Washington HB 1045: Creating the evergreen basic income pilot program.

Bill Text

AN ACT Relating to expanding the definition of uniformed 1
personnel to all law enforcement officers employed by a city, town, 2
or county; and amending RCW 41.56.030.3
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:4
Sec. 1. RCW 41.56.030 and 2024 c 124 s 1 are each amended to 5
read as follows:6
As used in this chapter:7
(1) "Adult family home provider" means a provider as defined in 8
RCW 70.128.010 who receives payments from the medicaid and state-9
funded long-term care programs.10
(2) "Bargaining representative" means any lawful organization 11
which has as one of its primary purposes the representation of 12
employees in their employment relations with employers.13
(3) "Child care subsidy" means a payment from the state through a 14
child care subsidy program established pursuant to RCW 74.12.340, 45 15
C.F.R. Sec. 98.1 through 98.17, or any successor program.16
(4) "Collective bargaining" means the performance of the mutual 17
obligations of the public employer and the exclusive bargaining 18
representative to meet at reasonable times, to confer and negotiate 19
in good faith, and to execute a written agreement with respect to 20
grievance procedures, subject to RCW 41.58.070, and collective 21
H-0216.1
HOUSE BILL 1045
State of Washington 69th Legislature 2025 Regular Session
By Representatives Bronoske, Griffey, Reeves, Fosse, Low, Leavitt,
Nance, and Donaghy
Prefiled 12/11/24. Read first time 01/13/25. Referred to Committee
on Labor & Workplace Standards.
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negotiations on personnel matters, including wages, hours, and 1
working conditions, which may be peculiar to an appropriate 2
bargaining unit of such public employer, except that by such 3
obligation neither party shall be compelled to agree to a proposal or 4
be required to make a concession unless otherwise provided in this 5
chapter.6
(5) "Commission" means the public employment relations 7
commission.8
(6) "Executive director" means the executive director of the 9
commission.10
(7) "Family child care provider" means a person who: (a) Provides 11
regularly scheduled care for a child or children in the home of the 12
provider or in the home of the child or children for periods of less 13
than twenty-four hours or, if necessary due to the nature of the 14
parent's work, for periods equal to or greater than twenty-four 15
hours; (b) receives child care subsidies; and (c) under chapter 16
43.216 RCW, is either licensed by the state or is exempt from 17
licensing.18
(8) "Fish and wildlife officer" means a fish and wildlife officer 19
as defined in RCW 77.08.010 who ranks below lieutenant and includes 20
officers, detectives, and sergeants of the department of fish and 21
wildlife.22
(9) "Individual provider" means an individual provider as defined 23
in RCW 74.39A.240(3) who, solely for the purposes of collective 24
bargaining, is a public employee as provided in RCW 74.39A.270.25
(10) "Institution of higher education" means the University of 26
Washington, Washington State University, Central Washington 27
University, Eastern Washington University, Western Washington 28
University, The Evergreen State College, and the various state 29
community colleges.30
(11)(a) "Language access provider" means any independent 31
contractor who provides spoken language interpreter services, whether 32
paid by a broker, language access agency, or the respective 33
department:34
(i) For department of social and health services appointments, 35
department of children, youth, and families appointments, medicaid 36
enrollee appointments, or who provided these services on or after 37
January 1, 2011, and before June 10, 2012;38
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(ii) For department of labor and industries authorized medical 1
and vocational providers who provided these services on or after 2
January 1, 2019; or3
(iii) For state agencies who provided these services on or after 4
January 1, 2019.5
(b) "Language access provider" does not mean a manager or 6
employee of a broker or a language access agency.7
(12) "Public employee" means any employee of a public employer 8
except any person (a) elected by popular vote, or (b) appointed to 9
office pursuant to statute, ordinance or resolution for a specified 10
term of office as a member of a multimember board, commission, or 11
committee, whether appointed by the executive head or body of the 12
public employer, or (c) whose duties as deputy, administrative 13
assistant or secretary necessarily imply a confidential relationship 14
to (i) the executive head or body of the applicable bargaining unit, 15
or (ii) any person elected by popular vote, or (iii) any person 16
appointed to office pursuant to statute, ordinance or resolution for 17
a specified term of office as a member of a multimember board, 18
commission, or committee, whether appointed by the executive head or 19
body of the public employer, or (d) who is a court commissioner or a 20
court magistrate of superior court, district court, or a department 21
of