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 Sat., Feb. 3, 2024 at 9:00 AM in Senate Hearing Room 4, J.A. Cherberg Building in Olympia.

Executive Session

1. SB 6296 – Establishing a retail industry work group.
2. SB 5799 – Concerning the sale of halal foods.
3. SB 5427 – Concerning people who have been targeted or affected by hate crimes and bias incidents.
4. SSB 5838 – Establishing an artificial intelligence task force.
5. SB 6098 – Concerning accounts.
6. SB 5986 – Protecting consumers from out-of-network health care services charges.
7. SB 5906 – Implementing a statewide drug overdose prevention and education campaign.
8. SSB 5943 – Conducting a feasibility study regarding a resource data tool to connect Washington residents to services and resources.
9. SB 6286 – Addressing the anesthesia workforce shortage by reducing barriers and expanding educational opportunities to increase the supply of certified registered nurse anesthetists in Washington.
10. SSB 6110 – Modernizing the child fatality statute.
11. 3SSB 5438 – Facilitating supportive relationships with family and significant individuals within the behavioral health system.
12. SSB 5937 – Supporting crime victims and witnesses by promoting victim-centered, trauma-informed responses.
13. SB 6308 – Extending timelines for implementation of the 988 system.
14. SSB 6228 – Concerning treatment of substance use disorders.
15. SSB 5853 – Extending the crisis relief center model to provide behavioral health crisis services for minors.
16. SSB 6251 – Coordinating regional behavioral crisis response services.
17. SSB 6220 – Concerning high THC cannabis products.
18. SSB 5953 – Concerning financial aid grants for incarcerated students.
19. SSB 6021 – Reducing fees and expenses for services for people confined to correctional facilities.
20. SB 5981 – Concerning the indeterminate sentence review board.
21. SSB 5893 – Providing gate money to incarcerated individuals at the department of corrections.
22. SSB 6273 – Conducting an audit of the juvenile rehabilitation system.
23. SSB 6187 – Concerning the body scanner pilot program at the department of corrections.
24. SB 6242 – Concerning law enforcement training.
25. SB 6301 – Concerning basic law enforcement academy.
26. SB 5811 – Expanding the definition of family member for individual providers.
27. SB 5802 – Providing flexibility in calculation of nursing rates.
28. SSB 6068 – Reporting on dependency outcomes.
29. SSB 5774 – Increasing the capacity to conduct timely fingerprint-based background checks for prospective child care employees and other programs.
30. SSB 5908 – Providing extended foster care services to youth ages 18 to 21.
31. SSB 6109 – Supporting children and families.
32. SSB 6006 – Supporting victims of human trafficking and sexual abuse.
33. SSB 5780 – Encouraging participation in public defense and prosecution professions.
34. SB 5889 – Establishing the customer voice council.
35. SB 6247 – Concerning public employees’ retirement system plan 2 service credit for officers of labor organizations.
36. SSB 5924 – Concerning access to personnel records.
37. SSB 6194 – Concerning state legislative employee collective bargaining.
38. SB 6125 – Preserving records and artifacts regarding the historical treatment of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Washington state.
39. SB 5373 – Requiring equal reimbursement for advanced registered nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and physicians.
40. SSB 5825 – Concerning guardianship and conservatorship.
41. SB 6038 – Reducing the costs associated with providing child care.
42. SB 6238 – Updating thresholds for the property tax exemption for widows and widowers of honorably discharged veterans.
43. SB 5770 – Providing state and local property tax reform.
44. SSB 6158 – Concerning public facilities districts.
45. SB 5911 – Enhancing cancer research funding by dedicating a portion of state sales tax collections in October to the Andy Hill cancer research endowment fund.
46. SSB 5118 – Modifying the multifamily property tax exemption to promote development of long-term affordable housing.
47. SB 6013 – Expanding the homeownership development property tax exemption to include real property sold to low-income households for building residences using mutual self-help housing construction.
48. SB 6030 – Amending the county population threshold for counties that may exempt from taxation the value of accessory dwelling units to incentivize rental to low-income households.
49. SSB 6175 – Concerning housing affordability tax incentives for existing structures.
50. SB 6215 – Improving tax and revenue laws.
51. SSB 5946 – Establishing a fallen firefighter memorial.
52. SSB 6121 – Concerning agricultural and forestry biomass.
53. SSB 6092 – Concerning disclosure of greenhouse gas emissions.
54. SSB 6163 – Concerning biosolids.
55. SSB 6058 – Facilitating linkage of Washington’s carbon market with the California-Quebec carbon market.
56. SB 5978 – Authorizing the office of the superintendent of public instruction to act as a guarantor for a county when the county provides a loan to a school district.
57. SB 5789 – Concerning the sales and use tax for school construction assistance program capital projects.
58. SSB 5444 – Concerning firearm sensitive places.
59. SSB 5972 – Concerning the use of neonicotinoid pesticides.
60. SSB 5784 – Concerning deer and elk damage to commercial crops.
61. SB 6036 – Concerning agriculture pest and disease response.
62. SSB 6039 – Promoting the development of geothermal energy resources.
63. SSB 5600 – Extending the expiration date for the state universal communications services program.
64. SB 5902 – Reinvesting account revenue for the purpose of supporting the state park system.
65. SB 6100 – Making expenditures from the budget stabilization account for declared catastrophic events.
66. SSB 5598 – Concerning funding of legalized horse racing and the recreational use of horses in Washington state.
67. SB 6087 – Concerning the fire service training account.
68. SB 5803 – Concerning the recruitment and retention of Washington national guard members.
69. SB 5904 – Extending the terms of eligibility for financial aid programs.
70. SSB 6221 – Concerning the Washington national primate research center at the University of Washington.
71. SB 6031 – Modifying the student transportation allocation to accommodate multiple vehicle types for transporting students.
72. SB 5873 – Providing adequate and predictable student transportation.
73. SSB 5956 – Concerning the maximum per-pupil limit for enrichment levies.
74. SSB 5809 – Concerning enrichment funding for charter public schools.
75. SSB 5882 – Increasing prototypical school staffing to better meet student needs.
76. SSB 6264 – Supporting the implementation of competency-based education.
77. SB 5850 – Supporting students who are chronically absent and at risk for not graduating high school.
78. SSB 5849 – Concerning a computer science competency graduation requirement.
79. SB 5852 – Concerning special education safety net awards.
80. SSB 5955 – Mitigating harm and improving equity in large port districts.
81. SB 6080 – Simplifying the funding provisions of the statewide tourism marketing account.
82. SSB 5851 – Concerning Holocaust and genocide education in public schools.

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