Senate Legislative Meeting Schedule for the Week of 3/31

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Senate Legislative Meeting Schedule for the Week of 3/31

Time	Committee	Location
Monday, March 31, 2025
10:30 AM	HOUSE SESSION/CAUCUS
	Labor & Commerce (S)	Senate Hearing Rm 1 and Virtual
12:30 PM	PRO FORMA SENATE SESSION/CAUCUS
1:30 PM	Agriculture & Natural Resources (S)	Senate Hearing Rm 1 and Virtual
	Human Services (S)	Senate Hearing Rm 4 and Virtual
	Local Government (S)	Senate Hearing Rm 3 and Virtual
4:00 PM	HOUSE SESSION/CAUCUS
	Transportation (S)	Senate Hearing Rm 1 and Virtual
	Ways & Means (S)	Senate Hearing Rm 4 and Virtual
6:00 PM	HOUSE POSSIBLE SESSION/CAUCUS
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Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Time	Committee	Location
8:00 AM	Early Learning & K-12 Education (S)	Senate Hearing Rm 1 and Virtual
9:00 AM	Law & Justice (S)	Senate Hearing Rm 4 and Virtual
9:55 AM	PRO FORMA HOUSE SESSION
10:30 AM	Health & Long-Term Care (S)	Senate Hearing Rm 4 and Virtual
	Labor & Commerce (S)	Senate Hearing Rm 1 and Virtual
12:30 PM	PRO FORMA SENATE SESSION
1:30 PM	Environment, Energy & Technology (S)	Senate Hearing Rm 1 and Virtual
	Human Services (S)	Senate Hearing Rm 4 and Virtual
	State Government, Tribal Affairs & Elections (S)	Senate Hearing Rm 2 and Virtual
4:00 PM	Transportation (S)	Senate Hearing Rm 1 and Virtual
	Ways & Means (S)	Senate Hearing Rm 4 and Virtual
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Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Time	Committee	Location
8:00 AM	Environment, Energy & Technology (S)	Senate Hearing Rm 1 and Virtual
	Human Services (S)	Senate Hearing Rm 4 and Virtual
10:30 AM	HOUSE SESSION/CAUCUS
	Housing (S)	Senate Hearing Rm 4 and Virtual
12:30 PM	HOUSE POSSIBLE SESSION/CAUCUS
	SENATE SESSION/CAUCUS
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Thursday, April 3, 2025
Time	Committee	Location
9:55 AM	PRO FORMA HOUSE SESSION
10:00 AM	SENATE SESSION/CAUCUS
1:30 PM	Transportation (S)	Senate Hearing Rm 1 and Virtual
	Ways & Means (S)	Senate Hearing Rm 4 and Virtual
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Friday, April 4, 2025
Time	Committee	Location
9:30 AM	SENATE SESSION/CAUCUS
9:55 AM	PRO FORMA HOUSE SESSION
1:30 PM	Transportation (S)	Senate Hearing Rm 1 and Virtual
	Ways & Means (S)	Senate Hearing Rm 4 and Virtual
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Saturday, April 5, 2025
Time	Committee	Location
9:30 AM	SENATE SESSION/CAUCUS
12:00 PM	Ways & Means (S)	Senate Hearing Rm 4 and Virtual
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Agriculture & Natural Resources 3/31/2025 1:30 PM Senate Full Committee Senate Hearing Rm 1 and Virtual J.A. Cherberg Olympia, WA
Work Session: Agriculture and natural resources issue update. Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. 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

Early Learning & K-12 Education 4/1/2025 8:00 AM Senate Full Committee Senate Hearing Rm 1 and Virtual J.A. Cherberg Olympia, WA
Executive Session: Bills to be determined. Possible other business. 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

Environment, Energy & Technology
4/1/2025 1:30 PM
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 1 and Virtual
J.A. Cherberg
Olympia, WA

Executive Session:

1. E2SHB 1912 - Concerning the exemption for fuels used for agricultural purposes in the climate commitment act.

2. SHB 1833 - Creating an artificial intelligence grant program.

3. 2SHB 1503 - Furthering digital equity and opportunity in Washington state.

4. 2SHB 1514 - Encouraging the deployment of low carbon thermal energy networks.

5. 2SHB 1715 - Regarding the costs of compliance with the state energy performance standard.

6. SHB 1857 - Concerning asbestos-containing building materials.

7. ESHB 1483 - Supporting the servicing and right to repair of certain products with digital electronics in a secure and reliable manner to increase access and affordability for Washingtonians.

