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Removed from Executive Session: SSB 6062 - Modifying provisions related to individuals found to have committed criminal offenses when under the age of 18.
Ways & Means - 2/9/2026 10:30 AM

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

REVISED ON 2/7/2026 AT 5:57 PM

Executive Session:
1.   SGA 9306 - Kristen L Fraser, Member, Board of Tax Appeals.
2.   SB 6147 - Concerning notice requirements for grocery establishment closures.
3.   SSB 6035 - Ensuring access to voting services for military, overseas, Native American, and disabled voters.
4.   SSB 6239 - Requiring arbitration for tort claims against the state of Washington and its subdivisions.
5.   SSB 6017 - Supporting crime victims and witnesses by promoting victim-centered, trauma-informed responses.
6.   SB 6082 - Safeguarding student financial aid from fraud.
7.   SSB 6045 - Placing agricultural employees under the jurisdiction of the public employment relations commission for the purpose of collective bargaining.
8.   SSB 6117 - Concerning collective bargaining for employees not covered by the national labor relations act.
9.   SB 5862 - Providing a cost-of-living adjustment for plan 1 retirees of the teachers' retirement system and public employees' retirement system.
10.   SSB 5379 - Granting interest arbitration to certain parks and recreation commission employees.
11.   SSB 5847 - Concerning access to medical care in workers' compensation.
12.   SSB 5043 - Concerning industrial insurance coverage for posttraumatic stress disorders affecting correctional facility workers.
13.   SB 5882 - Concerning industrial insurance coverage for posttraumatic stress disorders affecting local correctional facility workers.
14.   SB 6323 - Concerning medical insurance premium reimbursements for surviving spouses of line of duty deaths.
15.   SSB 5974 - Modernizing and strengthening laws concerning sheriffs, police chiefs, town marshals, law enforcement agency volunteers, youth cadets, specially commissioned officers, and police matrons.
16.   SSB 5827 - Concerning the definition of a "qualifying discharge" for the Washington state veterans' preference program for civil service.
17.   SSB 5895 - Providing an alternative condition for extraordinary medical placement for incarcerated individuals.
18.   SB 6346 - Establishing a tax on millionaires.
19.   SSB 6037 - Concerning fire protection districts.
20.   SB 6162 - Concerning property tax reform.
21.   SB 6256 - Concerning tax exemptions for unoccupied property used for affordable housing that is owned by a nonprofit entity.
22.   SB 6220 - Ensuring nonprofit housing providers qualify for a property tax exemption when the property is temporarily used for certain community purposes other than affordable housing.
23.   SB 5650 - Authorizing a local excise tax on cannabis.
24.   SB 6343 - Providing tax relief to Washington residents impacted by the atmospheric river and winter weather event.
25.   SSB 6027 - Modifying certain funding and exemptions related to providing and maintaining affordable housing and related services.
26.   SB 6113 - Concerning taxes administered by the department of revenue.
27.   SB 6211 - Creating uniformity for the process by which cities planning under the growth management act implement real estate excise taxes.
28.   SB 6114 - Defining the terms "fixture" and "affixed" for excise tax purposes.
29.   SB 5898 - Directing the deposit of the proceeds from taxes on aircraft fuel to the aeronautics account.
30.   SB 6347 - Undoing the recent changes to the estate tax.
31.   SB 6244 - Extending an existing hazardous substance tax exemption for certain agricultural crop protection products that are temporarily warehoused but not otherwise used, manufactured, packaged, or sold in the state of Washington.
32.   SSB 6308 - Authorizing the court to order certain conditions during child welfare shelter care hearings.
33.   SSB 6319 - Concerning certain child welfare cases for children under the age of four.
34.   SB 5868 - Adding an additional superior court judge in Skagit county and in Yakima county.
35.   2SSB 5292 - Concerning paid family and medical leave rates.
36.   SSB 5911 - Strengthening the financial stability of persons in the care of the department of children, youth, and families.
37.   SSB 5968 - Improving regulatory efficiency by integrating executive order 25-03, concerning permitting and licensing processes, into chapter 43.42A RCW.
38.   SB 5762 - Increasing the statewide 988 behavioral health crisis response and suicide prevention line tax.
39.   SSB 5933 - Facilitating the rapid sharing of overdose mapping information for overdose prevention.
40.   2SSB 5387 - Concerning the corporate practice of health care.
41.   SB 5988 - Establishing fee authority for accreditation services provided to opioid treatment programs by the department of health.
42.   SSB 6182 - Establishing an abortion savings program.
43.   SB 6194 - Allowing payments to be made based on allowable costs for services provided by any rural hospital that is located on a federally recognized Indian reservation.
44.   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.
45.   SSB 6079 - Reducing nonrenewal and cancellations of insurance policies due to wildfire risk.
46.   SSB 5971 - Establishing a green fertilizer incentive program to support the production and adoption of low-carbon nitrogen fertilizer in Washington state.
47.   SSB 5965 - Reducing environmental impacts associated with bags provided to customers at retail establishments.
48.   SB 6246 - Concerning emissions from emissions-intensive, trade-exposed facilities under the climate commitment act.
49.   SSB 5975 - Providing consumer access to safe cookware and interstate and international trade certainty in the regulation of lead in cookware.
50.   2SSB 5466 - Improving reliability and capacity of the electric transmission system in Washington state.
51.   SSB 5609 - Regarding cultural resource protection for certain land use activities that are categorically exempt from the state environmental policy act.
52.   SSB 5901 - Providing school construction assistance program facilities support for on-base schools.
53.   SB 6223 - Authorizing community scaled weatherization projects.
54.   SSB 6018 - Concerning the housing finance commission.
55.   SSB 6070 - Supporting the recovery of missing persons.
56.   SSB 5880 - Concerning toxicology testing by certified or accredited laboratories.
57.   SSB 6247 - Concerning school district financial management.
58.   SSB 6026 - Concerning residential development in commercial and mixed-use zones.
59.   SSB 6015 - Concerning permit-ready residential building plans.
60.   SSB 6309 - Providing for enhanced municipal permitting tools for high capacity transit projects.
61.   SSB 6289 - Creating a statewide economic development and competitiveness strategic plan.
62.   SSB 5961 - Transferring early literacy programs from the department of children, youth, and families to the office of the superintendent of public instruction.
63.   SB 6052 - Establishing a statewide digital transcript data-sharing environment.
64.   SSB 5969 - Reducing duplication between high school and beyond plans and individualized education program transition plans.
65.   SSB 5906 - Establishing data and personal safety protections within areas of public accommodation for all Washington residents.
66.   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.
67.   SB 5954 - Concerning veteran survivor tuition waiver eligibility.
68.   SB 5963 - Modifying funding for the passport to careers program and eligibility for the Washington college grant.
69.   SB 5909 - Reviewing and discontinuing low-enrollment undergraduate programs at public baccalaureate institutions.


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