This bill creates a new chapter in Title 70A RCW that establishes producer responsibility for textiles and apparel, reenacts and amends RCW 43.21B.110 and 43.21B.300, prescribes civil penalties and enforcement procedures, and sets an expiration date (Sections 1–13 expire July 1, 2030). It requires covered-product producers to appoint or join registered textile and apparel coordinating organizations, sets registration and membership deadlines and fees, directs those organizations to prepare statewide needs assessments to inform a future extended producer responsibility (EPR) program emphasizing repair and reuse, and creates a state account to hold fees and pay department costs. Legally, the bill creates a new regulatory program and procedural framework rather than immediately imposing a full EPR fee system: it defines covered products, producers, collectors, sorters, responsible markets and other terms; requires coordinating organizations to submit needs assessments by early 2028 and to fund assessments and department regulatory costs; prescribes plan priorities and standards (prioritizing repair, reuse, repurposing/upcycling and recycling, minimizing disposal and export dumping, supporting laundries, addressing design issues, and following the state waste hierarchy), and sets presumptive collection-site minimums and presumptions about free transport and incentives to favor reuse. It also establishes an advisory council, antitrust/state-action immunity for compliance activities, limits on use of coordinating-organization funds (for example prohibiting use for lobbying or paying penalties), confidentiality protections for individual producer data, and a requirement that online marketplaces report large third-party sellers. The bill creates new enforcement and appeal procedures: the Department may impose civil penalties (with stated per-violation daily maximums for persons and higher maximums for coordinating organizations), must give written notice and a cure period before penalties, and penalties and related orders may be appealed to the Pollution Control Hearings Board; certain penalty receipts are directed to specified state accounts and procedures for collection and judicial enforcement are specified. It also directs the Department to review needs assessments and to submit recommendations to the legislature by September 15, 2028 about structuring a 2029 EPR program. Some elements in the provided text are incomplete or cut off: the full definition of “socially vulnerable population” is truncated, parts of certain plan requirements and enforcement text for coordinating organizations are mid-sentence or missing, and additional procedural or penalty details likely appear in later sections not provided here. I have summarized only the provisions contained in the extracted facts.

If enacted, companies that make, brand, import, distribute, or sell new clothing and textile products in Washington will need to join or create nonprofit “textile and apparel coordinating organizations” that organize and pay for a statewide study and planning process to shift the system toward repair, reuse, and responsible recycling. Those producers will face new administrative and financial obligations: register with the state, provide lists of brands, share data, pay start-up and annual fees to the department and coordinating organizations, and ultimately bear costs distributed among participating producers; lower-volume sellers and strictly secondhand sellers are exempt. Coordinating organizations must plan specific collection coverage (minimum sites per county), provide free transport from collection sites to sorters or repair organizations, include incentives and market-development grants (including to nonprofit resellers and laundries), and prioritize local sorting, repair, and preventing harmful exports, while being barred from using program funds for lobbying or certain legal costs. The practical effects for collectors, sorters, repairers, laundries, secondhand markets, and online marketplaces include more predictable funding and new expectations: collection site minimums and free transport should increase collection and movement of textiles, online marketplaces must report large third-party sellers, and non‑profits may become eligible for incentive payments. Producers who fail to sign up or whose coordinating organizations miss statutory deadlines risk civil penalties and enforcement actions that can be appealed to the Pollution Control Hearings Board. Key implementation details remain uncertain from the provided text—most importantly the final fee levels, exact eco‑modulated fee formulas, enforcement amounts for some entities, and how this temporary program (sections expire July 1, 2030) will transition into any longer-term law.