Ron Muzzall – Senate Ways & Means Committee

State Senator Ron Muzzall (R-Oak Harbor) serves on the Senate Ways & Means Committee. The committee has scheduled a meeting for Tue., Jan. 23, 2024 at 4:00 PM in Senate Hearing Room 4, J.A. Cherberg Building in Olympia.

Public Hearing

1. SB 6069 – Improving retirement security for Washingtonians by establishing Washington saves, an automatic enrollment individual retirement savings account program, and updating the Washington retirement marketplace statute. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
2. SB 6106 – Including in the public safety employees’ retirement system specified competency restoration workers at department of social and health services institutional and residential sites that serve civilly committed residents or serve patients under not guilty by reason of insanity findings. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
3. SB 6198 – Concerning employees of the law enforcement officers’ and firefighters’ plan 2 retirement board. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
4. SB 6263 – Concerning death benefits provided by the 1955 act for firefighters’ relief and pensions. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
5. SB 6197 – Concerning the law enforcement officers’ and firefighters’ retirement system plan 2. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
6. SB 5873 – Providing adequate and predictable student transportation. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
7. SB 5591 – Providing dependent youth with financial education and support. (Hearing is on the Proposed Substitute.) (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
8. SB 5660 – Establishing a mental health advance directive effective implementation work group; creating a new section; and providing an expiration date. (Hearing is on the Proposed Substitute.) (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify

Executive Session

1. SB 5881 – Concerning membership in the public employees’ retirement system for certain part-time bus drivers employed full-time by the federal government.
2. SB 6094 – Aligning statutory language concerning the retired state employee and retired or disabled school employee health insurance subsidy with the historical interpretation and implementation of the relevant subsidy language in the operating budget.

Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. Possible other business. See https://app.leg.wa.gov/CSI/Senate for testimony options. To view committee meetings or access the committee meeting documents, visit the Legislature’s committee schedules, agendas, and documents website: https://app.leg.wa.gov/committeeschedules