📣 1/23 Bills: Ecology wants your wood burning stove 🔥😠🔥
Time to testify!
Friday is a short day, so we don’t have as many bills to focus on as usual. But, wow, the ones we do have are mind-bending. Grab a cup of coffee, kick your feet up and testify ON ALL OF THEM! But first, the worst bill by far…
Bad bill of the day: 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
SB 5174 - Concerning wood burning devices. - Testify CON
There really is nothing like a wood burning stove. It’s far better than any other type of heating, much warmer, much more penetrating, and of course, it’s visually pleasing. Modern wood burning stoves are amazing machines that put out an enormous amount of heat.
Now the Department of Ecology wants to take control of this heat source. Our friends from the Skagit team give us this description:
“SB 5174: This bill states No “wood burning device” shall be offered for sale in this state that does not meet the statewide emission performance standards adopted by the Department of Ecology, using an applicable test methodology adopted by the United States environmental protection agency. “Wood burning device" means a woodstove, fireplace, masonry heater, residential forced-air furnace, and/or residential hydronic heater.
The bill also gives Dept. of Ecology the choice to adopt emission standards for stoves that burn coal or other solid fuels. Stoves that meet new emission standards are likely to be inefficient at heating homes [personal experience].
It will be illegal for a homeowner to sell a house with a “wood burning device” that does not meet the emission performance standards… The fiscal note shows the operating expenditures for this bill through 2029-2031 will be $1.37 million.”
Just when you thought Olympia couldn’t get any worse, they say “hold my beer.”
Time to testify CON on this one, and pass the word to all your wood burning friends!
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Here’s the rest of the Friday bills…
Morning Bills
SB 5228 - Updating the governor's interagency coordinating council on health disparities*** - Testify CON
*** Sound familiar? This is the Senate version of HB 1262, which had it’s hearing 1/22. Same bad idea.
SB 5121 - Concerning health plan coverage of fertility-related services. - Testify CON
HB 1077 - Raising awareness of pain control options for intrauterine device placement and removal. - Testify CON
SB 5036 - Strengthening Washington's leadership and accountability on climate policy by transitioning to annual reporting of statewide emissions data. - Testify PRO
SB 5236 - Concerning emissions of greenhouse gases used for anesthetic purposes. - Testify CON
SB 5360 - Concerning environmental crimes. - Testify CON
SB 5148 - Ensuring compliance with the housing element requirements of the growth management act. - Testify PRO
SB 5184 - Concerning minimum parking requirements. (Hearing is on the Proposed Substitute.) - Testify PRO
SB 5249 - Concerning siting kit homes. - Testify PRO
SB 5152 - Concerning state employee access to peer-reviewed journals. - Testify CON
Afternoon Bills
There is no session on Friday afternoon, thank goodness!
📣 Call to Action! GO Hit the “testify” links above, then choose the third option on the committee sign up page and “note my position.” TESTIFY! 🏃🏻🏃♀️🏃♂️
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The State (Ecology) actually has annual wood stove buy back events, paying folks $300 for any operative wood burning stove; limit 2 per household. Paid for with our tax dollars! So this Bill should not be surprising. This lunacy needs to stop, not become law.