to provide additional wildfire, forest health, and silvicultural capacity.
  • Creates the Wildfire Response, Forest Restoration, and Community Resilience Account (Account) to fund certain wildfire preparedness, prevention, and protection activities and requires the DNR to report every two years on how Account funds are used.
  • Creates a Wildland Fire Aviation Support Plan to include recommendations related to the use of dedicated air resources.
  • Creates a Small Forest Landowner Forest Health Program.
  • Makes changes to the government-to-government coordination role of the Commissioner of Public Lands.

HB 1216 - Concerning urban and community forestry.

Status: H. Rules R (H. Appropriations passed 2nd substitute 2/17)

  • Changes the name of the Community and Urban Forestry Program administered by the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to the Urban and Community Forestry Program.
  • Directs the DNR to conduct analyses of the needs and opportunities related to urban forestry in Washington.
  • Directs the DNR to provide technical assistance and capacity building resources and opportunities in order to promote urban and community forestry.

HB 1372 - Replacing Marcus Whitman statue in national statuary hall collection with statue of Billy Frank Jr

Status: H. 2nd Reading (H. Appropriations passed, 2/17; H. State Gov’t. passed sub., 2/4)

  • Expresses the Legislature's request to the United States (U.S) Joint Committee on the Library of Congress to replace the Marcus Whitman statue from the National Statuary Hall Collection at the U.S. Capitol with a statue of Billy Frank Jr., and requires the Governor to send a written request of the same.
  • Establishes the Billy Frank Jr. National Statuary Hall Selection Committee to act on behalf of the state in carrying out the replacement process.

SSB 5022 - Concerning expanded polystyrene prohibitions, optional food serviceware, and recycled content for beverage containers

Status: S. Rules 2 (S. Ways & Means passed 2nd substitute 2/18)

  • Establishes minimum recycled content requirements for plastic beverage containers.
  • Prohibits the sale and distribution of certain expanded polystyrene products.
  • Establishes optional single-use food service requirements for food service businesses.

 

SB 5063 - Concerning the expiration date of the invasive species council.

Status: S. Rules 2 (S. Ways & Means passed 2/15)

  • Changes the expiration date of the Washington State Invasive Species Council from June 30, 2022, to June 30, 2032.

Budget Bills 

Operating Budget Bills

HB 1094 (SB 5092) (Ormsby) - Making 2021-2023 fiscal biennium operating appropriations

Status: H. Appropriations

SB 5092 (HB 1094) (Rolfes) - Making 2021-2023 fiscal biennium operating appropriations

Status: S. Ways & Means

 

Capital Budget Bills

HB 1080 (SB 5083) (Tharinger) – Concerning the capital budget (OFM request)

Status: H. Capital Budget

SB 5083 (HB 1080) (Frockt) - Concerning the capital budget. (OFM request)

Status: S. Ways & Means

 

Transportation Budget Bills

HB 1135 (SB 5165) (Fey) – 2021-23 Transportation Budget (OFM request)

Status: H. Transportation 

SB 5165 (Hobbs) – Transportation budget 2021-2023 (OFM request)

Status: S. Transportation; hearing: TBA