No floor but a couple committees are meeting

Legislators are taking a break from floor action today to give time for the Finance and Ways & Means committees to move some jobs and budget-related Senate bills forward.

At 10 in Finance:
Public Hearing:
1. ESSB 5899 - Providing a business and occupation tax credit for qualified employment positions.
2. 2SSB 6675 - Creating the Washington global health technologies and product development competitiveness program and allowing certain tax credits for program contributions.
3. SSB 6712 - Extending expiring tax incentives for certain clean alternative fuel vehicles, producers of certain biofuels, and federal aviation regulation part 145 certificated repair stations.
4. SSB 6727 - Concerning health sciences and services authorities.

Possible Executive Session:
1. SSB 6712 - Extending expiring tax incentives for certain clean alternative fuel vehicles, producers of certain biofuels, and federal aviation regulation part 145 certificated repair stations.
2. ESSB 6737 - Providing an exemption from property tax for aircraft used to provide air ambulance services.
3. Bills referred to committee.


At 3:30 in Ways & Means:
Public Hearing: SSB 6572 - Eliminating certain accounts.

Possible Executive Session:
1. HB 2365 - Relating to general government programs to implement the 2009-2011 operating budget.
2. SSB 6572 - Eliminating certain accounts.
3. Bills referred to committee.