Agenda Update; Senate Ways & Means

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Removed from Public Hearing: SB 6328 - Concerning the cannabis excise tax. (Remote Testimony Available).

Ways & Means - 2/5/2026 1:30 PM

Senate Full Committee
Senate Hearing Rm 4 and Virtual
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA

REVISED ON 2/2/2026 AT 4:14 PM

Public Hearing:

1. SB 6294 - Providing local governments tax resources and fund flexibility. (Remote Testimony Available).

2. SSB 5400 - Supporting local news journalism. (Hearing is on the Proposed Substitute.) (Remote Testimony Available).

3. SSB 6070 - Supporting the recovery of missing persons. (Remote Testimony Available).

4. SSB 5974 - Modernizing and strengthening laws concerning sheriffs, police chiefs, town marshals, law enforcement agency volunteers, youth cadets, specially commissioned officers, and police matrons. (Remote Testimony Available).

5. SSB 5981 - Protecting patient access to discounted medications and health care services through Washington's health care safety net by preventing manufacturer limitations on the 340B drug pricing program. (Remote Testimony Available).

6. SB 6082 - Safeguarding student financial aid from fraud. (Remote Testimony Available).

7. SB 6323 - Concerning medical insurance premium reimbursements for surviving spouses of line of duty deaths. (Remote Testimony Available).

8. SB 6324 - Including standby pay as basic salary in the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system plan 2. (Remote Testimony Available).

9. SSB 5176 - Implementing prompt pay recommendations from the capital projects advisory review board. (Remote Testimony Available).

10. SSB 5901 - Providing school construction assistance program facilities support for on-base schools. (Remote Testimony Available).

11. SSB 5681 - Concerning the age at which clients of the home and community living administration may receive employment and community inclusion services. (Remote Testimony Available).

12. SSB 6026 - Concerning residential development in commercial and mixed-use zones. (Remote Testimony Available).

Executive Session:

1. SB 5923 - Concerning critical access hospital designations in Skagit county.

2. SB 6151 - Concerning dedicated accounts for fees collected for the implementation of environmental programs.

Possible other business.

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