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 Mon., Mar. 2, 2026 at 10:30 AM in Senate Hearing Room 4, J.A. Cherberg Building in Olympia.

Executive Session

1. HB 2675 – Concerning accounts.
2. 2SHB 2105 – Concerning immigrant worker protections.
3. E3SHB 1710 – Concerning compliance with the Washington voting rights act of 2018.
4. E2SHB 1170 – Informing users when content is developed or modified by artificial intelligence.
5. 2SHB 1833 – Creating an artificial intelligence grant program.
6. 2SHB 2333 – Protecting elected officials and candidates, executive state officers, election officials, and criminal justice participants against threats and incidents of political violence.
7. HB 2249 – Amending the state civil service statutes to include Washington technology solutions network and security systems employees.
8. HB 2120 – Modifying joint legislative audit and review committee work plans to ensure efficient use of staff resources.
9. E2SHB 2034 – Concerning termination and restatement of plan 1 of the law enforcement officers’ and firefighters’ retirement system.
10. HB 1069 – Allowing collective bargaining over contributions for certain supplemental retirement benefits.
11. EHB 2179 – Concerning membership in the public employees’ retirement system for port workers who participate in a federal railroad retirement plan, a union-sponsored defined benefit retirement plan, or another employer-funded private pension plan. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Concerning membership in the public employees’ retirement system for port workers who participate in a federal railroad retirement plan.)
12. ESHB 2442 – Providing local governments tax resources and fund flexibility.
13. SHB 2089 – Supporting wildfire mitigation by modifying RCW 82.04.29005, concerning taxes on loan interest.
14. HB 1983 – Amending the definition of timberland for purposes of determining the real estate excise tax for a governmental entity.
15. ESHB 1717 – Creating a sales and use tax remittance program for affordable housing.
16. SSB 5932 – Providing certainty for the development of low-to-zero carbon alternative jet fuel production in Washington state.
17. E3SHB 1960 – Encouraging renewable energy in Washington through tax policy and investment in local communities.
18. HB 2431 – Increasing the maximum annual limit for regularly scheduled fundraising activities for the nonprofit public assembly halls and meeting places property tax exemption.
19. SB 6006 – Exempting food banks from the retail sales tax imposed on certain services.
20. E2SHB 2451 – Concerning local tax increment financing.
21. SB 6297 – Making temporary staffing services provided to nonprofit behavioral health entities exempt from retail sales tax.
22. 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.
23. 2SHB 2429 – Supporting children and youth behavioral health.
24. SB 6353 – Modifying the working connections child care program.
25. SHB 2475 – Concerning language accessible public programs, activities, and services conducted, operated, or administered by state agencies.
26. 2SHB 2479 – Concerning the recovery of unpaid wages.
27. HB 2521 – Concerning firearms background check.
28. HB 2091 – Requiring public employers under chapter 41.80 RCW to provide employee information to exclusive bargaining representatives.
29. ESHB 2508 – Clarifying the scope of authority of the office of independent investigations to align with current operations and practices and to include public disclosure requirements and protect privacy.
30. E2SHB 1903 – Establishing a statewide low-income energy assistance program.
31. E2SHB 2215 – Concerning climate commitment act compliance obligations for fuels supplied or otherwise sold into Washington.
32. ESHB 2238 – Concerning statewide food security.
33. HB 2104 – Concerning aviation assurance funding in response to wildland fires.
34. E2SHB 2416 – Concerning fair treatment of waste to energy facilities under the climate commitment act.
35. E2SHB 2515 – Addressing emerging large energy use facilities.
36. SB 6355 – Concerning the electric transmission system.
37. 2SHB 1906 – Increasing transparency and consumer protection in water system rates.
38. ESHB 2168 – Facilitating the rapid sharing of overdose mapping information for overdose prevention.
39. HB 2254 – Providing flexibility in the partnership access line assessment to cover administrative costs.
40. HB 2385 – Concerning the medicaid access program.
41. SB 5808 – Funding health insurance premium assistance.
42. HB 1796 – Concerning school districts’ authority to contract indebtedness for school construction.
43. E2SHB 1974 – Establishing land banking authorities.
44. SHB 2140 – Exempting land classified under current use that is sold or transferred to a governmental entity from additional tax in certain circumstances.
45. SHB 2714 – Concerning caseload forecasting for food assistance programs.
46. SHB 2650 – Concerning notifications and effective dates for department of revenue administration of certain excise taxes.
47. 2ESHB 1210 – Concerning targeted urban area tax preferences.
48. 2SHB 2590 – Exempting limited equity cooperatives from the Washington uniform common interest ownership act.
49. ESHB 1408 – Establishing funding for community preservation and development authorities approved through RCW 43.167.060.
50. HB 1376 – Concerning the prepayment of capital gains taxes six months prior to the due date.
51. SHB 2594 – Ensuring that unhoused children and youths in Washington have equal access to free, appropriate public education.
52. SB 6260 – Implementing efficiencies and programming changes in public education.
53. SHB 1570 – Concerning collective bargaining for certain employees who are enrolled in academic programs at public institutions of higher education.
54. SHB 2152 – Permitting the medical use of cannabis by qualifying patients in specified health care facilities.
55. E2SHB 2325 – Establishing a tourism self-supported assessment program to fund statewide tourism promotion.
56. E2SHB 2523 – Concerning the community reinvestment program.
57. E2SHB 2636 – Requiring reviews of the performance, operations, and funding of the state’s public education system.
58. HB 2353 – Concerning predesign thresholds.

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