BILL · 2019–20 SESSION · LATEST VERSION SSB 6628
SB 6628: Greenhouse gas/fossil fuels
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels.
Summary
- Authorizes the Department of Ecology to require persons who produce or distribute fossil fuels that emit greenhouse gases to comply with air quality and emission standards or emission limits on greenhouse gases.
- Provides a definition of emission, emission standard, and emission limitation as applied to greenhouse gas emissions that includes indirect emissions from the production or distribution of petroleum products or natural gas.
- Establishes that a renewable fuels production facility producing more than 100 million gallons of renewable energy products per year is a project of state-wide significance.
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Did not pass Did not pass · stalled on the Senate floor
- IntroducedJan 28, 2020
- Out of committeeFeb 7, 2020
- Passed Senatestopped here
- Passed House
- Governor
- Law
- Prime sponsor
- Senator (D-36)
- Introduced
- January 28, 2020 in the Senate
- Last action
- February 26, 2020
- Requested by
- Governor
- Budget
- Has a fiscal note
- Versions
- SB 6628, SSB 6628
AN ACT Relating to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels;
Sponsors
Prime sponsor: Senator (D-36)
6 co-sponsors (6 Democrats, 0 Republicans)
Votes
No recorded floor votes.
History
- On motion, referred to Rules. (SSB 6628)
- On motion, referred to Rules.
- Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. (SSB 6628)
- Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. (SSB 6628)
- Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- ENET - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. (SSB 6628)
- Minority; do not pass. (SSB 6628)
- Minority; do not pass.
- ENET - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
- First reading, referred to Environment, Energy & Technology.
SB 6628 in other sessions
Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.
- SB 6628 (2017–18) Resident medical education
- SB 6628 (2015–16) Collect. agency legal action
- SB 6628 (2011–12) Unsafe storage of firearms
- SB 6628 (2009–10) Expenditures for art works
- SB 6628 (2007–08) Mental health treatment
- SB 6628 (2005–06) WorkFirst safety net program
- SB 6628 (2003–04) Nonprofit orgs property tax
- SB 6628 (2001–02) Campus police officers