Committee Schedules
Senate Ways & Means - 2/9/2026 10:30 AM
Location
Senate Hearing Rm 4 and Virtual
J.A. Cherberg Building
Olympia, WA
REVISED 2/7/2026 5:57 PM
Executive Session
- SGA 9306 - Kristen L Fraser, Member, Board of Tax Appeals.
- SB 6147 - Concerning notice requirements for grocery establishment closures.
- SSB 6035 - Ensuring access to voting services for military, overseas, Native American, and disabled voters.
- SSB 6239 - Requiring arbitration for tort claims against the state of Washington and its subdivisions.
- SSB 6017 - Supporting crime victims and witnesses by promoting victim-centered, trauma-informed responses.
- SB 6082 - Safeguarding student financial aid from fraud.
- SSB 6045 - Placing agricultural employees under the jurisdiction of the public employment relations commission for the purpose of collective bargaining.
- SSB 6117 - Concerning collective bargaining for employees not covered by the national labor relations act.
- SB 5862 - Providing a cost-of-living adjustment for plan 1 retirees of the teachers' retirement system and public employees' retirement system.
- SSB 5379 - Granting interest arbitration to certain parks and recreation commission employees.
- SSB 5847 - Concerning access to medical care in workers' compensation.
- SSB 5043 - Concerning industrial insurance coverage for posttraumatic stress disorders affecting correctional facility workers.
- SB 5882 - Concerning industrial insurance coverage for posttraumatic stress disorders affecting local correctional facility workers.
- SB 6323 - Concerning medical insurance premium reimbursements for surviving spouses of line of duty deaths.
- SSB 5974 - Modernizing and strengthening laws concerning sheriffs, police chiefs, town marshals, law enforcement agency volunteers, youth cadets, specially commissioned officers, and police matrons.
- SSB 5827 - Concerning the definition of a "qualifying discharge" for the Washington state veterans' preference program for civil service.
- SSB 5895 - Providing an alternative condition for extraordinary medical placement for incarcerated individuals.
- SB 6346 - Establishing a tax on millionaires.
- SSB 6037 - Concerning fire protection districts.
- SB 6162 - Concerning property tax reform.
- SB 6256 - Concerning tax exemptions for unoccupied property used for affordable housing that is owned by a nonprofit entity.
- 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.
- SB 5650 - Authorizing a local excise tax on cannabis.
- SB 6343 - Providing tax relief to Washington residents impacted by the atmospheric river and winter weather event.
- SSB 6027 - Modifying certain funding and exemptions related to providing and maintaining affordable housing and related services.
- SB 6113 - Concerning taxes administered by the department of revenue.
- SB 6211 - Creating uniformity for the process by which cities planning under the growth management act implement real estate excise taxes.
- SB 6114 - Defining the terms "fixture" and "affixed" for excise tax purposes.
- SB 5898 - Directing the deposit of the proceeds from taxes on aircraft fuel to the aeronautics account.
- SB 6347 - Undoing the recent changes to the estate tax.
- 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.
- SSB 6308 - Authorizing the court to order certain conditions during child welfare shelter care hearings.
- SSB 6319 - Concerning certain child welfare cases for children under the age of four.
- SB 5868 - Adding an additional superior court judge in Skagit county and in Yakima county.
- 2SSB 5292 - Concerning paid family and medical leave rates.
- SSB 5911 - Strengthening the financial stability of persons in the care of the department of children, youth, and families.
- SSB 5968 - Improving regulatory efficiency by integrating executive order 25-03, concerning permitting and licensing processes, into chapter 43.42A RCW.
- SB 5762 - Increasing the statewide 988 behavioral health crisis response and suicide prevention line tax.
- SSB 5933 - Facilitating the rapid sharing of overdose mapping information for overdose prevention.
- 2SSB 5387 - Concerning the corporate practice of health care.
- SB 5988 - Establishing fee authority for accreditation services provided to opioid treatment programs by the department of health.
- SSB 6182 - Establishing an abortion savings program.
- 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.
- 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.
- SSB 6079 - Reducing nonrenewal and cancellations of insurance policies due to wildfire risk.
- SSB 5971 - Establishing a green fertilizer incentive program to support the production and adoption of low-carbon nitrogen fertilizer in Washington state.
- SSB 5965 - Reducing environmental impacts associated with bags provided to customers at retail establishments.
- SB 6246 - Concerning emissions from emissions-intensive, trade-exposed facilities under the climate commitment act.
- SSB 5975 - Providing consumer access to safe cookware and interstate and international trade certainty in the regulation of lead in cookware.
- 2SSB 5466 - Improving reliability and capacity of the electric transmission system in Washington state.
- SSB 5609 - Regarding cultural resource protection for certain land use activities that are categorically exempt from the state environmental policy act.
- SSB 5901 - Providing school construction assistance program facilities support for on-base schools.
- SB 6223 - Authorizing community scaled weatherization projects.
- SSB 6018 - Concerning the housing finance commission.
- SSB 6070 - Supporting the recovery of missing persons.
- SSB 5880 - Concerning toxicology testing by certified or accredited laboratories.
- SSB 6247 - Concerning school district financial management.
- SSB 6026 - Concerning residential development in commercial and mixed-use zones.
- SSB 6015 - Concerning permit-ready residential building plans.
- SSB 6309 - Providing for enhanced municipal permitting tools for high capacity transit projects.
- SSB 6289 - Creating a statewide economic development and competitiveness strategic plan.
- SSB 5961 - Transferring early literacy programs from the department of children, youth, and families to the office of the superintendent of public instruction.
- SB 6052 - Establishing a statewide digital transcript data-sharing environment.
- SSB 5969 - Reducing duplication between high school and beyond plans and individualized education program transition plans.
- SSB 5906 - Establishing data and personal safety protections within areas of public accommodation for all Washington residents.
- 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.
- SB 5954 - Concerning veteran survivor tuition waiver eligibility.
- SB 5963 - Modifying funding for the passport to careers program and eligibility for the Washington college grant.
- SB 5909 - Reviewing and discontinuing low-enrollment undergraduate programs at public baccalaureate institutions.
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