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Referred Bills (264)
Addressing the collection of unpaid wages.
Addressing contractor liability for industrial insurance premiums for not-for-profit nonemergency medicaid transportation brokers.
Concerning department of labor and industries appeal bonds.
Concerning telecommunications installations.
Addressing prevailing wage filings.
Establishing a farm internship program.
Restricting the use of personal information gathered during the claims resolution structured settlement agreement process.
Establishing a farm internship program.
Implementing procedures concerning certain whistleblowers.
Amending the definition of uniformed personnel for the purposes of public employees' collective bargaining.
Concerning telecommunications installations.
Creating a good faith defense for certain minimum wage and overtime compensation complaints.
Granting scheduling authority for qualified retrospective rating plan employers and groups.
Regarding miniature hobby boilers.
Authorizing workers' compensation group self-insurance plans.
Amending provisions governing structured settlements by removing age barriers and clarifying legislative intent.
Establishing a mandatory occupational disease exposure reporting requirement for firefighters.
Requiring completion of an apprenticeship program to receive a journeyman or residential specialty electrician certificate of competency.
Regarding miniature hobby boilers.
Establishing the prevailing rate of wage based on collective bargaining agreements or other methods if collective bargaining agreements are not available.
Simplifying and enforcing employee status under employment laws to ensure fairness to employers and employees and address the underground economy.
Concerning the employee antiretaliation act.
Concerning telecommunications work experience for purposes of eligibility toward limited energy specialty electrician certification.
Concerning certified payroll records on public works projects.
Providing damages for wage violations.
Addressing industrial insurance requirements and options for owners and lessees of for hire vehicles, limousines, and taxicabs.
Amending provisions governing structured settlements by removing age barriers and clarifying legislative intent.
Creating a good faith defense for certain minimum wage and overtime compensation complaints.
Amending provisions governing structured settlements by removing age barriers and clarifying legislative intent.
Granting scheduling authority for qualified retrospective rating plan employers and groups.
Defining suitable work to include a minimum age requirement.
Addressing the collection of unpaid wages.
Modifying collective bargaining law related to providing additional compensation for academic employees at community and technical colleges.
Establishing minimum standards for sick and safe leave from employment.
Creating the agricultural labor skills and safety grant program.
Approving the workforce training and education coordinating board's high skills high wages plan.
Concerning the family and medical leave insurance act. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Concerning funding the family and medical leave insurance act. )
Addressing employee wellness programs.
Addressing the prevailing rate of wage paid on public works.
Requiring surveys to develop data for prevailing wage determinations.
Concerning prevailing wages for workers employed in residential construction.
Placing geographic limitations on local paid sick leave and paid safe leave programs.
Concerning integrated career learning opportunities and employment training for at-risk youth.
Addressing compensation for injured workers.
Concerning railroad crews.
Concerning commercial janitorial services.
Increasing the use of apprenticeships.
Concerning whistleblowers in the electrical industry.
Concerning registration requirements for contractors.
Increasing the minimum hourly wage to twelve dollars over three years.
Ensuring work jurisdictions of unions are respected and preserved in public works contracting.
Establishing community service standards for individuals receiving unemployment benefits.
Establishing the minimum wage for classified school employees.
Prohibiting employers from asking about or using nonconviction information in initial applications for employment.
Requiring employers to reimburse employees for work-related expenses.
Concerning dumbwaiters.
Concerning voluntary independent contractor certification.
Allowing employers to pay training wages to new employees.
Removing the authority of an employer to unilaterally implement a collective bargaining agreement.
Revising payment requirements for court review of industrial insurance taxes, penalties, or interest.
Limiting industrial insurance benefits for injuries or diseases caused by use of intoxicating liquor or drugs.
Modifying the exemption from contractor registration requirements for work that is casual, minor, or inconsequential.
Auditing employers for compliance with industrial insurance provisions.
Permitting local governments to opt out of prevailing wage requirements.
Improving the accuracy of the prevailing rate of wage.
Improving the accuracy of the prevailing rate of wage.
Requiring the tracking of prevailing wage surveys.
Addressing paid vacation leave.
Requiring contractor registration numbers on vehicles.
Concerning dwelling unit fire protection sprinkler systems.
Concerning electrician licensing and identification requirements.
Preempting local employment laws and contracts.
