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Enhancing consumer access, affordability, and quality of broadband and advanced telecommunications services.
Concerning consumer protection of internet privacy.
Concerning electronic product recycling.
Concerning lead-based paint certification fees.
Concerning transparency in retail electrical customer billing.
Concerning overwater residences within a historic district listed in the Washington heritage register.
Transferring authority for low-level radioactive waste management from the department of ecology to the department of health.
Removing expiration dates, obsolete dates, and an outdated statutory reference from the enforcement provisions of the underground utility damage prevention act.
Protecting the privacy and security of internet users.
Protecting the privacy and security of internet users.
Allowing incremental electricity produced as a result of efficiency improvements to hydroelectric generation projects whose energy output is marketed by the Bonneville power administration to qualify as an eligible renewable resource under the energy independence act.
Regarding the funding of oil spill prevention and oil spill response.
Cleaning up contaminated sites across Washington.
Clarifying that a city or town is prohibited from using electric rates to subsidize telecommunication services.
Providing incentives for carbon reduction investments in rural manufacturing.
Requesting that the Bonneville Power Administration consider a rate design for the eastern intertie that eliminates or reduces the transmission rate associated with that part of the eastern intertie known as the Montana intertie.
Creating the wastewater treatment plant operator certification account.
Concerning asphalt pavement sealer products.
Addressing contaminated drinking water stemming from the lead content in drinking water infrastructure, including pipes, connections, and fixtures.
Relating to utility relocation costs.
Concerning telecommunications services.
Concerning the authority of port districts to provide telecommunications services.
Concerning the use of solid fuel burning devices.
Limiting the enforcement of policies of the department of ecology.
Promoting an equitable clean energy economy by creating a carbon tax that allows investment in clean energy, clean air, healthy forests, and Washington's communities.
Concerning imposing a surtax on the possession of hazardous substances.
Ensuring economic development through the provision of telecommunications services to underserved and unserved customers.
Promoting a sustainable, local renewable energy industry through modifying renewable energy system tax incentives and providing guidance for renewable energy system component recycling.
Including nuclear energy in the principles that guide development and implementation of the state's energy strategy.
Providing a business and occupation tax exemption for manufacturers of small modular reactors.
Concerning oil transportation safety.
Including nuclear energy in the definition of a "qualified alternative energy resource" for the purposes of RCW 19.29A.090.
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Creating a tax on plastic shopping bags.
Promoting the completion of environmental impact statements within two years.
Concerning paint stewardship.
Strengthening funding for oil spill programs in Washington by increasing revenue to the oil spill prevention account.
Creating a fossil fuel carbon pollution tax.
Extending the expiration date of the public utility tax exemption for certain electrolytic processing businesses.
Requesting that certain federal officials prevent the breaching of any dam in the Columbia River system.
Directing the completion of a study of certain environmental impacts, including ultrafine particulate emissions, associated with aircraft traffic in areas impacted by airport operations.
Concerning independent remedial actions under the model toxics control act.
Concerning department of ecology's reporting requirements on greenhouse gas emissions.
Ensuring economic development by authorizing public utility districts to provide retail telecommunications services.
Concerning electronic product recycling.
Exempting short-line railroads that haul nonfuel oils from oil spill contingency planning requirements.
Limiting oil spill contingency planning requirements to those railroads that haul oils used as fuel.
Concerning distributed generation.
Promoting a sustainable, local renewable energy industry through modifying renewable energy system tax incentives and providing guidance for renewable energy system component recycling.
Concerning irrigation district authority.
Promoting the completion of environmental impact statements within two years.
Allowing incremental electricity produced as a result of certain capital investment projects to qualify as an eligible renewable resource under the energy independence act.
Exempting short-line railroads that haul nonfuel oils from oil spill contingency planning requirements.
Advancing the development of renewable energy by improving the permitting process for geothermal resources exploration.
Continuing to protect water quality by aligning state brake friction material restrictions with the requirements of a similar nationwide agreement.
Clarifying procedures for appointment to the Chehalis board created by chapter 194, Laws of 2016.
Concerning the exemption from public disclosure of information regarding public and private computer and telecommunications networks.
Addressing transient accommodations contaminated by methamphetamine.
Directing the department of ecology to submit an annual report to the legislature detailing the department's participation in interagency agreements.
Concerning the frequency of Puget Sound action agenda implementation strategy and science work plan updates.
Concerning irrigation district authority.
