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., Feb. 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM in Senate Hearing Room 4, J.A. Cherberg Building in Olympia.

Public Hearing

1. SB 5682 – Concerning the Washington customized employment training program. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
2. SB 5697 – Providing a property tax exemption for property owned by a qualifying nonprofit organization and loaned, leased, or rented to and used by any government entity to provide character-building, benevolent, protective, or rehabilitative social services. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
3. SB 5411 – Concerning the tax treatment of pilates studios and gymnastics facilities. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
4. SB 5696 – Concerning the sales and use tax supporting chemical dependency and mental health treatment programs. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
5. SB 5518 – Authorizing funding tools to mitigate the impact of sales tax sourcing in certain cities that host industrial and warehousing industries. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
6. SSB 5203 – Ensuring connectivity for Washington wildlife through safe passages. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
7. SB 5036 – Strengthening Washington’s leadership and accountability on climate policy by transitioning to annual reporting of statewide emissions data. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
8. SSB 5175 – Concerning the photovoltaic module stewardship and takeback program. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
9. SSB 5433 – Exempting exclusive bargaining representatives for department of corrections employees from certain provisions related to coalition bargaining. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
10. SSB 5356 – Concerning training provided by the criminal justice training commission. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
11. SSB 5298 – Concerning the notice of sale or lease of manufactured/mobile home communities. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
12. SSB 5148 – Ensuring compliance with the housing element requirements of the growth management act. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify

Executive Session

1. SGA 9104 – Tracy Stanley, Member, State Investment Board.
2. SGA 9220 – Drew Shirk, Director, Department of Revenue.
3. SB 5314 – Modifying the capital gains tax.
4. SB 5361 – Delaying the use of the ASAM 4 criteria, treatment criteria for addictive, substance related, and co-occurring conditions.
5. SB 5334 – Adding the department of natural resources’ civil enforcement decisions under RCW 76.04.205 to appeals that may be heard by the pollution control hearings board.
6. SB 5109 – Concerning the mortgage lending fraud prosecution account.
7. SB 5234 – Concerning snowmobile registration fees.
8. SB 5304 – Expanding eligibility for the students experiencing homelessness and foster youth program to an accredited tribal college.

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