BILL · 2023–24 SESSION · LATEST VERSION SHB 2070

HB 2070: Env. justice/SEPA projects

Integrating environmental justice considerations into certain project decisions.

Summary

Requires lead agencies to carry out environmental justice impact statements as a supplement to review under the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) for government actions related to certain potentially impactful projects.
Specifies the contents of environmental justice impact statements, the process, including public notification and input processes, that must be followed when a SEPA lead agency is carrying out an environmental justice impact statement, and the means by which a lead agency must determine whether a project will have disproportionate impacts on pollution burdened communities.
Requires lead agencies, after the completion of an environmental justice impact statement and using substantive SEPA authority, to deny or mitigate proposed actions that would cause or contribute to adverse environmental or public health stressors in a pollution burdened community.
Authorizes SEPA lead agencies to require project proponents to reimburse the agency for demonstrated costs associated with environmental justice impact statements.

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AN ACT Relating to integrating environmental justice considerations into certain project decisions;

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

Jan 31, 2024Referred to Appropriations. (SHB 2070)
Jan 31, 2024Referred to Appropriations.
Jan 29, 2024Minority; without recommendation. (SHB 2070)
Jan 29, 2024ENVI - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. (SHB 2070)
Jan 29, 2024Minority; do not pass. (SHB 2070)
Jan 29, 2024Minority; do not pass.
Jan 29, 2024ENVI - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
Jan 29, 2024Minority; without recommendation.
Jan 29, 2024ENVI - Executive action taken by committee.
Jan 8, 2024First reading, referred to Environment & Energy.
Jan 2, 2024Prefiled for introduction.

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

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