ESHB 2207: Providing tools designed to reduce the impacts of unlawful solid waste dumping.

What this bill does

Reclassifies certain unlawful waste dumping violations as natural resource infractions rather than misdemeanor offenses and moves from volume-based litter penalties to weight-based litter penalties. Reallocates half of the revenues from litter cleanup restitution payments to be used for waste disposal campaigns, especially those designed to reduce illegal dumping. Creates a pilot project at the Department of Natural Resources to remove abandoned vessels in areas other than those above aquatic lands. Provides for the use of model toxics control operating accounts funds on public participation grants that focus on reducing dumping in rural, forested communities for the 2025 to 2027 and 2027 to 2029 fiscal biennia.

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Floor votes

• House: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · February 12, 2024
  97 yea · 0 nay · 1 not voting
• House: Final Passage as Amended by the Senate · March 5, 2024
  93 yea · 0 nay · 4 not voting
• Senate: 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate · March 1, 2024
  49 yea · 0 nay

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