HB 2074: Limiting the application of certain civil penalties to protect landowners from incurring penalties based on the actions of the landowner's lessee.
Did not pass. The 2023-24 session has ended.
- Sponsor
- Dye
- Introduced
- January 8, 2024
- Status
- H Rules 3C
- Last action
- By resolution, returned to House Rules Committee for third reading. (March 7, 2024)
- As of
- August 18, 2026, 2:02 AM Pacific, from the Legislature’s records
What this bill does
Prohibits the Department of Ecology (Ecology) from levying a civil penalty against a landowner for a violation of the water code if the actions of the landowner's lessee are the basis for the violation. Establishes that, in such cases, Ecology may levy the civil penalty against the lessee.
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Floor votes
- House: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · February 7, 202496 yea · 0 nay · 2 not voting
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