8. SGA 9225 - Brian Rybarik, Chair, Utilities and Transportation Commission.

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

Environment, Energy & Technology 4/2/2025 8:00 AM Senate Full Committee Senate Hearing Rm 1 and Virtual J.A. Cherberg Olympia, WA
Work Session: Securing systems and safeguarding data. 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

Health & Long-Term Care 4/1/2025 10:30 AM Senate Full Committee Senate Hearing Rm 4 and Virtual J.A. Cherberg Building Olympia, WA
Executive Session: Bills to be determined. 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

Housing 4/2/2025 10:30 AM Senate Full Committee Senate Hearing Rm 4 and Virtual J.A. Cherberg Building Olympia, WA
Work Session: Creative housing solutions. 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

Human Services
3/31/2025 1:30 PM
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 4 and Virtual
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA

Executive Session:

1. SHB 1171 - Exempting attorney higher education employees from certain mandated reporting of child abuse and neglect.

2. E2SHB 1232 - Concerning private detention facilities.

3. ESHB 1233 - Concerning work programs for incarcerated persons.

4. SHB 1390 - Repealing the community protection program.

5. SHB 1509 - Concerning family reconciliation services.

Possible other business. 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

Human Services 4/1/2025 1:30 PM Senate Full Committee Senate Hearing Rm 4 and Virtual J.A. Cherberg Building Olympia, WA
Executive Session: Bill to be determined. Possible other business. 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

Human Services 4/2/2025 8:00 AM Senate Full Committee Senate Hearing Rm 4 and Virtual J.A. Cherberg Building Olympia, WA
Executive Session: Bills to be determined. Possible other business. 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

Labor & Commerce
3/31/2025 10:30 AM
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 1 and Virtual
J.A. Cherberg
Olympia, WA

Public Hearing:

1. HB 1698 - Updating liquor permit and licensing provisions. (Remote Testimony Available).

2. HB 1347 - Concerning cannabis testing laboratories. (Remote Testimony Available).

3. HB 1636 - Eliminating the per transaction limit for wine and spirit sales. (Remote Testimony Available).

Executive Session:

1. SHB 1066 - Creating a data dashboard to track use of regulated substances.

2. ESHB 1141 - Concerning collective bargaining for agricultural cannabis workers.

3. EHB 1602 - Addressing food service options for liquor licensees.

4. 2SHB 1515 - Modernizing the regulation of alcohol service in public spaces.

5. ESHB 1332 - Concerning transportation network companies.

6. HB 1722 - Reviewing state restrictions affecting students participating in secondary career and technical education programs and other state-approved career pathways.

Labor & Commerce
4/1/2025 10:30 AM
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 1 and Virtual
J.A. Cherberg
Olympia, WA

Executive Session:

1. ESHB 1533 - Allowing a specialty electrician to continue working under a valid specialty certificate of competency while enrolled in a journey level apprenticeship program.

2. ESHB 1622 - Allowing bargaining over matters related to the use of artificial intelligence.

3. ESHB 1551 - Extending the cannabis social equity program.

4. HB 1698 - Updating liquor permit and licensing provisions.

5. HB 1347 - Concerning cannabis testing laboratories.

6. HB 1636 - Eliminating the per transaction limit for wine and spirit sales.

Law & Justice
4/1/2025 9:00 AM
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 4 and Virtual
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA

Executive Session:

1. SHB 1460 - Concerning protection order hope cards.

2. EHB 1014 - Implementing recommendations of the 2023 child support schedule work group.

3. E2SHB 1218 - Concerning persons referred for competency evaluation and restoration services.

Local Government 3/31/2025 1:30 PM Senate Full Committee Senate Hearing Rm 3 and Virtual J.A. Cherberg Building Olympia, WA
Executive Session: Bills to be determined. 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

State Government, Tribal Affairs & Elections 4/1/2025 1:30 PM Senate Full Committee Senate Hearing Rm 2 and Virtual J.A. Cherberg Olympia, WA
Executive Session: Bills to be determined. Possible other business. 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

Transportation
3/31/2025 4:00 PM
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 1 and Virtual
J.A. Cherberg
Olympia, WA

Public Hearing:

1. SGA 9197 - Severin E Knutsen, Member, Board of Pilotage Commissioners.

2. SGA 9226 - Timothy J Farrell, Member, Board of Pilotage Commissioners.

3. ESHB 1596 - Concerning accountability for persons for speeding. (Remote Testimony Available).

4. ESHB 1423 - Authorizing the use of automated vehicle noise enforcement cameras in vehicle-racing camera enforcement zones. (Remote Testimony Available).

5. HB 1537 - Expanding access to funding from the multiuse roadway safety account for eligible cities and for the Washington state departments of natural resources and fish and wildlife for maintenance and guidance of motorized recreation on green dot roads. (Remote Testimony Available).

6. SHB 1244 - Concerning training as an alternative to driver license suspension for the accumulation of certain traffic infractions. (Remote Testimony Available).

Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. 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

Transportation
4/1/2025 4:00 PM
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 1 and Virtual
J.A. Cherberg
Olympia, WA

Public Hearing:

1. ESHB 1837 - Establishing intercity passenger rail improvement priorities. (Remote Testimony Available).

2. ESHB 1902 - Convening a work group regarding the streamlining of permitting for transportation projects. (Remote Testimony Available).

3. SHB 1061 - Providing additional parking flexibility in residential neighborhoods. (Remote Testimony Available).

4. HB 1970 - Concerning state highway construction project alternative contracting procedures. (Remote Testimony Available).