Simplifying and providing clarity to independent contractor tests for the construction industry.
Concerning training for holders of a pump and irrigation or domestic pump specialty trainee certificate.
Authorizing collective bargaining for assistant attorneys general.
Ensuring fairness to employers by protecting employees.
Addressing the recommendations of the vocational rehabilitation subcommittee for workers' compensation.
Applying the public employees' collective bargaining act to department of corrections employees.
Increasing protections for employees under the Washington industrial safety and health act of 1973.
Implementing the unemployment insurance integrity provisions of the federal trade adjustment assistance extension act of 2011.
Clarifying the employment status of independent contractors in the news business.
Achieving economic security through income sufficient to meet basic needs.
Prohibiting certain employer communications about political or religious matters.
Addressing the rate of compensation for occupational diseases.
Increasing protections for employees under the Washington industrial safety and health act of 1973.
Concerning integrated career learning opportunities and employment training for at-risk youth.
Concerning credential and permit requirements for generator load bank testing.
Addressing supplemental bargaining under the personnel system reform act.
Concerning centers of excellence.
Addressing the removal and discharge of peace officers.
Placing geographic limitations on local paid sick leave and paid safe leave programs.
Concerning the replacement of like-in-kind household appliances.
Declaring state preemption of local paid sick and paid safe leave regulation.
Concerning for hire vehicles, limousines, and taxicabs.
Addressing drayage truck operators at certain ports.
Addressing determinations of prevailing wage rates on public works projects.
Clarifying the employment status of independent contractors in the news business.
Concerning the workforce training and education coordinating board's high skills high wages plan.
Addressing contractor liability for industrial insurance premiums.
Concerning the marine employees' commission.
Allowing lunch breaks for registered tow truck operators while requiring reasonable availability.
Regulating the hours of service for certain railroad employees.
Granting binding interest arbitration rights to certain uniformed personnel.
Concerning the reduction in force of tenured or probationary community college faculty members.
Applying the public employees' collective bargaining act to department of corrections employees.
Removing the expiration date from RCW 47.64.280 regarding the marine employees' commission complaint and dispute procedure.
Requiring certain entities to report payments for construction services.
Simplifying and adding certainty to the calculation of workers' compensation benefits.
Requiring notice of employees' rights related to unions.
Creating a good faith defense for certain minimum wage and overtime compensation complaints.
Concerning recovery for purposes of legal actions under the industrial insurance statutes.
Addressing compensation for injured workers.
Ensuring fairness to employers by protecting employees.
Implementing family and medical leave insurance.
Addressing the recommendations of the vocational rehabilitation subcommittee for workers' compensation.
Implementing the unemployment insurance integrity provisions of the federal trade adjustment assistance extension act of 2011.
Addressing claims and compensation under the industrial insurance laws.
Addressing claim files and compensation under the industrial insurance laws.
Addressing claim files and compensation under the industrial insurance laws.
Granting scheduling authority for qualified retrospective rating plan employers and groups.
Regulating tipped employee wages and benefits.
Exempting from prevailing wage requirements public works projects undertaken to repair fire damage.
Concerning exemptions from prevailing wage for school plant facilities receiving state funding assistance through the school construction assistance program.
Addressing meal and rest breaks for hospital employees.
Allowing employers to pay a training wage for a specified period of time.
Regulating mandatory overtime for employees of health care facilities.
Addressing respirator requirements for asbestos abatement projects.
Amending provisions governing structured settlements by removing age barriers and clarifying legislative intent.
Requiring use of resident workers on public works.
Extending apprenticeship utilization requirements.
Extending the application of prevailing wage requirements.
Concerning social networking accounts and profiles.
Creating an industrial insurance high risk premium subsidy program.
Addressing the recommendations of the vocational rehabilitation subcommittee for workers' compensation.
Increasing educational options under vocational rehabilitation plans. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Ordering consideration of increased educational options under vocational rehabilitation plans. )
Changing the corporate officer provisions of the employment security act.
Providing unemployment insurance benefit charging relief for part-time employers who continue to employ a claimant on a part-time basis and the claimant qualified for two consecutive claims with wages attributable to at least one employer who employed the claimant in both base years.
Clarifying that real estate brokers licensed under chapter 18.85 RCW are independent contractors.
Implementing the unemployment insurance integrity provisions of the federal trade adjustment assistance extension act of 2011.
