This bill creates a new statutory prohibition and enforcement scheme banning the intentional injection, release, dispersion, or energizing of chemicals, compounds, substances, nano particulates, or related apparatus into the atmosphere within Washington or in locations affecting Washington’s atmospheric or hydrological systems for the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, climate, or sunlight intensity. The text lists specific examples of covered activities (including stratospheric aerosol injections, cloud seeding, certain atmospheric interruptions, and dispersal by aircraft, balloons, drones, satellites, or specified land-based equipment). It establishes new criminal penalties for violations: generally a class C felony (with confinement per RCW 9A.20.021 and fines up to $1,000,000), escalating to class B felony for repeat offenses; corporations and their officers or employees are subject to analogous felony liability; aircraft operators/controllers face designated penalties with statutory maximums of imprisonment and fines noted separately. Each violation is a separate offense, and all monetary penalties collected are to be deposited into the air pollution control account created in RCW 70A.15.1010. The bill adds procedural enforcement and reporting mechanisms. It requires the Department of Ecology to set up public reporting intake (online form, email address, phone, mail), screen and investigate reports, refer matters to the Department of Health or the state military department’s emergency management division where appropriate, and permits the department to adopt implementing rules. It authorizes private civil enforcement: any person may sue to enforce the chapter, to compel Ecology to investigate or enforce, or to sue Ecology for failure to perform nondiscretionary duties, subject to a 60-day notice requirement (or earlier if Ecology has commenced enforcement); prevailing parties may be awarded litigation costs and fees where appropriate. The Department of Transportation must receive monthly reports from public infrastructure operators (defined by reference to RCW 47.68.020) about aircraft with parts capable of intentional emissions and related operations, beginning October 1, 2026; DOT may withhold state funds for noncompliant projects, must aggregate and forward reports to Ecology and relevant law enforcement, include reporting guidance in state-funded airport grant agreements, and may adopt rules. The bill also amends and reorganizes related statutes and accounts: it removes chapter 70A.10 RCW from the list of statutes for which Ecology may issue regulatory orders, adds receipts from this act to the air pollution control account, creates an air operating permit account to receive specified permit program receipts and limits the use of both accounts to implementing listed chapters and activities (with distributions to local authorities based on prescribed criteria), and repeals numerous sections of RCW chapter 70A.10 and one other RCW. A severability clause is included. Important context is missing: the text provided ends mid-amendment and does not show the full contents of the repealed sections or any additional definitions, exceptions, standards, or procedures that may appear elsewhere in the bill, so some implementation details and the full statutory interplay cannot be confirmed from the available excerpts.

If enacted, the bill would make a wide range of intentional atmospheric and weather‑modification activities a criminal offense and expose corporations, aircraft operators, airport operators, and any organizations involved to heavy fines, prison time for individuals in some cases, and increased civil litigation risk from private citizens who can sue after giving 60 days’ notice. The Department of Ecology would be the central investigator and must set up public reporting channels and referrals to public health and emergency management, while the Department of Transportation must begin receiving monthly reports from public airports about aircraft equipped to disperse agents starting October 1, 2026 and can withhold state funds for noncompliant infrastructure; DOT will pass aggregated information to Ecology and law enforcement, and state-funded airport grants must include reporting rules. Penalties collected would be directed into the state air pollution control account and new or existing permit receipts would be deposited into a newly defined air operating permit account, with Ecology authorized to distribute money to local authorities based on local air quality needs, implementation costs, and other funding availability; funds may only be spent after appropriation and only for the chapters cited. Important details are missing from the available text — several repealed sections are listed but their prior contents and how those repeals change existing permits, programs, or exceptions are not shown, so the full operational impact and any narrow definitions or exemptions remain uncertain.