Strike everything after the enacting clause and insert the following:

"Sec. 1.  RCW 19.285.030 and 2017 c 315 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.

(1) "Attorney general" means the Washington state office of the attorney general.

(2) "Auditor" means: (a) The Washington state auditor's office or its designee for qualifying utilities under its jurisdiction that are not investor-owned utilities; or (b) an independent auditor selected by a qualifying utility that is not under the jurisdiction of the state auditor and is not an investor-owned utility.

(3)(a) "Biomass energy" includes: (i) Organic by-products of pulping and the wood manufacturing process; (ii) animal manure; (iii) solid organic fuels from wood; (iv) forest or field residues; (v) untreated wooden demolition or construction debris; (vi) food waste and food processing residuals; (vii) liquors derived from algae; (viii) dedicated energy crops; and (ix) yard waste.

(b) "Biomass energy" does not include: (i) Wood pieces that have been treated with chemical preservatives such as creosote, pentachlorophenol, or copper-chrome-arsenic; (ii) wood from old growth forests; or (iii) municipal solid waste.

(4) "Coal transition power" has the same meaning as defined in RCW 80.80.010.

(5) "Commission" means the Washington state utilities and transportation commission.

(6) "Conservation" means any reduction in electric power consumption resulting from increases in the efficiency of energy use, production, or distribution.

(7) "Cost-effective" has the same meaning as defined in RCW 80.52.030.

(8) "Council" means the Washington state apprenticeship and training council within the department of labor and industries.

(9) "Customer" means a person or entity that purchases electricity for ultimate consumption and not for resale.

(10) "Department" means the department of commerce or its successor.

(11) "Distributed generation" means an eligible renewable resource where the generation facility or any integrated cluster of such facilities has a generating capacity of not more than five megawatts.

(12) "Eligible renewable resource" means:

(a) Electricity from a generation facility powered by a renewable resource other than freshwater that commences operation after March 31, 1999, where: (i) The facility is located in the ((Pacific Northwest)) western interconnection; or (ii) the electricity from the facility is delivered into Washington state on a real-time basis without shaping, storage, or integration services;

(b) Incremental electricity produced as a result of efficiency improvements completed after March 31, 1999, to hydroelectric generation projects owned by a qualifying utility and located in the ((Pacific Northwest)) western interconnection where the additional generation does not result in new water diversions or impoundments;

(c) Hydroelectric generation from a project completed after March 31, 1999, where the generation facility is located in irrigation pipes, irrigation canals, water pipes whose primary purpose is for conveyance of water for municipal use, and wastewater pipes located in Washington where the generation does not result in new water diversions or impoundments;

(d) Qualified biomass energy;

(e) For a qualifying utility that serves customers in other states, electricity from a generation facility powered by a renewable resource other than freshwater that commences operation after March 31, 1999, where: (i) The facility is located within a state in which the qualifying utility serves retail electrical customers; and (ii) the qualifying utility owns the facility in whole or in part or has a long-term contract with the facility of at least twelve months or more; ((or))

(f)(i) Incremental electricity produced as a result of a capital investment completed after January 1, 2010, that increases, relative to a baseline level of generation prior to the capital investment, the amount of electricity generated in a facility that generates qualified biomass energy as defined under subsection (18)(c)(ii) of this section and that commenced operation before March 31, 1999.

(ii) Beginning January 1, 2007, the facility must demonstrate its baseline level of generation over a three-year period prior to the capital investment in order to calculate the amount of incremental electricity produced.

(iii) The facility must demonstrate that the incremental electricity resulted from the capital investment, which does not include expenditures on operation and maintenance in the normal course of business, through direct or calculated measurement;

(h) The environmental attributes, including renewable energy credits, from (g) of this subsection transferred to investor-owned utilities pursuant to the Bonneville power administration's residential exchange program.

(13) "Investor-owned utility" has the same meaning as defined in RCW 19.29A.010.

(14) "Load" means the amount of kilowatt-hours of electricity delivered in the most recently completed year by a qualifying utility to its Washington retail customers.

