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Briefings also covered retirement system technical fixes and a WSIPP study of DCYF screening tools

Appropriations Committee · February 18, 2026

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Summary

Committee staff briefed members on substitute bills for retirement system spending rules (SB 5,834), a lump‑sum minimum benefit increase (SB 5,835), and a WSIPP study of DCYF screening tools (SB 6,007); staff summarized purpose and fiscal notes and there was no public testimony on the retirement items.

The committee received short staff briefings on several additional bills.

David Pringle briefed substitute Senate Bill 5,834—a Department of Retirement Systems request to adjust restrictions on expenditures of interest earnings to pay for fund‑protecting activities such as fraud protection,…

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