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Committee advances producer-responsibility packaging bill with clarifying amendments
Summary
The committee voted 11-10 to report out substitute Senate Bill 5,284 after adopting a striking amendment that clarifies metrics, auditing standards and program responsibilities for producer responsibility organizations (PROs). Members debated costs, needs assessments and equity concerns.
On March 20, 2025 the House Environment & Energy Committee voted to report out substitute Senate Bill 5,284, 11-10, after adopting striking amendment H2026.2 and debating program scope, costs and data requirements.
The striker H2026.2 made logistical and definitional changes to the underlying producer-responsibility framework. Key changes include: if the federal metric used to identify socially vulnerable populations becomes unavailable, the Department of Health environmental health disparities map will serve as the fallback until Ecology adopts a rule specifying an alternative; Ecology may, by rule, update the auditing standard referenced in the statute (the striker…
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