(15)(a) "Nonpower attributes" means all environmentally related characteristics, exclusive of energy, capacity reliability, and other electrical power service attributes, that are associated with the generation of electricity from a renewable resource, including but not limited to the facility's fuel type, geographic location, vintage, qualification as an eligible renewable resource, and avoided emissions of pollutants to the air, soil, or water, and avoided emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

(b) "Nonpower attributes" does not include any aspects, claims, characteristics, and benefits associated with the on-site capture and destruction of methane or other greenhouse gases at a facility through a digester system, landfill gas collection system, or other mechanism, which may be separately marketable as greenhouse gas emission reduction credits, offsets, or similar tradable commodities. However, these separate avoided emissions may not result in or otherwise have the effect of attributing greenhouse gas emissions to the electricity.

(16) "Pacific Northwest" has the same meaning as defined for the Bonneville power administration in section 3 of the Pacific Northwest electric power planning and conservation act (94 Stat. 2698; 16 U.S.C. Sec. 839a).

(17) "Public facility" has the same meaning as defined in RCW 39.35C.010.

(18) "Qualified biomass energy" means electricity produced from a biomass energy facility that: (a) Commenced operation before March 31, 1999; (b) contributes to the qualifying utility's load; and (c) is owned either by: (i) A qualifying utility; or (ii) an industrial facility that is directly interconnected with electricity facilities that are owned by a qualifying utility and capable of carrying electricity at transmission voltage.

(19) "Qualifying utility" means an electric utility, as the term "electric utility" is defined in RCW 19.29A.010, that serves more than twenty-five thousand customers in the state of Washington. The number of customers served may be based on data reported by a utility in form 861, "annual electric utility report," filed with the energy information administration, United States department of energy.

(20) "Renewable energy credit" means a tradable certificate of proof of at least one megawatt-hour of an eligible renewable resource where, except as provided in subsection (12)(h) of this section, the generation facility is not powered by freshwater. The certificate includes all of the nonpower attributes associated with that one megawatt-hour of electricity, and the certificate is verified by a renewable energy credit tracking system selected by the department.

(21) "Renewable resource" means: (a) Water; (b) wind; (c) solar energy; (d) geothermal energy; (e) landfill gas; (f) wave, ocean, or tidal power; (g) gas from sewage treatment facilities; (h) biodiesel fuel as defined in RCW 82.29A.135 that is not derived from crops raised on land cleared from old growth or first-growth forests where the clearing occurred after December 7, 2006; or (i) biomass energy.

(22) "Rule" means rules adopted by an agency or other entity of Washington state government to carry out the intent and purposes of this chapter.

(23) "Year" means the twelve-month period commencing January 1st and ending December 31st.

Sec. 2.  RCW 19.285.040 and 2017 c 315 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) Each qualifying utility ((shall)) must pursue all available conservation that is cost-effective, reliable, and feasible.

(a) By January 1, 2010, using methodologies consistent with those used by the Pacific Northwest electric power and conservation planning council in the most recently published regional power plan as it existed on June 12, 2014, or a subsequent date as may be provided by the department or the commission by rule, each qualifying utility ((shall)) must identify its achievable cost-effective conservation potential through 2019. Nothing in the rule adopted under this subsection precludes a qualifying utility from using its utility specific conservation measures, values, and assumptions in identifying its achievable cost-effective conservation potential. At least every two years thereafter, the qualifying utility ((shall)) must review and update this assessment for the subsequent ten-year period.

(b) Beginning January 2010, each qualifying utility ((shall)) must establish and make publicly available a biennial acquisition target for cost-effective conservation consistent with its identification of achievable opportunities in (a) of this subsection, and meet that target during the subsequent two-year period. At a minimum, each biennial target must be no lower than the qualifying utility's pro rata share for that two-year period of its cost-effective conservation potential for the subsequent ten-year period.

(c)(i) Except as provided in (c)(ii) and (iii) of this subsection, beginning on January 1, 2014, cost-effective conservation achieved by a qualifying utility in excess of its biennial acquisition target may be used to help meet the immediately subsequent two biennial acquisition targets, such that no more than twenty percent of any biennial target may be met with excess conservation savings.

(ii) Beginning January 1, 2014, a qualifying utility may use single large facility conservation savings in excess of its biennial target to meet up to an additional five percent of the immediately subsequent two biennial acquisition targets, such that no more than twenty-five percent of any biennial target may be met with excess conservation savings allowed under all of the provisions of this section combined. For the purposes of this subsection (1)(c)(ii), "single large facility conservation savings" means cost-effective conservation savings achieved in a single biennial period at the premises of a single customer of a qualifying utility whose annual electricity consumption prior to the conservation savings exceeded five average megawatts.