Concerning utility easements on state-owned aquatic lands.
Concerning petroleum storage tank systems.
Removing expiration dates, obsolete dates, and an outdated statutory reference from the enforcement provisions of the underground utility damage prevention act.
Creating the wastewater treatment plant operator certification account.
Clarifying procedures for appointment to the Chehalis board created by chapter 194, Laws of 2016.
Creating an exemption to the definition of substantial development in chapter 90.58 RCW relating to the retrofitting of existing structures to accommodate physical access by individuals with disabilities.
Authorizing county legislative authorities to approve certain group B water systems based upon their delivery of water meeting safe drinking water standards.
Ensuring that restrictions on the use of solid fuel burning devices do not prohibit the installation or replacement of solid fuel burning devices or the use of these devices during temporary outages of other sources of heat.
Clarifying that the provisions of chapter 70.95 RCW do not apply to steel slag that is a product of production in the electric arc steel-making process and is managed as an item of commercial value and placed in commerce.
Concerning the authority of the pollution liability insurance agency.
Concerning risk mitigation plans to promote the transition of eligible coal units.
Allowing incremental electricity produced as a result of certain capital investment projects to qualify as an eligible renewable resource under the energy independence act.
Concerning water power license fees.
Increasing the available term of water pollution control revolving fund program loans to reflect the 2014 amendments to the federal clean water act allowing such an increase.
Clarifying expenditures under the state universal communications services program.
Concerning the marine resources advisory council.
Modifying administrative processes for the utilities and transportation commission in managing deposits and cost reimbursements of the energy facility site evaluation council.
Providing sales and use tax exemptions to encourage coal-fired electric generation plants to convert to natural gas-fired plants.
Promoting a sustainable, local renewable energy industry through modifying renewable energy system tax incentives and providing guidance for renewable energy system component recycling.
Creating new appliance efficiency standards.
Continuing state efforts to increase oil transportation safety.
Concerning paint stewardship.
Concerning contingency plans for the transport of biological oils and blends by railroads.
Prioritizing the expenditure of funds associated with the model toxics control act for the cleanup of toxic pollution.
Creating a task force on Washington's clean energy economy.
Improving the accuracy and transparency of the reporting and calculation of the fuel mix information to retail electric customers.
Ensuring safe playgrounds and turf fields.
Clarifying the application of chapter 81.77 RCW as it relates to recyclable materials collected from residential sources.
Creating a business and occupation tax credit for capital costs associated with providing retail broadband service using qualified broadband equipment.
Concerning oil transportation safety.
Concerning dredged materials.
Concerning air pollution emission control devices.
Concerning electronic product recycling.
Providing an alternative to Initiative Measure No. 732.
Creating a fossil fuel carbon pollution tax.
Ensuring economic development by authorizing public utility districts to provide retail telecommunications services.
Regarding nuclear power generation in the state plan submitted to the United States environmental protection agency under the clean power plan.
Allowing public utility districts to own community solar projects within or without district boundaries.
Updating specified environmental statutes of the department of ecology to improve efficiency and provide for increased flexibility for local governments.
Concerning energy facility site evaluation council procedure.
Including carbon sequestration among the principles guiding development and implementation of the state energy strategy.
Concerning the Washington state energy financing voter approval act.
Concerning watershed management actions by watershed improvement districts.
Prohibiting rules and policies that limit greenhouse gas emissions.
Requiring the utilities and transportation commission to consider policies that allow electrical companies to establish a user fee or other similar charge for electric vehicle supply equipment that is deployed for the benefit of ratepayers.
Concerning distributed generation.
Concerning the treatment of wastewater.
Increasing the available term of water pollution control revolving fund program loans to reflect the 2014 amendments to the federal clean water act allowing such an increase.
Concerning the authority of the pollution liability insurance agency.
Regarding preliminary certifications under section 401 of the federal clean water act.
Concerning paint stewardship.
Requiring safer chemicals in Washington.
Relating to the retirement of electric generation facilities.
Concerning electronic product recycling.
Implementing a carbon pollution market program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Concerning private railroad crossings.
Concerning flame retardants.
Concerning use of chemical action plans to require safer chemicals in Washington.
Allowing public utility districts to produce and sell renewable natural gas.
Concerning paint stewardship.
Concerning flame retardants.
Concerning pharmaceutical waste.
Studying the siting and construction of pipelines for the transport of crude oil and related products in Washington.
