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BILL · 2021–22 SESSION

HB 1822: Puget Sound water quality

Improving Puget Sound water quality.

Summary

  • Establishes the Office of Puget Sound Water Quality within the Department of Ecology to provide assistance and grants to municipal wastewater treatment facilities to reduce nutrient discharges into the Puget Sound.
  • Requires that $100 million of Washington's Cap and Invest Program auction proceeds must first be deposited into a new account for grants made by the Office of Puget Sound Water Quality.
  • Requires annual reporting on each discharge of untreated sewage and stormwater by operators of municipal wastewater systems and summaries of these discharges by the Department of Ecology.

From the House Bill Analysis 2022 (HB 1822), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedJan 10, 2022
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Mary Dye (R-9)
Introduced
January 10, 2022 in the House
Last action
January 10, 2022
Budget
Has a fiscal note

AN ACT Relating to improving Puget Sound water quality;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Mary Dye (R-9)

8 co-sponsors (0 Democrats, 8 Republicans)

Carolyn Eslick R-39Keith Goehner R-12Eric Robertson R-31Mark Klicker R-16Jenny Graham R-6Michelle Valdez R-26Kelly Chambers R-25Peter Abbarno R-20

Votes

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

History

  1. First reading, referred to Environment & Energy.
  2. Prefiled for introduction.

HB 1822 in other sessions

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

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