E2SHB 1368: Requiring and funding the purchase of zero emission school buses.
Signed into law: Chapter 345, Laws of 2024
- Sponsor
- Senn
- Introduced
- January 17, 2023
- Status
- C 345 L 24
- Last action
- Effective date 6/6/2024. (March 28, 2024)
- As of
- August 18, 2026, 2:01 AM Pacific, from the Legislature’s records
What this bill does
Requires school buses purchased by public kindergarten through twelfth grade (K-12) schools to be zero-emission school buses beginning September 1, 2035. Establishes a zero-emission school bus grant program for K-12 schools to be administered by the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI). Amends school bus purchasing protocols of the OSPI and school districts to take into account the 2035 zero-emission bus purchasing requirement.
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Floor votes
- House: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · February 9, 202458 yea · 39 nay · 1 not voting
- House: Final Passage as Amended by the Senate · March 5, 202458 yea · 38 nay · 1 not voting
- Senate: 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate · March 1, 202429 yea · 20 nay
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