(iii) Beginning January 1, 2012, and until December 31, 2017, a qualifying utility with an industrial facility located in a county with a population between ninety-five thousand and one hundred fifteen thousand that is directly interconnected with electricity facilities that are capable of carrying electricity at transmission voltage may use cost-effective conservation from that industrial facility in excess of its biennial acquisition target to help meet the immediately subsequent two biennial acquisition targets, such that no more than twenty-five percent of any biennial target may be met with excess conservation savings allowed under all of the provisions of this section combined.

(d) In meeting its conservation targets, a qualifying utility may count high-efficiency cogeneration owned and used by a retail electric customer to meet its own needs. High-efficiency cogeneration is the sequential production of electricity and useful thermal energy from a common fuel source, where, under normal operating conditions, the facility has a useful thermal energy output of no less than thirty-three percent of the total energy output. The reduction in load due to high-efficiency cogeneration ((shall)) must be: (i) Calculated as the ratio of the fuel chargeable to power heat rate of the cogeneration facility compared to the heat rate on a new and clean basis of a best-commercially available technology combined-cycle natural gas-fired combustion turbine; and (ii) counted towards meeting the biennial conservation target in the same manner as other conservation savings.

(e) The commission may determine if a conservation program implemented by an investor-owned utility is cost-effective based on the commission's policies and practice.

(f) The commission may rely on its standard practice for review and approval of investor-owned utility conservation targets.

(2)(a) Except as provided in (j) of this subsection, each qualifying utility ((shall)) must use eligible renewable resources or acquire equivalent renewable energy credits, or any combination of them, to meet the following annual targets:

(i) At least three percent of its load by January 1, 2012, and each year thereafter through December 31, 2015;

(ii) At least nine percent of its load by January 1, 2016, and each year thereafter through December 31, 2019; and

(iii) At least fifteen percent of its load by January 1, 2020, and each year thereafter until January 1, 2028.

(b) A qualifying utility may count distributed generation at double the facility's electrical output if the utility: (i) Owns or has contracted for the distributed generation and the associated renewable energy credits; or (ii) has contracted to purchase the associated renewable energy credits.

(c) In meeting the annual targets in (a) of this subsection, a qualifying utility ((shall)) must calculate its annual load based on the average of the utility's load for the previous two years.

(d) A qualifying utility ((shall be)) is considered in compliance with an annual target in (a) of this subsection if: (i) The utility's weather-adjusted load for the previous three years on average did not increase over that time period; (ii) after December 7, 2006, the utility did not commence or renew ownership or incremental purchases of electricity from resources other than coal transition power or renewable resources other than on a daily spot price basis and the electricity is not offset by equivalent renewable energy credits; and (iii) the utility invested at least one percent of its total annual retail revenue requirement that year on eligible renewable resources, renewable energy credits, or a combination of both.

(e) The requirements of this section may be met for any given year with renewable energy credits produced during that year, the preceding year, or the subsequent year. Each renewable energy credit may be used only once to meet the requirements of this section.

(f) In complying with the targets established in (a) of this subsection, a qualifying utility may not count:

(i) Eligible renewable resources or distributed generation where the associated renewable energy credits are owned by a separate entity; or

(ii) Eligible renewable resources or renewable energy credits obtained for and used in an optional pricing program such as the program established in RCW 19.29A.090.

(g) Where fossil and combustible renewable resources are cofired in one generating unit located in the ((Pacific Northwest)) western interconnection where the cofiring commenced after March 31, 1999, the unit ((shall be)) is considered to produce eligible renewable resources in direct proportion to the percentage of the total heat value represented by the heat value of the renewable resources.

(h)(i) A qualifying utility that acquires an eligible renewable resource or renewable energy credit may count that acquisition at one and two-tenths times its base value:

(A) Where the eligible renewable resource comes from a facility that commenced operation after December 31, 2005; and

(B) Where the developer of the facility used apprenticeship programs approved by the council during facility construction.

(ii) The council ((shall)) must establish minimum levels of labor hours to be met through apprenticeship programs to qualify for this extra credit.

(i) A qualifying utility ((shall be)) is considered in compliance with an annual target in (a) of this subsection if events beyond the reasonable control of the utility that could not have been reasonably anticipated or ameliorated prevented it from meeting the renewable energy target. Such events include weather-related damage, mechanical failure, strikes, lockouts, and actions of a governmental authority that adversely affect the generation, transmission, or distribution of an eligible renewable resource under contract to a qualifying utility.