Allowing a person to apply for a work permit for the employment of minors without completing a new master application under certain circumstances.
Clarifying the employment status of independent contractors in the news business.
Allowing the department of labor and industries to provide information about certain scholarships.
Modifying payment methods on certain claimants' benefits.
Changing the employment security department's settlement authority.
Modifying job skills program provisions.
Addressing industrial insurance for horse racing employment.
Changing the unemployment insurance shared work program by adopting short-time compensation provisions in the federal middle class tax relief and job creation act of 2012.
Making coverage of certain maritime service elective for purposes of unemployment compensation.
Authorizing certain corporate officers to receive unemployment benefits.
Addressing when predecessor-successor relationships do not exist for purposes of unemployment experience rating.
Narrowing the definition of language access providers.
Regarding the governor as the public employer of language access providers.
Making coverage of certain maritime service elective for purposes of unemployment compensation.
Granting collective bargaining for postdoctoral researchers at certain state universities.
Concerning the definitions of "contractor" and "subcontractor" for the purposes of prevailing wages on public works.
Requiring medical claims to be addressed by communicating with workers in their primary language.
Requiring drug testing of all employees of a law enforcement agency or fire department.
Requiring law enforcement agencies and fire departments to suspend an employee who is involved in the use of illegal drugs.
Creating a lifelong learning program.
Concerning nursing staffing practices at hospitals.
Maintaining voluntary use of electronic employment verification systems.
Modifying the inflationary adjustment to the minimum hourly wage.
Placing restrictions on mandatory overtime for employees of health care facilities.
Establishing minimum standards for sick and safe leave from employment.
Regulating the minimum hourly wage of tipped employees.
Setting employee salaries upon reallocation or layoff action.
Suspending the adjustment of the minimum hourly wage rate during periods of high unemployment.
Regulating drayage truck operators.
Addressing claim files and compensation under the industrial insurance laws.
Protecting workers and other community members from pesticide drift.
Addressing workplace bullying by making it an unfair practice to subject an employee to an abusive work environment.
Increasing protections for employees under the Washington industrial safety and health act of 1973.
Modifying the opportunity internship program.
Changing the certified and registered mail requirements of the department of labor and industries and employment security department.
Strengthening Washington's workforce development system by providing greater focus and better alignment of roles and responsibilities, and transferring administration of title I-B of the workforce investment act to the workforce training and education coordinating board.
Requiring training for eligibility for certain electrician certifications.
Concerning the conforming of apprenticeship program standards to federal labor standards.
Regarding records requests relating to prevailing wage investigations.
Addressing the abatement of violations of the Washington industrial safety and health act during an appeal.
Addressing occupational health best practices in industrial insurance through creation of a state-approved medical provider network and expansion of centers for occupational health and education.
Requiring creation of a web-based application to match profiles of students and employers for internship opportunities.
Concerning industrial insurance employer wage subsidies and reimbursements for light duty or transitional work.
Freezing industrial insurance cost-of-living increases.
Addressing the industrial insurance medical provider network with respect to provider treatment or procedures ordered by the board of industrial insurance appeals or a court and provider appeals.
Creating the industrial insurance rainy day account.
Concerning mechanics' and materialmen's claims of liens.
Including Renton technical college in the aerospace training student loan program.
Authorizing certain corporate officers to receive unemployment benefits.
Providing unemployment insurance benefit charging relief for part-time employers who continue to employ a claimant on a part-time basis and the claimant qualified for two consecutive claims with wages attributable to at least one employer who employed the claimant in both base years.
Establishing Washington works payments to increase graduation rates, address critical skill shortages, increase student success, and narrow the educational opportunity gap.
Granting scheduling authority for qualified retrospective rating plan employers and groups.
Enacting the career pathways act.
Requiring a performance audit of the workers' compensation claims management system.
Applying the duty of good faith and fair dealing to injured workers.
Reforming workers' compensation through authorization of voluntary settlements and creation of a return-to-work subsidy program.
Reforming workers' compensation through authorization of voluntary settlements and creation of a return-to-work subsidy program.
Implementing performance measures and improvement plans for the workers' compensation system, including the occupational safety and health program, to improve administration and efficiency.
Eliminating restrictions on causes of action by workers injured in employment.
Prohibiting certain employer communications about political or religious matters.
