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Committee hears proposal to codify remittance program for agriculture fuel exemptions under Climate Commitment Act
Summary
Representatives and agency staff discussed House Bill 1912, which would require Ecology to adopt rules establishing remittances for fuels exempted under the 2021 Climate Commitment Act and make permanent the temporary highway-transport exemption for agricultural products.
House Environment & Energy Committee members heard staff and stakeholder testimony Thursday on House Bill 1912, a bill that would direct the Department of Ecology to adopt rules to establish a remittance program for fuels exempted under the 2021 Climate Commitment Act.
Sponsors and agency staff said the bill aims to address ongoing implementation difficulties that have left some agricultural fuel users paying surcharges that the law intended to exempt.
Jacob Lipson, staff to the committee, told members the Climate Commitment Act included two agricultural exemptions and that the statute originally intended one exemption—to fuels used to transport agricultural products on public highways—to sunset after five years. "House Bill 1912…
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