Providing funding for enhanced wastewater treatment infrastructure for salmon recovery.

 H-0775.1

HOUSE BILL 1678

State of Washington

69th Legislature

2025 Regular Session

By Representatives Dye, Klicker, Couture, Connors, Schmidt, Ley, Keaton, Barkis, Graham, and Nance

Read first time 01/28/25. Referred to Committee on Appropriations.

AN ACT Relating to providing funding for enhanced wastewater treatment infrastructure for salmon recovery through a fee assessed on municipal discharges of untreated sewage into Puget Sound; reenacting and amending RCW 43.84.092 and 43.84.092 ; adding new sections to chapter 90.48 RCW; creating a new section; prescribing penalties; providing an effective date; and providing an expiration date.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. (1) The legislature finds that:

(a) Puget Sound, and the complex ecosystem it houses, provides a unique resource of significant environmental, economic, recreational, cultural, and aesthetic value to Washington;