Stephanie McClintock — Representative Stephanie McClintock is repeatedly called during roll call and subsequent votes throughout this portion of the meeting.
Ed Orcutt — Ed Orcutt is repeatedly referenced during the committee’s opening organizational proceedings: he is called during roll call and answers present, is involved in the nomination and election of the committee chair amid several garbled transcriptions of the chair’s name, votes aye in the related roll calls, is nominated and seconded for committee secretary, casts another aye vote, and is thanked for his continued service and prior work as vice chair.
Ed Orcutt — The chair makes a punning reference to Representative Orcutt before turning to the cannabis market study.
Roger Goodman — Representative Paulette appears to be a mis-transcription; likely a member name is being called present, but uncertain.
Jesse Salomon — Senator Solomon is marked present.
Jesse Salomon — Senator Solomon votes aye.
Jesse Salomon — Senator Solomon is thanked as the outgoing chair.
Jesse Salomon — Senator Solomon votes aye.
Shaun Scott — Representative Shaun Scott is noted as present, then called during a vote and recorded voting aye; a later likely misspelled reference to him appears before another aye vote is recorded.
Shelly Short — Shelly Short is present during the roll call and is repeatedly recorded as voting aye in the sequence, including several garbled references to other members that appear to be transcription errors within the same vote tally.
Shelly Short — Senator Short comments that the Washington operation was hoped for but did not materialize, and thanks those who worked on it.
Keith Wagoner — Keith Wagoner is present, votes aye, is nominated for committee vice chair for the 2025-27 biennium, is confirmed as the nominee, votes aye in the election, and is thanked for serving as vice chair in the next biennium.
Mark Schoesler — Mark Schoesler voted aye during the roll call vote.
Mark Schoesler — Senator Wagner’s question about whether employment and wage data could be disclosed led to an explanation that the data could not be released because it was evaluated using Employment Security data and the underlying information was too limited to disclose. The discussion then continued with a reference to Senator Wagner’s question and a possible waiver as a way to release the data.
John Braun — John Braun participated in the roll call vote and voted aye; the vote was repeated in the transcript and concluded with the motion passing.
Steve Conway — Senator Solomon was nominated and seconded for the position of Committee Assistant Secretary for the 2025-27 biennium, described as having served as chair for the last six months, and then received aye votes during the roll call.
Claire Wilson — Voted aye in the roll call.
Mari Leavitt — Voted aye in the roll call.
Melanie Stidham — Melanie Stidham is introduced as a presenter for the preliminary report on Washington State Recreation Boating Programs, then identifies herself and notes that she is joined by her colleague Amanda Edrick in presenting the report.
Amanda Edrick — Amanda Edrick is introduced as a presenter and co-presenter with Melanie Stidham for the preliminary report on Washington State Recreation Boating Programs.
Amanda Edrick — Introduced the presentation on the proposed study questions for the expedited drug take-back report.
Rob Sendak — Identified as the Boating Law Administrator from State Parks and available to answer questions.
Adam Cole — Identified as a policy specialist from Fish and Wildlife and available to answer questions.
Amanda — Thanked for the presentation and audit work.
Melanie — Thanked for the presentation and audit work.
Pete Van Morsel — Introduced the 2025 tax preference performance reviews presentation.
Aline Mizona — Named as a colleague assisting with the presentation.
Eric Whitaker — Named as a colleague assisting with the presentation.
Jeff Cunningham — Named as a remote participant in the presentation.
Cyndy Jacobsen — Raised the idea of a taxpayer waiver and asked about fuel goals not being met.
Jessica Bateman — Jessica Bateman is mentioned in a brief exchange where the transcript appears to misidentify or uncertainly render a senator’s name as 'Senator Gaynor.' The discussion is limited to this unclear reference and a follow-up acknowledgment, with no substantive topic change between the mentions.
Judy Warnick — Likely the chair being addressed as 'Mr. Chair'; transcript says 'Thank you, Mr. Chair.'
April Berg — Asked whether the preference is budgeted, whether unused authority is sitting in the budget, and whether the state benefit could be connected directly to the federal benefit.
April Berg — Representative Berg questioned whether the existing preference might now be relevant because of the new sales tax on services. He followed up by explaining his concern that a preference currently not being used could become useful under the new legislation, so it should not be removed prematurely.
Adrian Cortes — Senator Gaynor (identified in the transcript as Adrian Cortes) asks a series of related questions about reimbursement rules: whether disability-related expenses are eligible, what should be submitted for reimbursement when a federal grant already covers the project, and whether sales tax can also be reimbursed.
Kathy Leung — Kathy Leung identified herself as being from the Department of Revenue and said she did not have a good answer at the moment but would follow up. Representative Berg then thanked her for the exchange.
Jim McCune — The senator comments that tax preferences and exemptions for ag products and fertilizer should be considered in the broader production-cost context.
Susanna Pratt — Staff to the committee presents the proposed final report for the cannabis market study.
Susanna Pratt — The chair first opens the floor for questions to Susanna Pratt, who had presented the JLARC report earlier. A short time later, the speaker thanks Susanna Pratt and then transitions to inviting the LCB team to respond, marking the end of the direct exchange with her.
Rachel Swannar — Rachel Swannar introduces herself as Chief Financial Officer for the Liquor and Cannabis Board.
Mark Webster — Rachel Swannar identifies Mark Webster as the Legislative Director.
Will Lookella — Rachel Swannar identifies Will Lookella as the agency director in the audience.
Jim Volendroff — Rachel Swannar identifies Jim Volendroff as board chairman in the audience.
Will Lookello — The speaker references the written response submitted by the agency director, Will Lookello.
SB5080 — Referenced as the bill associated with the retail cannabis licenses.
Susanna — Referenced as having pointed out the potential for licenses with a greater chance of success.
Susanna — Referenced as having discussed tracing and product recalls.
Mark — Referenced as having stated that the system is more complex than sales tracking alone.
Zane Potter — Introduced himself as committee staff and presenter for the Department of Health oversight report.
Ashley Trunell — Identified as Zane Potter's colleague and committee staff.