Providing for a vote of the public to authorize public utility districts to provide telecommunications services.
Concerning cadmium in children's jewelry.
Providing for the acquisition of coal displacement power.
Creating new appliance efficiency standards.
Concerning paint stewardship.
Encouraging reliable distributed solar energy.
Concerning regulatory and financial mechanisms and means to promote the retirement of coal-fired electric generation facilities. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Requiring the department of commerce, in consultation with the appropriate committees of the legislature, to study the costs and benefits of retiring an eligible coal plant. )
Providing a compliance path based on sound utility planning under the energy independence act.
Concerning oil transportation safety.
Conducting remedial actions under the model toxics control act.
Requesting the President and United States Congress to take action to approve the Keystone XL pipeline.
Providing incentives for carbon reduction investments.
Concerning flame retardants.
Directing state investments of existing litter tax revenues under chapter 82.19 RCW in material waste management efforts without increasing the tax rate.
Concerning taxation of businesses engaged in radio and television broadcasting.
Requiring the department of ecology to notify residents of a highly impacted community when initiating review of certain environmental permit applications.
Protecting waterways from pollution from synthetic plastic microbeads.
Requiring that the departments of fish and wildlife and ecology use empirical science to support agency actions affecting land use.
Providing a business and occupation tax exemption for environmental handling charges.
Revising the responsibilities of the joint administrative rules review committee.
Providing a sales and use tax exemption for qualified broadband equipment.
Concerning use of chemical action plans to require safer chemicals in Washington.
Amending the energy independence act.
Regulating trees and shrubs located near solar energy systems.
Reducing emissions by making changes to the clean car standards and clean car program.
Extending the alternative fuel vehicle retail sales and use tax exemption.
Concerning retail store carryout bags.
Requiring incentives for electric vehicle readiness in buildings.
Concerning synthetic plastic microbeads.
Providing that an administrative rule or policy of the department of ecology may be abrogated by act of the governor or either house of the legislature.
Limiting the enforcement of policies of the department of ecology.
Requesting Congress to protect and promote Internet openness.
Concerning stage II gasoline vapor control programs.
Implementing a carbon pollution market program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Concerning the state universal communications services program.
Requiring the department of commerce to coordinate and advance the siting and manufacturing of small modular reactors in the state to meet future energy supply, environmental, and energy security needs.
Providing an additional alternative compliance option in the energy independence act to promote the use of clean energy in the future.
Studying the siting of small modular reactors in Washington.
Including nuclear energy in the principles that guide development and implementation of the state's energy strategy.
Concerning oil transportation safety.
Providing incentives for production of modular reactors.
Requesting the permanent siting and development of a federal nuclear waste repository.
Allowing incremental electricity produced as a result of efficiency improvements to hydroelectric generation projects whose energy output is marketed by the Bonneville power administration to qualify as an eligible renewable resource under the energy independence act.
Including nuclear energy in the definition of a "qualified alternative energy resource" for the purposes of RCW 19.29A.090.
Creating the nuclear energy education program.
Revising definitions in the energy independence act to promote the use of clean energy in the future.
Concerning mitigation measures for shoreline development.
Concerning cadmium in children's jewelry.
Concerning the use of chemical action plans for recommendations of safer chemicals.
Concerning beverage containers.
Concerning the safe transport of hazardous materials.
Exempting certain department of transportation actions from local review or permit processes under the shoreline management act.
Addressing enforcement actions at facilities sited by the energy facility site evaluation council.
Promoting thermal energy efficiency.
Providing a statewide minimum privacy policy for disclosure of customer energy use information.
Concerning oil transportation safety.
Encouraging utility leadership in electric vehicle charging infrastructure build-out.
Providing a business and occupation tax exemption for environmental handling charges.
Concerning pharmaceutical waste.
Concerning contracts for materials or work required by joint operating agencies.
Directing state investments of existing litter tax revenues under chapter 82.19 RCW in material waste management efforts without increasing the tax rate.
Allowing public utility districts to produce and distribute renewable natural gas.
Concerning the safety of the transport of liquid bulk crude oil.
Concerning used oil recycling.
Removing barriers to economic development in the telecommunications industry.
Regarding financing for stewardship of mercury-containing lights.
Concerning a qualified alternative energy resource.
Reducing polychlorinated biphenyls in Washington state.
Streamlining statutorily required environmental reports by government entities.
Reducing air pollution associated with diesel emissions.
