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 Thu., Apr. 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM in Senate Hearing Room 4, J.A. Cherberg Building in Olympia.

Public Hearing

1. EHB 1279 – Providing postsecondary education consumer protections. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
2. 2SHB 1273 – Improving student access to dual credit programs. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
3. 2SHB 1587 – Encouraging local government partner promise scholarship programs within the opportunity scholarship program. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
4. 2SHB 1183 – Concerning building code and development regulation reform. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
5. SHB 1294 – Extending the pesticide application safety committee. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
6. E2SHB 1686 – Creating a health care entity registry. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
7. 2SHB 1162 – Concerning workplace violence in health care settings. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
8. SHB 1392 – Creating the medicaid access program. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
9. HB 1068 – Removing the exclusion from interest arbitration of Washington management service employees at the department of corrections. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
10. E2SHB 1563 – Establishing a prescribed fire claims fund pilot program. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
11. SHB 1261 – Providing tax relief for certain incidental uses on open space land. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify

Executive Session

1. SB 5195 – Concerning the capital budget.
2. SB 5194 – Concerning state general obligation bonds and related accounts.
3. SB 5804 – Concerning fish habitat restoration.
4. SHB 1309 – Addressing the impacts of burrowing shrimp on bottom culture shellfish farming through integrated pest management research.
5. SHB 1271 – Permitting early deployment of state fire service resources.
6. 2SHB 1788 – Concerning workers’ compensation benefits.
7. HB 1494 – Concerning the property tax exemptions for new and rehabilitated multiple-unit dwellings in urban centers.
8. SHB 1791 – Increasing the flexibility of existing funding sources to fund public safety and other facilities by modifying the local real estate excise tax.
9. SHB 1650 – Concerning the addition of airport capital projects as an allowable use of local real estate excise tax revenues.
10. ESHB 1210 – Concerning targeted urban area tax preferences.
11. HB 1355 – Modifying retail taxes compacts between the state of Washington and federally recognized tribes located in Washington state by increasing the revenue-sharing percentages when a compacting tribe has completed a qualified capital investment.
12. HB 1109 – Concerning public facilities districts.
13. ESHB 1258 – Providing funding for municipalities participating in the regional 911 emergency communications system.

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