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 Fri., Feb. 2, 2024 at 1:30 PM in Senate Hearing Room 4, J.A. Cherberg Building in Olympia.

Public Hearing

1. SSB 5810 – Clarifying the collective bargaining unit for interpreters providing language access services to certain state agencies. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
2. SB 5895 – Concerning collective bargaining for certain employees who are enrolled in academic programs at public institutions of higher education. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
3. SSB 5853 – Extending the crisis relief center model to provide behavioral health crisis services for minors. (Hearing is on the Proposed Substitute.) (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
4. SSB 5943 – Conducting a feasibility study regarding a resource data tool to connect Washington residents to services and resources. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify

Executive Session

1. SSB 5667 – Concerning eligibility, enrollment, and compensation of small forestland owners volunteering for participation in the forestry riparian easement program.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. SB 6197 – Concerning the law enforcement officers’ and firefighters’ retirement system plan 2.
5. SSB 5591 – Providing dependent youth with financial education and support.
6. SSB 5660 – Establishing a mental health advance directive effective implementation work group.
7. SB 6198 – Concerning employees of the law enforcement officers’ and firefighters’ plan 2 retirement board.
8. SB 6263 – Concerning death benefits provided by the 1955 act for firefighters’ relief and pensions.

Meeting is scheduled to end at 6:00 p.m. 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