Public Hearing: SB 5526 – Studying the global availability of lithium and rare earth minerals for battery manufacturing; SB 5541 – Exempting newspapers from business and occupation tax; SB 5770 – Providing Washington state convention economy grants. (Hearing is on the Proposed Substitute.) SB 5879 – Requiring insurers who use credit information to provide reasonable exceptions to insurance rates for consumers experiencing extraordinary life circumstances; SB 5880 – Concerning fire protection sprinkler system contractors.
Executive Session: SB 5725 – Concerning powers of the legislative committee on economic development and international relations; SB 5810 – Concerning insurance regulation; SJM 8006 – Concerning a national infrastructure bank.
