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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 863

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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 Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, 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: Carpenter (D) , Dassler-Alfheim (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Larson (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Roys (D) , Smith (D) , Spreitzer (D)

24 cosponsors

Andraca (D) , Bare (D) , Brown (D) , Clancy (D) , DeSmidt (D) , Fitzgerald (D) , Hong (D) , J. Jacobson (D) , Joers (D) , Madison (D) , Mayadev (D) , Miresse (D) , Moore Omokunde (D) , Neubauer (D) , Palmeri (D) , Sheehan (D) , Sinicki (D) , Stroud (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Taylor (D) , Tenorio (D) , Udell (D) , Vining (D)

Full history

  1. Jan 23, 2026 · Senate

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

  2. Jan 23, 2026 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Education

  3. Feb 2, 2026 · Senate

    Representative Clancy added as a cosponsor

  4. Feb 3, 2026 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Feb 26, 2026 · Senate

    Representative Subeck added as a cosponsor

  6. Mar 19, 2026 · Senate

    Representative Mayadev added as a cosponsor

  7. Mar 19, 2026 · Senate

    Representative J. Jacobson added as a cosponsor

  8. Mar 23, 2026 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1