HB 2412-S - DIGEST |
(DIGEST OF PROPOSED 1ST SUBSTITUTE) |
Establishes the buy clean Washington act. |
Requires the University of Washington, led by the college of built environments, and in collaboration with the department of enterprise services, to: (1) Analyze existing embodied carbon policy; |
(2) Propose methods to categorize structural materials and report structural material quantities and origins, and global warming potential; |
(3) Propose methods to establish maximum global warming potential limit; |
(4) Convene a task force to give feedback on the proposed methods; and |
(5) Report the developed methods, by January 31, 2019, to the legislature. |
Requires the department of enterprise services to coordinate with certain projects. |
Requires the awarding authorities for these projects to collaborate with the University of Washington college of built environments to test proposed methods and availability of environmental product declarations. |