HB 1886-S - DIGEST

(DIGEST OF PROPOSED 1ST SUBSTITUTE)

Finds that the adoption of practices to select, procure, and use environmentally preferred products will benefit the environment and the health and safety of workers and visitors to state facilities.

Requires the department of general administration, in consultation with the department of health and the department of ecology, to provide consultation and guidance to state agencies to: (1) Select and procure products and use practices that reduce or minimize the risks of harmful effects to employees, custodial workers, visitors, and other building occupants and to the environment;

(2) Promote adoption of practices endorsed by this act;

(3) Recognize state agencies that adopt and implement environmentally beneficial facility and workplace management policies and practices;

(4) Encourage contractors supplying goods and services to state agencies to select and procure such products; and

(5) Encourage lessors and building managers who provide leased space to state agencies to select and procure such products.

Encourages local governments and school districts to review their purchasing and use of cleaning products and select those having properties that minimize potential impacts to human health and the environment consistent with this act. The department of general administration shall encourage local governments and school districts that are members of the department of general administration's state purchasing cooperative to achieve the goals of this act.

Requires state agencies to transition to cleaning products having properties that minimize potential impacts to human health and the environment within six months of the effective date of this act in a manner that avoids waste of existing inventories, accommodates establishment of supply chains for new products, enables the training of personnel in appropriate work practices, and allows the phase out of products and practices inconsistent with this act.