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Senate Bill 5526 — State of Washington, 67th Legislature, 2022 Regular Session

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Senate Bill 5526, State of Washington 67th Legislature, 2022 Regular Session, by Senators Fortunato, Padden and J. Wilson. It was prefiled 12/09/21, read first time 01/10/22 and referred to the Committee on Business, Financial Services & Trade. The bill relates to studying the global availability of lithium and rare earth minerals for battery manufacturing. Section 1 provides that by December 31, 2023, the department of commerce shall submit a report to the legislature examining the global availability of lithium and rare earth minerals used in battery manufacturing, and that the department may consult the Pacific Northwest national laboratory. It also states that the legislature intends to appropriate sufficient moneys to carry out the purposes of the act.

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     S-3199.1

                               SENATE BILL 5526


     State of Washington       67th Legislature       2022 Regular Session

     By Senators Fortunato, Padden, and J. Wilson

     Prefiled 12/09/21. Read first time 01/10/22.    Referred to Committee
     on Business, Financial Services & Trade.




1        AN ACT Relating to studying the global availability of lithium
2    and rare earth minerals for battery manufacturing; and creating a new
3    section.


4    BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:


 5       NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. (1) The legislature finds that while the
 6   state is increasingly encouraging new energy storage technologies
 7   such as electric vehicles and electric grid scale battery storage,
 8   these technologies are dependent on rare earth minerals and
 9   difficult-to-source earth components. Current battery production
10   processes can require cobalt, lithium, nickel, manganese, neodymium,
11   iron, copper, aluminum, and phosphate among additional minerals.
12   Thus, by December 31, 2023, the department of commerce shall submit a
13   report to the legislature examining the global availability of
14   lithium and rare earth minerals used in battery manufacturing. The
15   department of commerce may consult the Pacific Northwest national
16   laboratory and the joint center for the deployment and research in
17   earth abundant materials to prepare the report.
18       (2) The legislature intends to appropriate sufficient moneys to
19   carry out the purposes of this act.

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