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 Wed., Feb. 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM in Senate Hearing Room 4, J.A. Cherberg Building in Olympia.

Public Hearing

1. SB 5769 – Addressing transition to kindergarten programs. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
2. SB 5772 – Calculating student enrollment for local effort assistance. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
3. SSB 5155 – Extending a program to streamline the environmental permitting process for salmon recovery projects. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
4. SSB 5171 – Concerning livestock damage due to wolf predation. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
5. SSB 5450 – Increasing transparency regarding sewage-containing spills. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
6. SSB 5322 – Addressing the impacts of burrowing shrimp on bottom culture shellfish farming through integrated pest management research. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
7. SSB 5117 – Protecting agriculture. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
8. SB 5703 – Concerning fair treatment of municipal solid waste systems. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
9. SSB 5396 – Supporting the continued employment of individuals applying for federal aviation administration medical certificates. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
10. SSB 5626 – Creating a wage replacement program for certain Washington workers excluded from unemployment insurance. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
11. SSB 5548 – Concerning workers’ compensation benefits. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
12. SB 5394 – Reducing the developmental disabilities administration’s no-paid services caseload services. (Hearing is on the Proposed Substitute.) (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
13. SSB 5387 – Concerning the corporate practice of health care. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
14. SSB 5335 – Establishing the rural nursing education program. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
15. SB 5762 – Increasing the statewide 988 behavioral health crisis response and suicide prevention line tax. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
16. SSB 5395 – Making improvements to transparency and accountability in the prior authorization determination process. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
17. SSB 5504 – Supporting caregivers who provide complex care services to children with heightened medical needs. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
18. SB 5764 – Repealing the expiration date for the ambulance transport fund. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
19. SB 5392 – Concerning budget stabilization account transfers. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
20. SB 5441 – Concerning accounts. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
21. SB 5708 – Protecting Washington children online. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
22. SSB 5496 – Preserving homeownership options by limiting excessive home buying by certain entities. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
23. SSB 5587 – Concerning affordable housing development in counties not closing the gap between estimated existing housing units within the county and existing housing needs. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
24. SSB 5332 – Concerning mobile dwellings. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
25. SSB 5613 – Concerning the development of clear and objective standards, conditions, and procedures for residential development. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
26. SSB 5686 – Expanding and funding the foreclosure mediation program. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
27. SB 5659 – Eliminating each local government’s proportional share of Washington’s housing shortage. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify

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