(j)(i) Beginning January 1, 2016, only a qualifying utility that owns or is directly interconnected to a qualified biomass energy facility may use qualified biomass energy to meet its compliance obligation under this subsection.

(ii) A qualifying utility may no longer use electricity and associated renewable energy credits from a qualified biomass energy facility if the associated industrial pulping or wood manufacturing facility ceases operation other than for purposes of maintenance or upgrade.

(k) An industrial facility that hosts a qualified biomass energy facility may only transfer or sell renewable energy credits associated with qualified biomass energy generated at its facility to the qualifying utility with which it is directly interconnected with facilities owned by such a qualifying utility and that are capable of carrying electricity at transmission voltage. The qualifying utility may only use an amount of renewable energy credits associated with qualified biomass energy that are equivalent to the proportionate amount of its annual targets under (a)(ii) and (iii) of this subsection that was created by the load of the industrial facility. A qualifying utility that owns a qualified biomass energy facility may not transfer or sell renewable energy credits associated with qualified biomass energy to another person, entity, or qualifying utility.

(3) Utilities that become qualifying utilities after December 31, 2006, ((shall)) must meet the requirements in this section on a time frame comparable in length to that provided for qualifying utilities as of December 7, 2006.

(2) The legislature categorizes the tax preferences created under sections 4 through 6, chapter . . ., Laws of 2018 (sections 4 through 6 of this act) as intended to induce certain designated behavior by taxpayers, as indicated in RCW 82.32.808(2)(a).

(3) It is the legislature's specific public policy objective to reduce the cost of transitioning to electric generation sources that have very low or zero carbon dioxide emissions. It is the intent of the legislature to provide a suite of tax preferences in order to reduce the cost to ratepayers of constructing and operating new renewable energy generation capacity equal to or greater than necessary to serve projected Washington electricity load growth, as measured by projections in the most recently adopted Northwest power and conservation council power plan.

(4) The legislature does not intend to extend the expiration date of the tax preferences contained in this act.

(5) Because the tax preferences contained in this act are not for the primary purpose of creating or retaining jobs or attracting or attaining businesses, and because the legislature does not intend to extend the expiration of the tax preferences, the legislature does not intend for a review by the joint legislative audit and review committee.

Sec. 4.  RCW 82.16.055 and 1980 c 149 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) In computing tax under this chapter there ((shall be)) is deducted from the gross income:

(a) An amount equal to the cost of production at the plant for consumption within the state of Washington of:

(i) Electrical energy produced or generated from ((cogeneration)) combined heat and power as defined in RCW ((82.35.020)) 19.280.020; and

(ii) Electrical energy or gas produced or generated from renewable ((energy)) resources ((such as solar energy, wind energy, hydroelectric energy, geothermal energy, wood, wood wastes, municipal wastes, agricultural products and wastes, and end-use waste heat)) as defined in RCW 19.285.030; and

(b) Those amounts expended to improve consumers' efficiency of energy end use or to otherwise reduce the use of electrical energy or gas by the consumer.

(2) This section applies only to the following facilities:

(a) New facilities for the production or generation of energy from ((cogeneration or renewable energy resources)) combined heat and power or renewable resources or measures to improve the efficiency of energy end use on which construction or installation is begun after June 12, 1980, and before January 1, 1990; and

(b) New facilities for the production or generation of electricity from renewable resources on which construction or installation is begun after January 1, 2020, and before January 1, 2028.

(3) Deductions under subsection (1)(a) of this section ((shall be)) are allowed for a period not to exceed thirty years after the project is placed in operation.

(4) Measures or projects encouraged under this section ((shall)) at the time they are placed in service must be reasonably expected to save, produce, or generate energy at a total incremental system cost per unit of energy delivered to end use which is less than or equal to the incremental system cost per unit of energy delivered to end use from similarly available conventional energy resources which utilize nuclear energy or fossil fuels and which the gas or electric utility could acquire to meet energy demand in the same time period.

(5) The department of revenue, after consultation with the utilities and transportation commission in the case of investor-owned utilities and the governing bodies of locally regulated utilities, ((shall)) must determine the eligibility of individual projects and measures for deductions under this section.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 5.  A new section is added to chapter 82.16 RCW to read as follows:

(1) The definitions in this subsection apply throughout this section unless the context clearly requires otherwise.

