H-1072.1
SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1067
State of Washington 68th Legislature 2023 Regular Session
By House Labor & Workplace Standards (originally sponsored by
Representatives Bronoske, Simmons, Berry, Bateman, Lekanoff, Doglio,
Gregerson, Wylie, Ortiz-Self, Pollet, Davis, Riccelli, Ormsby, and
Fosse)
READ FIRST TIME 02/07/23.
1 AN ACT Relating to wages for journeypersons in high-hazard
2 facilities; amending RCW 49.80.010; and providing an effective date.
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
4 Sec. 1. RCW 49.80.010 and 2019 c 306 s 1 are each amended to
5 read as follows:
6 The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter
7 unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
8 (1) "Apprenticeable occupation" means an occupation for which an
9 apprenticeship program has been approved by the Washington state
10 apprenticeship and training council pursuant to chapter 49.04 RCW.
11 (2) "Department" means the department of labor and industries.
12 (3) "On-site work" does not include ship and rail car support
13 activities; environmental inspection and testing; security guard
14 services; work which is performed by an original equipment
15 manufacturer for warranty, repair, or maintenance on the vendor's
16 equipment if required by the original equipment manufacturer's
17 warranty agreement between the original equipment manufacturer and
18 the owner; industrial cleaning not related to construction; safety
19 services requiring professional safety certification; nonconstruction
20 catalyst loading, regeneration, and removal; chemical purging and
21 cleaning; refinery by-product separation and recovery; inspection
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 1 services not related to construction; and work performed that is not
2 in an apprenticeable occupation.
3 (4) "Prevailing ((hourly wage)) rate of wage" has the same
4 meaning as provided ((for "prevailing rate of wage")) in RCW
5 39.12.010.
6 (5) "Registered apprentice" means an apprentice registered in an
7 apprenticeship program approved by the Washington state
8 apprenticeship and training council according to chapter 49.04 RCW.
9 (6) "Skilled and trained workforce" means a workforce that meets
10 both of the following criteria:
11 (a) All the workers are either registered apprentices or skilled
12 journeypersons; and
13 (b) The workforce meets the apprenticeship graduation and
14 approved advanced safety training requirements established in RCW
15 49.80.030.
16 (7) "Skilled journeyperson" means a worker who meets all of the
17 following criteria:
18 (a) The worker either graduated from an apprenticeship program
19 for the applicable occupation that was approved by the Washington
20 state apprenticeship and training council according to chapter 49.04
21 RCW, or has at least as many hours of on-the-job experience in the
22 applicable occupation that would be required to graduate from an
23 apprenticeship program approved by the Washington state
24 apprenticeship and training council according to chapter 49.04 RCW;
25 and
26 (b) The worker is being paid at least a rate ((commensurate with
27 the wages typically paid for the occupation in the applicable
28 geographic area, subject to the following provisions:
29 (i) The prevailing wage rate paid for a worker in the applicable
30 occupation and geographic area on public works projects may be used
31 to determine the appropriate rate of pay, however, this subsection
32 (7)(b) does not require a contractor to pay prevailing wage rates;
33 and
34 (ii) In no case may the worker be paid at a rate less than an
35 hourly rate consistent with the seventy-fifth percentile in the
36 applicable occupation and geographic area in the most recent
37 occupational employment statistics published by the employment
38 security department)) consistent with the prevailing rate of wage for
39 a worker in the applicable occupation and geographic area.
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1 NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. This act takes effect January 1, 2025.
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Statutes affected:
Original Bill: 49.80.010
Substitute Bill: 49.80.010