Tina Orwall — Moved Senate Bill 5924 and explained it expands pharmacy practice.
SB5924 — Senate Bill 5924 is described as expanding pharmacy practice to allow limited diagnosing and the prescribing or ordering of certain drugs and devices, and a motion is then made and carried to advance the bill to the floor calendar.
Travis Couture — Transcript says 'Senator McEwen' in a context that likely refers to a Republican member; not confidently matched to the member list.
SB6134 — Senate Bill 6134 is moved from the white sheet to the floor calendar, and the bill is described as requiring ESD to notify striking workers of possible overpayment if they receive retroactive pay after negotiations are finalized.
Curtis King — Moved Senate Bill 6263.
Curtis King — Explained Senate Bill 6263 and urged a yes vote.
Curtis King — The transcript appears to misidentify the speaker as Senator Carter; the context suggests Senator King is speaking in support of the bill.
Curtis King — Is recognized for further remarks on Senate Bill 6302.
Curtis King — Raises concerns that Senate Bill 6302 would overly limit independent contractors and asks for a no vote.
SB6263 — Senate Bill 6263 is moved from the white sheet to the floor calendar. The bill is described as increasing school district public bid thresholds for purchasing and for building improvements and repairs, and the motion to advance it to the floor calendar is approved by voice vote.
Carolyn Eslick — The prior bill discussion about school district bid thresholds continues from the previous section, but no new member is clearly identified in this excerpt.
Annette Cleveland — Senator Annette Cleveland moves to advance Senate Bill 5395 from the white sheet to the floor calendar and explains that the bill adds guardrails around AI use in prior authorization decisions and medical necessity determinations.
SB5395 — Senate Bill 5395 is moved from the white sheet to the floor calendar, and the discussion explains that the bill regulates prior authorization decisions, including the use of AI, requires medical necessity determinations to be made by licensed medical doctors or other qualified health care professionals, and prohibits retroactive denials.
Steve Conway — Moves Senate Bill 6282 from the white sheet to the floor calendar.
SB6282 — Senate Bill 6282, which concerns adding behavioral health training to apprenticeship programs to address construction worker suicide, is moved from the white sheet to the floor calendar and the motion is approved by voice vote.
SB5905 — Senate Bill 5905 is moved from the white sheet to the floor calendar, and the bill is briefly explained as addressing Washington law restrictions on port district employees being enrolled in two pension systems. The explanation notes that certain employees already covered by PERS, the Federal Railroad Retirement Plan, or Taft-Hartley union-sponsored defined benefit plans are excluded.
Rebecca Saldaña — Senator Rebecca Saldaña moves two bills from the white sheet to the appropriate calendars: Senate Bill 6302 to the floor calendar and Senate Bill 5950 to the second reading calendar.
SB6302 — Senate Bill 6302 is moved from the white sheet to the floor/second reading calendar, and the discussion briefly explains that the bill is intended to address underground economy and worker misclassification concerns on public works projects by limiting the use of multiple independent contractors for the same finishing work. Support is expressed for the bill before the committee proceeds with advancing it.
SB5950 — Senate Bill 5950 is moved from the white sheet to the second reading calendar, and the bill is described as expanding the list of non-legal state holidays to include certain Jewish, Sikh, and Hindu holidays.
John Lovick — Moves Senate Bill 6074 from the white sheet to the floor calendar.
SB6074 — Senate Bill 6074 is moved from the white sheet to the floor calendar, and the bill is described as directing the Ruckelshaus Center to coordinate a work group to study reestablishing parole in Washington and develop eligibility criteria.
Ron Muzzall — Moves Senate Bill 6226 from the white sheet to the floor calendar.
SB6226 — The committee considers Senate Bill 6226 and moves it from the white sheet to the floor calendar. In the discussion, the bill is described as protecting the clinical autonomy of audiologists by allowing them to use clinical judgment in deciding whether telehealth or in-person care is the appropriate treatment modality for a patient. The committee then prepares to vote on advancing the bill to the floor calendar.
Shelly Short — Moves Senate Bill 6096 from the white sheet to the floor calendar.
SB6096 — Senate Bill 6096 was described as a measure requiring cities and counties to adopt deferred collection systems for utility connection charges for residential construction by 2030. A motion was then made to advance the bill from the White Sheet to the floor/second reading calendar, and the motion carried.
John Braun — Senator John Braun moved to advance Senate Bill 5970 from the white sheet to the floor calendar and explained that the bill would make the property tax exemption for multipurpose senior citizens' centers permanent, urging support for the measure.
SB5970 — Senate Bill 5970 was advanced from the white sheet to the floor calendar. Senator Braun described the bill as making the property tax exemption permanent for multipurpose senior citizens' centers, and the committee subsequently voted to advance it, with the motion carrying.
SB6269 — Senate Bill 6269, described as a technical bill updating fuel type definitions for hydrogen fueling station oversight, was moved from the White Sheet to the floor calendar and advanced by vote.
Strom Peterson — Responded that there was no more business to come before the committee, leading to adjournment.
SB5873 — Senate Bill 5873 was moved from the white sheet to the floor calendar and described as a compassionate leave/escorted leave bill for incarcerated individuals, allowing escorted family visits for funerals or hospital bedside situations. The motion to advance the bill to the floor calendar carried.
Jeff Wilson — Senator Jeff Wilson moved Senate Bill 5992 from the white sheet to the floor calendar, with an earlier transcript reference corrected from 5956 to 5992. He then briefly described the bill as creating a youth development fund account to expand access to positive youth development programs and urged support.
SB5956 — Initially stated as the bill being moved by Senator Wilson before the transcript corrects it.
SB5992 — Senate Bill 5992 is corrected/identified and described as creating a youth development fund account to support youth development programs through OSPI grants, and the committee moves to advance the bill to the second reading calendar.
SB6086 — Senate Bill 6086 was moved from the white sheet to the floor calendar, with the motion described as advancing the bill and then carried.
SB5574 — Senate Bill 5574 is moved from the white sheet to the floor calendar, and its purpose is explained as requiring school districts to include instruction on Asian-American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander, Latino American, and Black American histories in required social studies courses during the regular curriculum review cycle.