S-0197.1
SENATE BILL 5026
State of Washington | 67th Legislature | 2021 Regular Session |
BySenators Salomon, Cleveland, Conway, Das, Hasegawa, Hunt, Keiser, Lovelett, Nguyen, Nobles, and Randall
Prefiled 12/18/20.Read first time 01/11/21.Referred to Committee on Transportation.
AN ACT Relating to moneys available to a port district allocated for the purchase of zero and near zero emissions cargo handling equipment; and adding a new chapter to Title
53 RCW.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. (1) Moneys available to a port district or a port development authority may be used to purchase zero and near zero emissions cargo handling equipment and infrastructure supporting that equipment for the use of the port district, port development authority, or tenants or lessees thereof.
(2) Moneys available to a port district or a port development authority shall not be used to purchase fully automated marine container cargo handling equipment.
(3) For the purposes of this section:
(a) "Fully automated marine container cargo handling equipment" means equipment that is remotely operated or remotely monitored, with or without the exercise of human intervention or control.
(b) "Port development authority" means a port public development authority created by a single port district or jointly created by two port districts in accordance with RCW
53.57.020.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. Section 1 of this act constitutes a new chapter in Title 53 RCW. --- END ---