House2025-26 sessionFiscal note
HB 2426: Improving efficiency in appeals to the pollution control hearings board.
Signed into law: Chapter 98, Laws of 2026
- Sponsor
- Bernbaum
- Introduced
- January 13, 2026
- Status
- C 98 L 26
- Last action
- Effective date 6/11/2026. (March 18, 2026)
- As of
- October 16, 2026, 5:15 AM Pacific, from the Legislature’s records
What this bill does
Authorizes permit appeals to the Pollution Control Hearings Board to be heard by one member of the board or alternative compositions of the board in certain circumstances.
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Floor votes
- House: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · February 11, 202696 yea · 0 nay · 2 not voting
- Senate: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · March 6, 202648 yea · 0 nay · 1 not voting
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