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

Public Hearing

1. SHB 1791 – Increasing the flexibility of existing funding sources to fund public safety and other facilities by modifying the local real estate excise tax. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
2. SB 5777 – Creating a business and occupation tax deduction and increasing the rate for persons conducting payment card processing activities. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
3. SHB 1650 – Concerning the addition of airport capital projects as an allowable use of local real estate excise tax revenues. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
4. SB 5787 – Making expenditures from the budget stabilization account for declared catastrophic events. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
5. HB 1389 – Extending the expiration date for reporting requirements on timber purchases. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
6. ESHB 1210 – Concerning targeted urban area tax preferences. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
7. EHB 1106 – Recognizing the tremendous sacrifices made by our military veterans by phasing down the disability rating requirements to ensure more disabled veterans are eligible for property tax relief. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
8. SSB 5400 – Supporting local news journalism. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
9. HB 1109 – Concerning public facilities districts. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
10. ESHB 1258 – Providing funding for municipalities participating in the regional 911 emergency communications system. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
11. SHB 1271 – Permitting early deployment of state fire service resources. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify

Executive Session

1. HB 1060 – Concerning newspapers and eligible digital content.
2. HB 1094 – 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.

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