Agenda Update; Senate Ways & Means

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Added to Public Hearing: SB 6355, E2SHB 2215, SHB 2152, 2SHB 2105, and ESHB 2168.
Added to Executive Session: ESHB 2471 and HB 2338.
Ways & Means - 2/26/2026 1:30 PM

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

REVISED ON 2/23/2026 AT 4:28 PM

Public Hearing:
1.   E2SHB 2034 - Concerning termination and restatement of plan 1 of the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system. (Remote Testimony Available).
2.   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.) (Remote Testimony Available).
3.   2ESHB 1210 - Concerning targeted urban area tax preferences. (Remote Testimony Available).
4.   ESHB 1408 - Establishing funding for community preservation and development authorities approved through RCW 43.167.060. (Remote Testimony Available).
5.   E2SHB 1974 - Establishing land banking authorities. (Remote Testimony Available).
6.   SHB 2650 - Concerning notifications and effective dates for department of revenue administration of certain excise taxes. (Remote Testimony Available).
7.   ESHB 2442 - Providing local governments tax resources and fund flexibility. (Remote Testimony Available).
8.   E2SHB 2523 - Concerning the community reinvestment program. (Remote Testimony Available).
9.   SB 6355 - Concerning the electric transmission system. (Remote Testimony Available). (If measure is referred to committee.)
10.   E2SHB 2215 - Concerning climate commitment act compliance obligations for fuels supplied or otherwise sold into Washington. (Remote Testimony Available).
11.   SHB 2152 - Permitting the medical use of cannabis by qualifying patients in specified health care facilities. (Remote Testimony Available).
12.   2SHB 2105 - Concerning immigrant worker protections. (Remote Testimony Available).
13.   ESHB 2168 - Facilitating the rapid sharing of overdose mapping information for overdose prevention. (Remote Testimony Available).

Executive Session:
1.   SB 6003 - Concerning the capital budget.
2.   HB 2441 - Concerning medical insurance premium reimbursements for surviving spouses of line of duty deaths.
3.   HB 2124 - Concerning the threshold for payment of a lump sum retirement allowance in lieu of a monthly benefit.
4.   ESHB 2471 - Concerning collective bargaining for employees not covered by the national labor relations act.
5.   SHB 2133 - Making the property tax exemption for multipurpose senior citizen centers permanent.
6.   HB 2610 - Ensuring nonprofit housing providers qualify for a property tax exemption when the property is temporarily used for certain community purposes other than affordable housing.
7.   HB 2338 - Authorizing community scaled weatherization projects.
8.   E2SHB 2251 - Concerning climate commitment act accounts.


Possible other business.

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