Designating certain hydroelectric generation from a generation facility located in irrigation canals and certain pipes as an eligible renewable resource under chapter 19.285 RCW.
Regarding energy conservation under the energy independence act.
Increasing penalties for littering.
Enhancing the safety of the transportation of oil.
Modifying the definition of "oil" or "oils."
Updating specified environmental statutes of the department of ecology to improve efficiency and provide for increased flexibility for local governments.
Making technical corrections to various environmental statutes of the department of ecology and the pollution control hearings board.
Concerning water conservation appliances.
Concerning the expansion of natural gas infrastructure in rural or underserved areas.
Modifying administrative processes for managing deposits and cost reimbursements of the energy facility site evaluation council.
Concerning the use of science to support significant agency actions.
Maintaining a robust, clean, and job rich energy policy in the state of Washington that builds upon the goals created by the energy independence act.
Creating new efficiency standards.
Requesting Congress implement certain increased safety measures for tank rail cars.
Designating certain hydroelectric generation from a generation facility located in irrigation pipes, irrigation canals, and wastewater pipes as an eligible renewable resource under chapter 19.285 RCW.
Concerning flame retardants.
Clarifying and correcting RCW 82.08.962 and 82.12.962 regarding the sales and use tax treatment of machinery and equipment purchases by companies producing pipeline-quality natural gas using landfill gas.
Allowing incremental electricity produced as a result of efficiency improvements to hydroelectric generation projects whose energy output is marketed by the Bonneville power administration to qualify as an eligible renewable resource under the energy independence act.
Modifying the use of storm water control facility rate charges.
Declaring electricity from a generation facility powered by the combustion of solid waste in a municipally owned energy recovery facility to be an eligible renewable resource for the purposes of chapter 19.285 RCW, the energy independence act.
Studying nuclear power as a replacement for electricity generated from the combustion of fossil fuels.
Creating clean energy jobs in Washington state through renewable energy incentives.
Designating certain hydroelectric generation from a generation facility located in irrigation pipes, irrigation canals, and wastewater pipes as an eligible renewable resource under chapter 19.285 RCW.
Concerning flame retardants.
Creating new efficiency standards.
Providing life alert services.
Banning tris(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl)phosphate and tris(2-chloroethyl)phosphate flame retardants in children's products and residential upholstered furniture.
Adjusting the dollar threshold for substantial development under the shoreline management act for certain pleasure craft-related construction.
Using conservation achieved by a qualifying utility in excess of its biennial acquisition target under the energy independence act.
Capping the amount of the greenhouse gas reporting fee.
Modifying the definition of "oil" or "oils."
Concerning a qualified alternative energy resource.
Concerning emissions from certain emergency power sources.
Concerning mercury-containing lights.
Making energy conservation a top priority by adding new incentives and aligning the timing of the acquisitions of eligible renewable resources, electricity, or equivalent renewable energy credits, with the need for additional electric generating resources to serve consumers' loads, without changing the eligible renewable targets.
Using conservation achieved by a qualifying utility in excess of its biennial acquisition target under the energy independence act.
Concerning electronic filing of pollutant discharge elimination permit system applications.
Regarding coal transition power.
Allowing hydroelectric energy generation on irrigation district facilities to qualify for renewable energy credit.
Concerning oil spill prevention and response.
Concerning the safety of the transport of hazardous materials.
Concerning water quality determinations made by the department of ecology.
Regarding financing for stewardship of mercury-containing lights.
Allowing certain incremental electricity produced as a result of efficiency improvements and hydroelectric generation from certain irrigation facilities to qualify as an eligible renewable resource under chapter 19.285 RCW, the energy independence act.
Concerning watershed councils in the Puget Sound basin.
Requesting the permanent siting and development of a federal nuclear waste repository.
Encouraging reliable distributed renewable energy.
Concerning storm water control facility rates.
Modifying the definition of nonpower attributes in the energy independence act.
Regarding wireless communications structures.
Concerning permits for variances and conditional uses under the shoreline management act of 1971.
Allowing coal transition power to qualify as an eligible renewable resource under chapter 19.285 RCW, the energy independence act.
Providing incentives for recycling beverage containers.
Clarifying the application of tax exemptions for vehicles powered by clean alternative fuels.
Providing telecommunications investment incentives.
Involving communities in environmental decision making.
Concerning retailer labeling requirements for asbestos-containing building materials.
Concerning a fishing line or monofilament recycling pilot program.
