Legislative Priorities

Below are 350 Spokane's priorities for the 2025 Washington Legislative Session

350 Spokane is prioritizing a variety of legislative solutions to the climate crisis.

How to support climate-related bills in the Washington Legislature

If you want to tell your legislators to support a bill:

  1. Go to “Bill Information” page: https://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/
  2. Put the bill number in the “bill number” box and click on the “Search” button.
  3. Click on “Comment on this bill”
  4. Put your address in the form and click the “Verify District” button.
  5. Select one or more of your representatives to receive your comment.
  6. Enter your contact information.
  7. Click the “support” button.
  8. Add a comment in the box provided. It may be as simple as “please support this bill.”
  9. Click “Send Comment” button.

If you want to participate in or send a comment to a committee hearing

  1. Go to “Bill Information” page: https://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/
  2. Scroll down to “Site Contents” at the bottom of the page and click “Participate in Committee Hearings”
  3. Click either “Register to Testify Remotely During a Hearing” or “Submit Written Testimony”
  4. Select “House” or “Senate”
  5. Select the name of the committee from the list provided
  6. Then select the time of the hearing from the list provided
  7. Then select the agenda item from the list provided
  8. Select “Type of testimony”
  9. Follow the instructions provided.

Bills to Support in the 2025 Washington Legislature

Transit Oriented Development

Creates a competitive grant program to assist in the financing of housing projects within rapid transit corridors. Eligible housing projects must be within one-quarter mile of a rapid transit corridor, and have a high concentration of units affordable to households with incomes at or below 50 percent area median income.

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HB 1491

Bill Status: Alive

Establishes a product stewardship program for packaging and printed paper. Sets recycling and reuse targets and plastic source reduction.

Implements a top recommendation of Ecology’s Plastics Study (October 2020) which was required by Senator Rolfes’ SB5397 in 2019 to address our recycling crisis and the increasing amount of plastic pollution.

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SB 5284

Bill Status: Alive

HB 1150

HB 1150 Bill Status: Alive

Community solar means you don’t have to own land or a big rooftop to get the benefits of solar energy. Just like a Netflix subscription, customers can sign up to use locally generated solar energy from their community.

While Washington state was home to the nation’s first community solar project, it ranks 31st in community solar power generation. Allowing community solar to serve more customers will help Washington achieve its clean energy goals more quickly, affordably, and equitably.

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SB 5515

Bill Status: Alive

SB 1598

Bill Status: Alive

Authorizes cities and counties to require an owner of a single-family residence to obtain a home energy performance report prior to publicly advertising the home for sale, with conditions, and provides the required elements of a home energy performance report.

HB 1015

Bill Status: Alive

The Cumulative Risk Burden Pollution Act, or CURB, would require permitting agencies to produce an environmental justice review for all projects. For neighborhoods already exposed to high levels of toxic pollution, it would require a review of the cumulative impacts. It would make permitting agencies require businesses that would add unacceptable levels of pollution in these communities to mitigate the impacts, or the proposed project could be denied.

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HB 1303

Bill Status: Alive

Supporting the servicing and right to repair of certain products with digital electronics in a secure and reliable manner. Requires digital electronic product manufacturers to make repair information, parts and tools available to independent repair businesses and owners. On average, Washington disposes of 8,700 phones every day. Repair over replace. Decreasing greenhouse gases and extractive processes. Increase access to items and help overcome digital inequities in Washington. 

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SB 5423

Bill Status: Alive

HB 1483

Bill Status: Alive