Following are some of the bills being monitored by the Washington State Labor Council, and their status.  There are additional bills that the WSLC supports or opposes. If your affiliated union would like to add a bill of particular concern to this Legislative Tracker™, please contact us. Links on the bill numbers are to the State Legislature's web site for more information on each bill. For details on these bills, also see our WSLC Legislative Updates.

Bills listed in WHITE (white) are still alive.  
Bills listed in GRAY are dead, having missed a legislative cutoff deadline. Remember, in Olympia, dead is relative. Bills can become budget provisos, and can be resurrected by other procedural means.
Bills listed GREEN have passed and been signed by the governor.

HOUSE BILLS of concern
BILL	SPONSOR	STATUS	LABOR'S POSITION	SUMMARY
HB 1096	Kenney	Passed House 96-0; amended and passed Senate 45-0; House concurs 94-1; signed by the Governor	Support	Encouraging job-linked training -- and labor and business partnerships -- as part of the Opportunity Grants Program.
HB 1244	Conway	Passed House 64-32; amended and passed Senate 47-0; House concurs 63-31; signed by the Governor	Support	The "hour bank" workers' compensation bill, restoring the value of health benefits when calculating workers' comp benefits.
HB 1306	Green	Passed Commerce & Labor; died in Appropriations	Support	This would add Western and Eastern State Hospitals, as well as other health care entities, to the law protecting registered and licensed nurses from mandatory overtime.
HB 1370	Green	Passed House 93-0; passed Senate 47-0; signed by the Governor	Support	Clarifying the law to exempt public workers from prevailing-wage surveys.
HB 1384	Kenney	Passed Higher Education; died in Appropriations	Support	Providing for academic employee salary increments for community and technical colleges. (Companion SB 5495 also died.) The WSLC strongly urges that these pay raises by funded in the budget.
HB 1503	Conway	Passed Commerce & Labor and Appropriations; died in Rules	Support	Injured Workers Medical Rights bill, protecting injured workers' interests in the Independent Medical Exam process.
HB 1569	Cody	Passed House 53-44; amended and passed Senate 28-20; House concurs 61-34; partially vetoed by the Governor	Support	Creating a "connector" program that standardizes insurance plans to be used by providers throughout the state, creating a range of portable health insurance plans and allowing people who move or change jobs to retain their coverage. (The Governor vetoed the emergency clause and one other section.)
HB 1583	Moeller	Passed House 91-7; passed Senate 41-3; signed by the Governor	Support	Requiring disclosure to customers of the percentage of automatic service charges paid to servers.
HB 1624	Kagi	Passed House 98-0; amended and passed Senate 44-0; House refuses to concur, Senate amends again (repeat); but finally a bill passes both and is signed by the Governor	Support	Granting collective bargaining rights to foster parents.
HB 1693	Appleton	Passed House 97-0; passed Senate 47-0; signed by the Governor	Support	Modifying time periods for collective bargaining by ferry workers.
HB 1810	Hudgins	Passed Commerce & Labor; died in Appropriations	Support	Creates a pilot project to measure pesticide drift data for use in assessing the potential human health impacts from such exposure to children and adults in schools and communities in agricultural areas.
HB 1825	Schual- Berke	Passed House 95-0; passed Senate Health & Long-Term Care, died in Ways & Means	Support	Replacing dedicated funding for public health services that was lost when the Motor Vehicle Excise Tax was repealed in 1999.
HB 1827	Santos	Passed House Finance; died in Rules	Support	Requires that the governor submit, along with a biennial budget proposal, a tax expenditure report listing all tax expenditures (exemptions) given out by the state.
HB 1828	Sells	Died in House Commerce & Labor	Support	Requiring neutrality towards unionization to receive aerospace-related tax incentives. (Supporters of this bill also support HB 2351.)
HB 1898	Quall	Passed House 65-33; amended and passed Senate 34-14; House concurs 69-25; signed by the Governor	Support	Providing apprenticeship utilization requirements for school district public works projects.
HB 1913	Conway	Passed Commerce & Labor; died in Rules	Support	Certifying an employee organization for the purposes of state collective bargaining. (Also see SB 5772.)
HB 1919	Conway	Passed Commerce & Labor; died in Rules	Support	Providing apprenticeship utilization requirements for port district public works projects.
HB 1968	Simpson	Passed House 74-21; passed Senate 34-13; signed by the Governor	Support	Requiring certification for sprinkler fitters.
HB 2010	Haigh	Passed House 76-21; passed Senate 45-3; signed by the Governor	Support	Providing responsible bidder criteria for public works contracts.
HB 2018	McDermott	Died in State Government & Tribal Affairs	Support	Requires the licensing of paid signature gathering firms, plus training and permitting of paid signature gatherers
HB 2019	McDermott	Passed State Government & Tribal Affairs; died in Rules	Support	Requires signature gatherers to sign a declaration on the back of the petition attesting that the signatures on the petition are those of registered voters.
HB 2047	McDermott	Passed State Government & Tribal Affairs; died in Rules	Support	Provides more financial disclosure during the signature-gathering phase of initiative campaigns.
HB 2079	McDermott	Passed House 55-42; passed Senate 29-20; signed by the Governor	Support	Concerning the use of agency shop fees.
HB 2094	Conway	Passed Commerce & Labor; hearing held in Appropriations	Support	Creating the Washington Taxpayer Health Care Fairness Act, requiring employers with more than 1,000 workers to reimburse the state for their employees who are on tax-subsidized health plans.
HB 2106	Kenney	Passed Commerce & Labor and Appropriations; died in Rules	Support	A bill to strengthen the ability of L&I to deny licenses to contractors with a record of serious legal violations, prohibit exorbitant recruitment fees, and require sufficient bonding so that workers are not stranded in Washington state.
HB 2111	Williams	Passed House 80-16; passed Senate 32-17; signed by the Governor	Support	Granting collective bargaining rights to  Adult Family Home Providers.
HB 2171	Eddy	Passed House 97-0; passed Senate 39-8; signed by the Governor	Support	Crane safety bill requiring mandatory certification of cranes and their operators.
HB 2351	Sells	Amended and passed House Finance; died in Rules	Support	Prohibiting employers that receive the 2003 aerospace tax incentives from forcing employees to attend captive-audience meetings to re: religion, politics, or unionization. (Amended to require a feasibility study on the above-described policy for all state tax incentives.)
HB 2361	Conway	Passed House 75-22; passed Senate 38-10; signed by the Governor	Support	Changing collective bargaining eligibility requirements for certain higher education employees.
HJM 4008	Conway	Passed Commerce & Labor; now in Rules (this remains alive and available for a vote until adjournment)	Support	Urges Congress to pass the Employee Free Choice Act.