5. SHB 1774 - Modifying allowable terms for the lease of unused highway land. (Remote Testimony Available).

Transportation 4/3/2025 1:30 PM Senate Full Committee Senate Hearing Rm 1 and Virtual J.A. Cherberg Olympia, WA
Public Hearing: To be determined. Executive Session: To be determined. Meeting is scheduled to end at 6:00 p.m. 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

Transportation
4/4/2025 1:30 PM
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 1 and Virtual
J.A. Cherberg
Olympia, WA

Public Hearing: To be determined.

Meeting is scheduled to end at 6:00 p.m. Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. 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

Ways & Means
3/31/2025 4:00 PM
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 4 and Virtual
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA

Public Hearing:

1. SB 5797 - Enacting a tax on stocks, bonds, and other financial intangible assets for the benefit of public schools. (Remote Testimony Available).

2. SB 5796 - Enacting an excise tax on large employers on the amount of payroll expenses above the social security wage threshold to fund programs and services to benefit Washingtonians. (Remote Testimony Available).

3. SB 5798 - Concerning property tax reform. (Remote Testimony Available).

4. SB 5794 - Adopting recommendations from the tax preference performance review process, eliminating obsolete tax preferences, clarifying legislative intent, and addressing changes in constitutional law. (Remote Testimony Available).

5. SB 5795 - Reducing the state sales and use tax rate. (Remote Testimony Available).

Ways & Means
4/1/2025 4:00 PM
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 4 and Virtual
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA

Public Hearing:

1. SB 5195 - Concerning the capital budget. (Hearing is on the Proposed Substitute.)

PSSB 5195: Housing, behavioral health, and human services. (Remote Testimony Available).
PSSB 5195: Natural resources. (Remote Testimony Available).
PSSB 5195: K-12 public schools. (Remote Testimony Available).
PSSB 5195: Higher education. (Remote Testimony Available).
PSSB 5195: All other. (Remote Testimony Available).

2. SB 5194 - Concerning state general obligation bonds and related accounts. (Hearing is on the Proposed Substitute.) (Remote Testimony Available).

PSSB 5195 and PSSB 5194 by Senators Trudeau and Schoesler will be available at 3:00 p.m. on Monday, March 31, 2025, on fiscal.wa.gov. Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. 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

Ways & Means
4/3/2025 1:30 PM
Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 4 and Virtual
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA

Public Hearing:

1. EHB 1279 - Providing postsecondary education consumer protections. (Remote Testimony Available).

2. 2SHB 1273 - Improving student access to dual credit programs. (Remote Testimony Available).

3. 2SHB 1587 - Encouraging local government partner promise scholarship programs within the opportunity scholarship program. (Remote Testimony Available).

4. 2SHB 1183 - Concerning building code and development regulation reform. (Remote Testimony Available).

5. SHB 1294 - Extending the pesticide application safety committee. (Remote Testimony Available).

6. E2SHB 1686 - Creating a health care entity registry. (Remote Testimony Available).

7. 2SHB 1162 - Concerning workplace violence in health care settings. (Remote Testimony Available).

8. SHB 1392 - Creating the medicaid access program. (Remote Testimony Available).

9. HB 1068 - Removing the exclusion from interest arbitration of Washington management service employees at the department of corrections. (Remote Testimony Available).

10. E2SHB 1563 - Establishing a prescribed fire claims fund pilot program. (Remote Testimony Available).

11. SHB 1261 - Providing tax relief for certain incidental uses on open space land. (Remote Testimony Available).

Executive Session:

1. SB 5195 - Concerning the capital budget.

2. SB 5194 - Concerning state general obligation bonds and related accounts.

3. SHB 1309 - Addressing the impacts of burrowing shrimp on bottom culture shellfish farming through integrated pest management research.

4. SHB 1271 - Permitting early deployment of state fire service resources.

5. 2SHB 1788 - Concerning workers' compensation benefits.

6. HB 1494 - Concerning the property tax exemptions for new and rehabilitated multiple-unit dwellings in urban centers.

7. SHB 1791 - Increasing the flexibility of existing funding sources to fund public safety and other facilities by modifying the local real estate excise tax.

8. SHB 1650 - Concerning the addition of airport capital projects as an allowable use of local real estate excise tax revenues.

9. ESHB 1210 - Concerning targeted urban area tax preferences.

10. 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.

11. HB 1109 - Concerning public facilities districts.

12. ESHB 1258 - Providing funding for municipalities participating in the regional 911 emergency communications system.

Ways & Means 4/4/2025 1:30 PM Senate Full Committee Senate Hearing Rm 4 and Virtual J.A. Cherberg Building Olympia, WA
Public Hearing: Bills to be determined. Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. 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

Ways & Means 4/5/2025 12:00 PM Senate Full Committee Senate Hearing Rm 4 and Virtual J.A. Cherberg Building Olympia, WA
Public Hearing: Bills to be determined. Possible executive session on bills heard in committee. 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

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