| Passed by the House March 11, 2003 Yeas 86 FRANK CHOPP ________________________________________ Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 9, 2003 Yeas 48 BRAD OWEN ________________________________________ President of the Senate | I, Cynthia Zehnder, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1242 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth. CYNTHIA ZEHNDER ________________________________________ Chief Clerk | |
| Approved April 16, 2003. GARY LOCKE ________________________________________ Governor of the State of Washington | April 16, 2003 - 4:05 p.m. Secretary of State State of Washington |
| State of Washington | 58th Legislature | 2003 Regular Session |
READ FIRST TIME 02/07/03.
AN ACT Relating to the use of biodiesel; and adding new sections to chapter 43.19 RCW.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1 A new section is added to chapter 43.19 RCW
to read as follows:
The legislature recognizes that:
(1) Biodiesel is less polluting than petroleum diesel;
(2) Using biodiesel in neat form or blended with petroleum diesel
significantly reduces air toxics and cancer-causing compounds as well
as the soot associated with petroleum diesel exhaust;
(3) Biodiesel degrades much faster than petroleum diesel;
(4) Biodiesel is less toxic than petroleum fuels;
(5) The United States environmental protection agency's new
emission standards for petroleum diesel that take effect June 1, 2006,
will require the addition of a lubricant to ultra-low sulfur diesel to
counteract premature wear of injection pumps;
(6) Biodiesel provides the needed lubricity to ultra-low sulfur
diesel;
(7) Biodiesel use in state-owned diesel-powered vehicles provides
a means for the state to comply with the alternative fuel vehicle
purchase requirements of the energy policy act of 1992, P.L. 102-486;
and
(8) The state is in a position to set an example of large scale use
of biodiesel in diesel-powered vehicles and equipment.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2 A new section is added to chapter 43.19 RCW
to read as follows:
(1) All state agencies are encouraged to use a fuel blend of twenty
percent biodiesel and eighty percent petroleum diesel for use in
diesel-powered vehicles and equipment.
(2) Effective June 1, 2006, for agencies complying with the ultra-low sulfur diesel mandate of the United States environmental protection
agency for on-highway diesel fuel, agencies shall use biodiesel as an
additive to ultra-low sulfur diesel for lubricity, provided that the
use of a lubricity additive is warranted and that the use of biodiesel
is comparable in performance and cost with other available lubricity
additives. The amount of biodiesel added to the ultra-low sulfur
diesel fuel shall be not less than two percent.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 3 A new section is added to chapter 43.19 RCW
to read as follows:
The definitions in this section apply throughout sections 1 and 2
of this act unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
(1) "Biodiesel" means a mono alkyl ester of long chain fatty acids
derived from vegetable oils or animal fats for use in compression-ignition engines and that meets the requirements of the American
society of testing and materials specification D 6751 in effect as of
January 1, 2003.
(2) "Ultra-low sulfur diesel" means petroleum diesel in which the
sulfur content is not more than thirty parts per million.