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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 876

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Relating to: an energy efficiency grant program for school districts, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)

Energy conservation Public instruction department of School — Building

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill creates a program under which the Department of Public Instruction must award grants to school districts for energy efficiency projects in school buildings. Under the bill, for the first two school years of the grant program, DPI must give preference in awarding grants to projects that relate to heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. The bill provides $10,000,000 in each year of the fiscal biennium for this grant program.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Anderson (D) , Bare (D) , Brown (D) , DeSmidt (D) , Fitzgerald (D) , Hong (D) , Joers (D) , Madison (D) , Miresse (D) , Moore Omokunde (D) , Neubauer (D) , Palmeri (D) , Sheehan (D) , Sinicki (D) , Stroud (D) , Stubbs (D) , Taylor (D) , Tenorio (D) , Udell (D) , Vining (D)

12 cosponsors

Carpenter (D) , Clancy (D) , Dassler-Alfheim (D) , Hesselbein (D) , J. Jacobson (D) , Larson (D) , Mayadev (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Roys (D) , Smith (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Subeck (D)

Full history

  1. Jan 16, 2026 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Joers, Anderson, Bare, Brown, DeSmidt, Fitzgerald, Hong, Madison, Miresse, Moore Omokunde, Neubauer, Palmeri, Sheehan, Sinicki, Stroud, Stubbs, Taylor, Tenorio, Udell and Vining; cosponsored by Senators Carpenter, Smith, Dassler-Alfheim, Hesselbein, Larson, Ratcliff, Roys and Spreitzer

  2. Jan 16, 2026 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Energy and Utilities

  3. Feb 2, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative Clancy added as a coauthor

  4. Feb 3, 2026 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Feb 26, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative Subeck added as a coauthor

  6. Mar 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative Mayadev added as a coauthor

  7. Mar 20, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative J. Jacobson added as a coauthor

  8. Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1