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Committees · 2026 Regular Session

Climate, Energy, and Environment

A House of Representatives committee, in every session since the 2023 session.

Other sessions: 2025 · 2024 · 2023

Members

In the 2026 Regular Session. Each name leads to the member's page.

Bills, so far

Bills sent to the committee in the 2026 Regular Session so far.

  • Bills sent12

    5% of the bills the House of Representatives sent to committees

  • Reported out75%

    9 of 12; 3 stopped in committee

  • Time in committeetoo few to say

  • Amendments offered0

    committee amendments

In every session

Each session on day 278 of its term, or its last day if its term was shorter. The 2026 is so far.

  • 2026 · so far12 bills

    reported 75% · too few to say · 0 amendments · 12 members

  • 2025135 bills

    reported 41% · typically 51 days, most 34–70 · 0 amendments · 11 members

  • 20249 bills

    reported 100% · too few to say · 0 amendments · 10 members

  • 202392 bills

    reported 43% · typically 41 days, most 20–63 · 0 amendments · 10 members

Bills it was sent

Each time a bill was sent to the committee in the 2026 Regular Session, newest first.

12 bills

  • House Bill 4029 · Requires a solar energy contractor or person that installs a solar energy system to have a license appropriate for the scope of work the solar energy contractor or person will perform.

    Sent February 2, 2026 · Reported out after 9 days, 11–0 · then passed the House of Representatives, and became law

  • House Bill 4030 · Exempts packaging for certain berries and meat, poultry, fish and seafood from producer responsibility requirements for packaging, paper and food serviceware.

    Sent February 2, 2026 · Reported out after 11 days, 11–1

  • House Bill 4031 · Exempts an energy facility from needing a site certificate from the Energy Facility Siting Council if the energy facility produces power from a renewable energy source, qualifies for certain federal renewable energy tax credits and is placed in service on or before December 31, 2030, or a date allowed by exception and a local land use application for the facility is submitted on or before December 31, 2028.

    Sent February 2, 2026 · Reported out after 9 days, 10–1 · then passed the House of Representatives, and became law

  • House Bill 4046 · Directs the State Department of Energy, subject to the availability of funding, to conduct a study on nuclear energy, including advanced nuclear reactors.

    Sent February 2, 2026 · Reported out after 15 days, 12–0

  • House Bill 4056 · Appropriates moneys to the State Forestry Department to offset landowners' costs of fire protection provided by the department.

    Sent February 2, 2026 · Stopped in committee after 32 days

  • House Bill 4060 · Exempts sales to purchasers with facilities totaling more than one million square feet from a prohibition on sales of certain fluorescent lamps until January 1, 2030.

    Sent February 2, 2026 · Reported out after 11 days, 12–0 · then passed the House of Representatives, and became law

  • House Bill 4076 · Requires the Energy Facility Siting Council to find that reasons justify why the state policy in applicable statewide planning goals should not apply to a proposed energy facility if the council finds that the proposed energy facility will deliver electricity to the electric grid using an existing energy facility's surplus interconnection and does not require associated transmission lines more than two miles from the existing energy facility.

    Sent February 2, 2026 · Reported out after 14 days, 11–1 · then passed the House of Representatives, and became law

  • House Bill 4077 · Authorizes a public utility, upon approval by the Public Utility Commission, to issue bonds and securitize debt for costs and expenses incurred or to be incurred by the public utility associated with a self-insurance or captive insurance program.

    Sent February 2, 2026 · Reported out after 11 days, 11–1 · then passed the House of Representatives, and became law

  • House Bill 4080 · Allows a retail electricity consumer to install and use portable solar photovoltaic energy devices with up to a total maximum generating capacity of 1,200 watts.

    Sent February 2, 2026 · Stopped in committee after 32 days

  • House Bill 4102 · Modifies the authority of the Department of Environmental Quality to enter into agreements with regulated entities to expedite or enhance a regulatory process.

    Sent February 2, 2026 · Reported out after 4 days, 11–1 · then passed the House of Representatives, and became law

  • House Bill 4129 · Limits greenhouse gas emission reductions, for purposes of low carbon fuel standards, to 10 percent below 2010 levels.

    Sent February 2, 2026 · Stopped in committee after 32 days

  • House Bill 4144 · Requires producers of batteries or battery-containing products to join a battery producer responsibility organization and implement a battery producer responsibility program for the collection and recycling of batteries.

    Sent February 2, 2026 · Reported out after 11 days, 12–0 · then passed the House of Representatives, and became law