Environmental Health and Safety: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026
Legislative staff filed 90 bills from the 2025-26 session under Environmental Health and Safety. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and bills with a page of their own are linked.
- HB 1071 · Recycling, requiring assessment of needs and methods to improve rate to 65% for covered products, new chapter
- HB 1150 · Packaging, requiring producer responsibility organizations, new chapter
- HB 1154 · Solid waste facility permits, health reviews
- HB 1236 · Littering, increasing penalties and convening littering solutions task force
- HB 1288 · Climate change adaptation, investments
- HB 1293 · Litter, convening littering solutions task force and additional penalties
- HB 1303 · Burdened communities, requiring environmental justice impact statement for policies affecting
- HB 1324 · Climate commitment act, using certain revenues for transportation purposes
- HB 1409 · Clean fuels program, modifying and specifying penalties
- HB 1420 · Apparel and textile producer organizations, requiring collection, recycling, outreach, education, etc.
- HB 1458 · Embodied carbon emissions, reducing in building projects
- HB 1462 · Hydrofluorocarbons, restricting commerce
- HB 1497 · Sustainable farm funding programs, permitting to increase carbon sequestration
- HB 1607 · Recycling refund program, establishing
- HB 1652 · Marine fuels, limiting sulphur content in regulated waters and allowing noncompliance fees
- HB 1689 · Ocean-going vessels at birth, meeting California emission standards
- HB 1749 · SEPA, modifying elements of the environment
- HB 1789 · Photovoltaic module advisory committee, creating to make recommendations concerning recycling, waste, etc.
- HB 1856 · Climate commitment act, allowing alternative emission reduction pathway for certain municipal gas utilities
- HB 1857 · Asbestos, exempting commercial aggregates and asphalt and concrete materials from certain restrictions
- HB 1861 · Burning permits, requiring public notification including silvicultural burns
- HB 1901 · Mattresses, new chapter requiring producer responsibility organizations
- HB 1912 · Farm fuel exemption, establishing remittances and clarifying fuel types
- HB 1975 · Climate commitment act, compliance instrument markets analysis and modifications
- HB 2010 · Safe drinking water grant program, establishing for economically distressed communities
- HB 2149 · Fairfax bridge infrastructure emergency replacement on state route number 165
- HB 2150 · Various programs made contingent on quarterly greenhouse gas reporting
- HB 2212 · Microfiber filtration systems required in washing machines
- HB 2215 · Climate commitment act compliance obligations and thresholds
- HB 2222 · Certain weather modification programs and atmospheric manipulation prohibited
- HB 2233 · Retail carryout bag charges, third party platforms, and benefits exemption
- HB 2234 · School allocations increased due to climate commitment act utility costs
- HB 2251 · Climate commitment act funds created, repealed, and transfers
- HB 2271 · Postconsumer recycled content exemptions and requirements for plastic products
- HB 2273 · Embodied carbon emissions, reducing in building projects
- HB 2284 · Littering solutions task force and permanent bag charges
- HB 2301 · Paint stewardship organizations to implement updated paint product stewardship program plans
- HB 2307 · Commute trip reduction times changed
- HB 2322 · Carbon intensity for electricity supplied to alternative jet fuel manufacturing
- HB 2338 · Community scaled weatherization projects may be proposed by sponsors
- HB 2344 · Lead restrictions in cookware and utensils
- HB 2367 · Electric generation facility exemption repealed
- HB 2402 · Intravenous solution containers made with intentionally added DEHP prohibited
- HB 2416 · Waste to energy facilities and allocation of cost allowances
- HB 2421 · 6PPD tires and regrettable 6PPD substitutes phased out
- HB 2537 · Emissions-intensive, trade-exposed facility allowance allocations and requirements
- HB 2605 · Exemptions to asbestos manufacture and sale prohibitions
- HB 2633 · Mattress producer responsibility organizations and required plans
- HB 2642 · Exempt emissions to include lubricants
- HB 2682 · Covered agencies expanded and required to comply with environmental justice requirements
- HB 2741 · Electric transmission authority established in new chapter
- SB 5033 · PFAS chemicals, requiring testing standards for biosolids and creating advisory committee
- SB 5045 · Batteries, electric vehicles, expanding battery stewardship program to include
- SB 5058 · Recycling, requiring assessment of needs and methods to improve rate to 65% for covered products, new chapter
- SB 5174 · Emissions, requiring compliance of wood burning stoves with emission standards
- SB 5175 · Photovoltaic module advisory committee, creating to make recommendations concerning recycling, waste, etc.
- SB 5284 · Packaging, requiring producer responsibility organizations, new chapter
- SB 5360 · Environmental crimes, specifying various violations
- SB 5380 · Burdened communities, requiring environmental justice impact statement for policies affecting
- SB 5438 · Hydrofluorocarbons, restricting commerce
- SB 5494 · State renovation, repair, and painting program, establishing with firm certification
- SB 5502 · Recycling refund program, establishing
- SB 5519 · Marine fuels, limiting sulphur content in regulated waters and allowing noncompliance fees
- SB 5550 · Climate commitment act, using certain revenues for transportation purposes
- SB 5609 · SEPA, exemptions and cultural resources
- SB 5612 · SEPA, exemption for multiunit housing
- SB 5630 · Climate commitment act, payments to support farm fuel users and transporters
- SB 5698 · Climate commitment act, allowing alternative emission reduction pathway for certain municipal gas utilities
- SB 5703 · Emissions, exemption for certain municipal solid waste system
- SB 5856 · Exempt emissions to include lubricants
- SB 5932 · Carbon intensity for electricity supplied to alternative jet fuel manufacturing
- SB 5965 · Retail carryout bag charges, third party platforms, and benefits exemption
- SB 5975 · Lead restrictions in cookware and utensils
- SB 5987 · Fairfax bridge infrastructure emergency replacement on state route number 165
- SB 6030 · Certain carryout bag restrictions removed
- SB 6056 · Utility service vehicles exempted from certain motor vehicle emission standards
- SB 6092 · Waste to energy facilities and allocation of cost allowances
- SB 6119 · 6PPD tires and regrettable 6PPD substitutes phased out including fees
- SB 6156 · Postconsumer recycled content exemptions and requirements for plastic products
- SB 6168 · Emissions, suspending certain statutes and rules
- SB 6172 · Electric generation facility exemption repealed
- SB 6174 · Textile producer responsibility organizations required with plans for covered products
- SB 6213 · Exemptions to asbestos manufacture and sale prohibitions
- SB 6219 · Waste reduction chapter repealed
- SB 6223 · Community scaled weatherization projects may be proposed by sponsors
- SB 6246 · Emissions-intensive, trade-exposed facility allowance allocations and requirements
- SB 6271 · Mattress producer responsibility organizations and required plans
- SB 6273 · Waste tire pile inventory required
- SB 6291 · Wastewater treatment system inspections by supervised noncertified individuals
- SB 6355 · Electric transmission authority established in new chapter
All topics · All 2025-26 Washington State bills
Source: the Washington State Legislature’s Topical Index. OlympiaTrack is an independent bill-tracking service and is not affiliated with the Legislature.