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BILL · 2019–20 SESSION · LATEST VERSION SHB 2550

HB 2550: Net ecological gain

Establishing net ecological gain as a policy for application across identified land use, development, and environmental laws.

Summary

  • Directs the Office of Financial Management to submit a report to the Legislature by December 1, 2020, that assesses how to incorporate a standard of net ecological gain into the Growth Management Act, Shoreline Management Act, Construction Projects in State Waters/Hydraulic Projects Approvals, and Model Toxics Control Act, or other laws and rules where the existing standard is less protective of ecological integrity than the standard of net ecological gain.

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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedJan 15, 2020
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Debra Lekanoff (D-40)
Introduced
January 15, 2020 in the House
Last action
February 7, 2020
Budget
Has a fiscal note
Versions
HB 2550, SHB 2550

AN ACT Relating to establishing net ecological gain as a policy for application across identified land use, development, and environmental laws;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Debra Lekanoff (D-40)

5 co-sponsors (5 Democrats, 0 Republicans)

Joe Fitzgibbon D-34Beth Doglio D-22Strom Peterson D-21Gerry Pollet D-46Nicole Macri D-43

Votes

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

History

  1. Referred to Appropriations. (SHB 2550)
  2. Referred to Appropriations.
  3. ENVI - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. (SHB 2550)
  4. Minority; do not pass. (SHB 2550)
  5. Minority; do not pass.
  6. ENVI - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
  7. First reading, referred to Environment & Energy.

HB 2550 in other sessions

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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