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., Feb. 19, 2026 at 4:00 PM in Senate Hearing Room 4, J.A. Cherberg Building in Olympia.

Public Hearing

1. SB 5808 – Funding health insurance premium assistance. (Hearing is on the Proposed Substitute.) (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
2. HB 2254 – Providing flexibility in the partnership access line assessment to cover administrative costs. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
3. HB 2385 – Concerning the medicaid access program. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
4. SSB 6286 – Concerning the state’s ability to fine private detention facilities that deny entry to the department of health for an inspection. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
5. SB 6006 – Exempting food banks from the retail sales tax imposed on certain services. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
6. SB 6351 – Increasing fiscal resources for students and children by providing targeted sales tax exemptions for schools and certain before-and-after school care programs and arts and cultural classes. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
7. ESHB 1717 – Creating a sales and use tax remittance program for affordable housing. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify
8. SB 6198 – Concerning accounts. (Remote Testimony Available). – Testify

Executive Session

1. SB 5949 – Concerning taxes imposed on insurers operating within the state.
2. SB 6129 – Concerning the taxation of cigarettes and other nicotine products.
3. SB 6228 – Removing a tax exemption for the warehousing and reselling of prescription drugs.
4. SB 6231 – Removing a tax exemption for the replacement of equipment for data centers.
5. SB 6229 – Concerning taxation of a long-term capital gain of a section 1202 small business stock.
6. SSB 5965 – Reducing environmental impacts associated with bags provided to customers at retail establishments.
7. SB 6173 – Creating an apple health employer assessment.

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