Establishing an embodied carbon tax on cigarettes.

 H-0610.1

HOUSE BILL 1417

State of Washington

69th Legislature

2025 Regular Session

By Representatives Reeves, Davis, Duerr, Pollet, Ormsby, Street, Hill, and Macri

Read first time 01/20/25. Referred to Committee on Finance.

AN ACT Relating to establishing an embodied carbon tax on cigarettes; adding a new section to chapter 82.24 RCW; and providing an effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 82.24 RCW to read as follows:

(1) In addition to the tax imposed upon the sale, use, consumption, handling, possession, or distribution of cigarettes set forth in RCW 82.24.020 and 82.24.026 , there is imposed an embodied carbon tax in an amount equal to $0.0015 per cigarette, adjusted as provided in subsection (2) of this section.