Agenda Update; Senate Ways & Means

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Added to Public Hearing: SB 6211, SB 5650, SB 6033, SB 6297, SB 6343, SSB 5847, SSB 5853, SB 6067, SB 5862, SSB 6117, SSB 6045, SSB 6309, SB 5828, SSB 5906, SSB 5968, SSB 5911, SSB 5965, SSB 5971, SSB 6017, SSB 6239, and SSB 6035.
Added to Public Hearing: Hearing is on the Proposed Substitutes for (SSB 5176, and 2SSB 5387).

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 2/3/2026 AT 5:04 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. SB 6211 - Creating uniformity for the process by which cities planning under the growth management act implement real estate excise taxes. (Remote Testimony Available).

4. SB 5650 - Authorizing a local excise tax on cannabis. (Remote Testimony Available).

5. SB 6033 - Providing a limited waiver of interest and penalties for taxpayers inadvertently failing to collect and remit sales and use taxes on select services. (Remote Testimony Available).

6. SB 6297 - Making temporary staffing services provided to nonprofit behavioral health entities exempt from retail sales tax. (Remote Testimony Available).

7. SB 6343 - Providing tax relief to Washington residents impacted by the atmospheric river and winter weather event. (Remote Testimony Available).

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

9. SSB 5847 - Concerning access to medical care in workers' compensation. (Remote Testimony Available).

10. SSB 5853 - Protecting elected officials from political violence by creating the statewide emergency public official notification system. (Remote Testimony Available).

11. SB 6067 - Concerning workers' compensation benefits. (Remote Testimony Available).

12. 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).

13. 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).

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

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

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

17. SB 5862 - Providing a cost-of-living adjustment for plan 1 retirees of the teachers' retirement system and public employees' retirement system. (Remote Testimony Available).

18. SSB 6117 - Concerning collective bargaining for employees not covered by the national labor relations act. (Remote Testimony Available).

19. SSB 6045 - Placing agricultural employees under the jurisdiction of the public employment relations commission for the purpose of collective bargaining. (Remote Testimony Available).

20. SSB 5176 - Implementing prompt pay recommendations from the capital projects advisory review board. (Hearing is on the Proposed Substitute.) (Remote Testimony Available).

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

22. 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).

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

24. SSB 6309 - Providing for enhanced municipal permitting tools for high capacity transit projects. (Remote Testimony Available).

25. SB 5828 - Concerning the Washington college grant and college bound scholarship program for students attending private four-year not-for-profit institutions of higher education in Washington. (Remote Testimony Available).

26. SSB 5906 - Establishing data and personal safety protections within areas of public accommodation for all Washington residents. (Remote Testimony Available).

27. 2SSB 5387 - Concerning the corporate practice of health care. (Hearing is on the Proposed Substitute.) (Remote Testimony Available).

28. SSB 5968 - Improving regulatory efficiency by integrating executive order 25-03, concerning permitting and licensing processes, into chapter 43.42A RCW. (Remote Testimony Available).

29. SSB 5911 - Strengthening the financial stability of persons in the care of the department of children, youth, and families. (Remote Testimony Available).

30. SSB 5965 - Reducing environmental impacts associated with bags provided to customers at retail establishments. (Remote Testimony Available).

31. SSB 5971 - Establishing a green fertilizer incentive program to support the production and adoption of low-carbon nitrogen fertilizer in Washington state. (Remote Testimony Available).

32. SSB 6017 - Supporting crime victims and witnesses by promoting victim-centered, trauma-informed responses. (Remote Testimony Available).

33. SSB 6239 - Requiring arbitration for tort claims against the state of Washington and its subdivisions. (Remote Testimony Available).

34. SSB 6035 - Ensuring access to voting services for military, overseas, Native American, and disabled voters. (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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