(a) "Carbon reduction investment" means an investment in support of eligible projects or actions that reduce, prevent, or remove from the atmosphere the emissions of greenhouse gases in the state. An eligible project or action includes, but is not limited to, investment in the following: (i) Installation of electric vehicle chargers and related infrastructure and other transportation electrification measures; (ii) demand side management of electricity consumption; (iii) energy storage technologies; and (iv) carbon sequestration programs, including forest health investments.

(b) "Greenhouse gas" means carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen trifluoride, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and other fluorinated greenhouse gases.

(2) In computing the tax imposed under this chapter, a credit is authorized for persons who reduce their own greenhouse gas emissions through carbon reduction investment projects.

(3)(a) The credit is equal to the total amount of carbon reduction investment project expenditures of a person.

(b) Credit may be earned by a person for multiple carbon reduction investment projects.

(c) Credit earned under this section may equal or exceed the tax otherwise due under this chapter for the tax reporting period. Any unused credit may be accrued and carried over until it is used.

(4) No application is necessary for the tax credit. The person must keep records necessary for the department to verify eligibility under this section. The person is subject to all of the requirements of chapter 82.32 RCW. No refunds may be granted for credits under this section.

(5) If at any time the department finds that a person is not eligible for the tax credit under this section, the amount of taxes for which a credit has been claimed is immediately due. The department must assess interest, but not penalties, on the taxes for which the person is not eligible. The interest must be assessed at the rate provided for delinquent excise taxes under chapter 82.32 RCW, is retroactive to the date the tax credit was taken, and accrues until the taxes for which a credit has been used are repaid.

(6) A person claiming the credit under this section must file a complete annual report with the department under RCW 82.32.534.

(7) This section expires January 1, 2029.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 6.  A new section is added to chapter 82.63 RCW to read as follows:

(1)(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the department must issue a sales and use tax deferral certificate for state and local sales and use taxes due under chapters 82.08, 82.12, 82.14, and 81.104 RCW on each eligible renewable energy investment project.

(b) The amount of tax imposed under chapters 82.08 and 82.12 RCW eligible for a deferral under a certificate issued pursuant to this section is limited to one million dollars per eligible renewable energy investment project per person. Once a person reaches the one million dollar limit in this subsection (1)(b), the person may no longer defer under this chapter any state or local sales or use taxes due on the eligible renewable energy investment project.

(2) The department may not issue deferral certificates under this section until January 1, 2020.

(3) The definitions in this subsection apply throughout this section unless the context clearly requires otherwise.

(a) "Eligible renewable energy investment project" means an investment project that either initiates a new renewable energy generation facility or expands, upgrades, or improves a current renewable energy generation facility by increasing its energy efficiency or energy capacity, and includes new or upgraded transmission and distribution infrastructure necessary to connect the project to the electrical grid.

(b) "Renewable energy generation facility" means an electric generation facility powered by a renewable resource, as that term is defined in RCW 19.285.030.

(4) This section expires January 1, 2028.

(i) The president of the senate must appoint two voting members from each of the two largest caucuses of the senate.

(ii) The speaker of the house of representatives must appoint two voting members from each of the two largest caucuses of the house of representatives.

(iii) The president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives jointly must appoint the following nonvoting members representing relevant stakeholders:

(A) The governor, or the governor's designee;

(B) Three representatives of investor-owned utilities;

(C) Four representatives of consumer-owned utilities, with one representative of each of the following: A utility that owns and operates thermal electric generation resources, a utility that owns and operates hydroelectric generation resources, a utility that does not own and operate thermal electric generation resources or hydroelectric generation resources, and a rural electric cooperative;

(D) One representative of industrial ratepayers;

(E) One representative of the Bonneville power administration;

(F) Three representatives of organizations which advocate for clean energy technologies and greenhouse gas emissions reductions;

(G) One representative of a statewide labor organization; and

(H) Public counsel or an advocate for electric utility ratepayers designated by public counsel.

(iv) The governor must appoint nonvoting members in an advisory role including, but not limited to, the following:

(A) One representative of the Washington state utilities and transportation commission;

(B) One representative of the department of commerce;

(C) Two representatives of the two largest state institutions of higher education;

(D) One representative of the Pacific Northwest national laboratory;

(E) An expert in, or developer of, clean energy technologies;

(F) One representative of the Northwest power and planning council; and

(G) One representative of the Western electricity coordinating council.

(b) The task force must choose its cochairs from among its legislative membership. The chair of the joint committee on energy supply and energy conservation shall convene the initial meeting of the task force.