Prohibiting deductions of workers' compensation premiums and other costs from wages and earnings.
Extending collective bargaining rights to employees of the legislative branch of the state government.
Achieving savings in workers' compensation but only with respect to permanent partial disability awards and awards of permanent total disability following an award of permanent partial disability.
Creating the industrial insurance rainy day account.
Freezing industrial insurance cost-of-living increases.
Concerning industrial insurance employer wage subsidies and reimbursements for light duty or transitional work.
Addressing information contained in rate notices under the industrial insurance laws.
Concerning industrial insurance employer wage subsidies and reimbursements for light duty or transitional work.
Simplifying and adding certainty to the calculation of workers' compensation benefits.
Concerning long-term disability for injured workers.
Imposing penalties for violations by certain self-insurers, third-party administrators, and claims management entities.
Addressing occupational disease claims and authorization of voluntary settlements.
Concerning long-term disability for injured workers.
Addressing occupational health best practices in industrial insurance through creation of a state-approved medical provider network and expansion of centers for occupational health and education.
Addressing the rights of employees of service contractors at certain airports.
Concerning workers' compensation payments and records.
Regarding enforcement of family leave violations.
Exempting certain employees in the transportation industry who work in armored vehicles from meal and rest period requirements.
Requiring creation of a web-based application to match profiles of students and employers for internship opportunities.
Granting binding interest arbitration rights to certain uniformed personnel.
Concerning mechanics' and materialmen's claims of liens.
Addressing the abatement of violations of the Washington industrial safety and health act during an appeal.
Establishing procedures for requesting the funds necessary to implement the compensation and fringe benefit provisions of bargaining agreements with the University of Washington under chapter 41.80 RCW.
Changing the certified and registered mail requirements of the department of labor and industries and employment security department.
Concerning long-term disability for injured workers and costs to the workers' compensation program.
Modifying the opportunity internship program.
Achieving economic security through income sufficient to meet basic needs.
Adjusting the minimum wage rate based on changes in consumer prices.
Creating a good faith defense for certain minimum wage and overtime compensation complaints.
Providing additional claims management authority for retrospective rating plan employers and groups.
Promoting efficiency in the Washington state ferry system through personnel and administration reforms.
Modifying collective bargaining law to authorize providing additional compensation to academic employees at community and technical colleges.
Concerning Washington state ferry system personnel and projects.
Addressing the notice requirements for claiming a mechanics' or materialmen's lien.
Adding heart attacks and strokes as presumptions of occupational disease for law enforcement officers and firefighters.
Addressing the benefits of a surviving spouse of a member of the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system or Washington state patrol retirement system.
Regarding the time for filing a complaint concerning nonpayment of the prevailing rate of wage.
Concerning interest arbitration panel determinations related to local government.
Eliminating the industrial insurance offset for social security retirement benefits.
Allowing employers to pay a training wage for a specified period of time.
Requiring the employment security department to verify that workers referred to employers are authorized to work in the United States.
Granting binding arbitration rights to certain juvenile court services and department of corrections employees.
Eliminating the family leave insurance program.
Providing leave from employment for participating in a child's educational activities.
Delaying the implementation of the family leave insurance program.
Responding to the current economic conditions by temporarily modifying the unemployment insurance program.
Changing the department of labor and industries certified and registered mail requirements.
Regarding records requests relating to prevailing wage investigations.
Concerning the conforming of apprenticeship program standards to federal labor standards.
Promoting workplace safety and health by enacting the blueprint for safety program.
Creating the farm labor account.
Addressing transportation workforce development.
Regarding coordination and evaluation of workforce training for aerospace and materials manufacturing.
Concerning the misclassification of contractors as independent contractors in the construction industry.
Concerning the misclassification of contractors as independent contractors in the construction industry.
Addressing the recommendations of the vocational rehabilitation subcommittee for workers' compensation.
Addressing administrative efficiencies for the workers' compensation program.
Concerning services performed by amateur sports officials.
Concerning mandatory overtime for certain health care employees.
Addressing bargaining with certified exclusive bargaining representatives.
Concerning for hire vehicles and for hire vehicle operators.
Permitting private employers to exercise a voluntary veterans' preference in employment.
Regarding the streamlining of contractor appeals.
Creating the aerospace training student loan program.
Modifying the unemployment insurance program.