Legislature 2025-26: Senate Ways & Means Committee (Ron Muzzall)

State Senator Ron Muzzall (R-Oak Harbor) serves on the Senate Ways & Means Committee. The committee has scheduled a meeting for Tue., Jan. 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM in Senate Hearing Room 4, J.A. Cherberg Building in Olympia.

Work Session

1. Overview of the Washington State Institute for Public Policy (WSIPP).
2. Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee (JLARC) tax preference reviews.

Public Hearing

1. SB 5063 – Providing incentives to improve freight railroad infrastructure. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
2. SB 5259 – Creating a sales and use tax exemption for bait purchased for commercial fishing. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
3. SB 5252 – Removing the acreage limit on the property tax exemption for nonprofit public assembly halls and meeting places. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
4. SB 5316 – Modifying provisions of the revised uniform unclaimed property act. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
5. SB 5111 – Concerning the excise tax treatment of amounts received by title and escrow businesses from clients for remittance to a county filing office for the purpose of recording documents. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
6. SB 5314 – Modifying the capital gains tax. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify

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