(2) The task force must determine the appropriate carbon reduction targets for electric utilities, to be achieved according to the following schedule:

(a) January 1, 2030, and each year thereafter through December 31, 2034;

(b) January 1, 2035, and each year thereafter through December 31, 2039;

(c) January 1, 2040, and each year thereafter through December 31, 2044; and

(d) January 1, 2045, and each year thereafter.

(3) In determining the targets under subsection (2) of this section, the task force must review the technological feasibility, timeline, cost, and other impacts of transitioning Washington's electricity sector to carbon free generation resources, including but not limited to the following issues:

(a) Technological feasibility, including an examination of resources known to be commercially available, the potential for storage, and replacement of baseload fossil fuel generation;

(b) Reliability, ratepayer costs, and regional market impacts, including impacts on multistate utilities, energy imbalance markets, the potential for negative pricing, and impacts on renewable energy credit markets;

(c) The unique aspects of Washington's utilities;

(d) The effect of transportation electrification and the electrification of other sectors on a utility's load;

(e) The potential policy interactions between an emission reduction requirement for the electricity sector and other carbon reduction policies;

(f) An assessment of appropriate incentives, if any, to facilitate the transition to carbon free generation resources;

(g) Federal and state regulatory and legal considerations; and

(h) Equitable treatment among utilities.

(4) Staff support for the task force must be provided by the senate committee services and the house of representatives office of program research.

(5) Legislative members of the task force are reimbursed for travel expenses in accordance with RCW 44.04.120. Nonlegislative members are not entitled to be reimbursed for travel expenses if they are elected officials or are participating on behalf of an employer, governmental entity, or other organization. Any reimbursement for other nonlegislative members is subject to chapter 43.03 RCW.

(6) The expenses of the task force must be paid jointly by the senate and the house of representatives. Task force expenditures are subject to approval by the senate facilities and operations committee and the house of representatives executive rules committee, or their successor committees.

(7) The task force must convene at least four meetings in 2018.

(8) In order for a recommendation to be included in the report, it must be supported by a majority of the task force's voting members. Minority reports or comments must be included in the report.

(9) The task force must report its findings and recommendations to the governor and the appropriate committees of the legislature, in compliance with RCW 43.01.036, by January 1, 2019.

(10) This section expires January 1, 2019.

(a) RCW 19.285.010 (Intent) and 2007 c 1 s 1;

(b) RCW 19.285.020 (Declaration of policy) and 2007 c 1 s 2;

(c) RCW 19.285.030 (Definitions) and 2017 c 315 s 1 & 2014 c 45 s 1;

(d) RCW 19.285.040 (Energy conservation and renewable energy targets) and 2017 c 315 s 2, 2014 c 26 s 1, 2013 c 158 s 2, 2012 c 22 s 3, & 2007 c 1 s 4;

(e) RCW 19.285.045 (Energy conservation and renewable energy targets—Analysis and advisory opinion) and 2012 c 254 s 1;

(f) RCW 19.285.050 (Resource costs) and 2007 c 1 s 5;

(g) RCW 19.285.060 (Accountability and enforcement—Energy independence act special account) and 2015 c 225 s 22 & 2007 c 1 s 6;

(h) RCW 19.285.070 (Reporting and public disclosure) and 2007 c 1 s 7;

(i) RCW 19.285.080 (Rule making) and 2017 c 315 s 3 & 2007 c 1 s 8;

(j) RCW 19.285.900 (Construction—2007 c 1) and 2007 c 1 s 9; and

(k) RCW 19.285.902 (Short title—2007 c 1) and 2007 c 1 s 11.

(2) The department of commerce must provide written notice of the effective date of the act that repeals the sections identified in this section to all affected parties, the chief clerk of the house of representatives, the secretary of the senate, the office of the code reviser, and others as deemed appropriate by the department of commerce.

Correct the title.

EFFECT: Strikes the underlying material. Suspends the 15 percent annual renewable resource target under the Energy Independence Act beginning January 1, 2028. Establishes tax preferences for certain renewable energy and carbon reduction investments. Establishes a legislative task force on carbon free, renewable, and economical energy. Repeals the Energy Independence Act effective upon the effective date of any act by the legislature that imposes a tax, fee, or other monetary price on the carbon content of fossil fuels and electricity sold or used within the state, such as a carbon tax or cap-and-trade program.