Concerning funding for programs under the environmental legacy stewardship program.
Enhancing the safety of the transportation of oil.
Concerning mitigation fees for traffic impacts imposed under the state environmental policy act.
Concerning water conservation appliances.
Concerning the energy facility site evaluation council.
Exempting from business and occupation tax certain amounts received by cooperative finance organizations.
Regarding local integrating organizations.
Concerning pro rata credits for service outages to telecommunications consumers.
Concerning measures that will provide energy assistance for low-income families within the framework of the energy independence act.
Regarding storm water rates charged by a local government utility.
Concerning flame retardants.
Banning certain flame retardants in children's products and residential upholstered furniture.
Concerning flame retardants.
Concerning municipally produced class A biosolids.
Directing state investments of existing litter tax revenues under chapter 82.19 RCW in material waste management efforts without increasing the tax rate.
Adopting the Washington small rechargeable battery stewardship act.
Encouraging qualifying utilities to invest in and own distributed solar energy systems by reducing the cost of such systems by allowing qualifying utilities to use the investment cost recovery incentive program, by improving the economic value of solar energy systems relative to utility scale wind generation under the energy independence act, and by giving electrical companies regulatory certainty with respect to their investment in cost-effective distributed solar energy systems.
Regarding water discharge fees.
Adding electricity from hydroelectric generation projects with a generating capacity of thirty megawatts or less that do not impede migrating fish to the definition of an eligible renewable resource for the purposes of chapter 19.285 RCW.
Regarding net metering of electricity.
Concerning shoreline master program provisions for marine aquaculture net pen facilities.
Addressing ocean acidification by taking action on the recommendations of the governor's blue ribbon panel on ocean acidification.
Concerning floatation devices on state-owned aquatic lands and in state waters.
Enacting the Washington state renewable energy space heating act.
Establishing the working waterfront redevelopment jobs act.
Adopting the Washington small rechargeable battery stewardship act.
Concerning telecommunications tax parity.
Concerning paint stewardship.
Regarding the creation of a storm water compliance project.
Concerning hydroelectric power.
Narrowing the requirement that utilities purchase electricity, renewable energy credits, or electric generating facilities that are not needed to serve their customers' loads.
Recognizing hydroelectricity as an eligible renewable resource in the energy independence act.
Prioritizing state investments in storm water control.
Adding incremental hydroelectricity that is marketed by the Bonneville power administration to the definition of an eligible renewable resource for the purposes of chapter 19.285 RCW.
Reducing the littering of retail carryout bags.
Directing state investments of existing litter tax revenues under chapter 82.19 RCW in material waste management efforts without increasing the tax rate.
Determining the proportion of supplemental income to be paid by component cities, towns, and counties.
Creating a state universal communications service program.
Delaying new storm water requirements.
Directing the department of health to review the impact of chemicals on public health.
Recognizing hydroelectricity as an eligible renewable resource in the energy independence act.
Addressing appeal and permit procedures under the shoreline management act.
Concerning municipally produced class A biosolids.
Harmonizing state greenhouse gas reporting requirements with federal requirements.
Regarding the use of certain food service products.
Protecting environmental quality and human health.
Regarding retail store carryout bags.
Concerning petroleum-based beverage bottles.
Accelerating cleanup of hazardous waste sites.
Concerning flame retardants.
Requiring information on home energy efficiency to be included in residential home inspection reports.
Concerning uncontested rate modifications for utilities and transportation commission regulated water companies.
Concerning the model toxics control act.
Regarding wireless communications structures.
Establishing the Washington coastal marine advisory council. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Establishing the Washington coastal marine advisory council and the Washington marine resources advisory council. )
Improving reports on electronic waste collection.
Concerning electronic product recycling.
Concerning a pilot program to demonstrate the feasibility of using densified biomass to heat public schools.
Concerning the use of geothermal resources.
Concerning mosquito abatement in storm water control retention ponds.
Updating integrated resource plan requirements to address changing energy markets.
Concerning coal transition power.
Modifying the definition of nonpower attributes in the energy independence act.
Concerning standards for the use of science to support public policy.
Concerning the labeling of certain asbestos-containing building materials.
Allowing utilities serving customers in Washington and in other states to use eligible renewable resources located within the western electricity coordinating council area to comply with chapter 19.285 RCW, the energy independence act.
Developing recommendations to achieve the state's greenhouse gas emissions limits.