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WashingtonHB 11732025-2026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

Concerning wages for journeypersons in high-hazard facilities.

Sponsored By: Dan Bronoske (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

1 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.

Worker pay floors with narrower coverage

Beginning January 1, 2026, Washington sets a wage floor for covered journeyperson work at high-hazard facilities. Pay must match typical wages for the job and area and meet the latest state-published 75th-percentile hourly rate. Covered workers in jobs with approved apprenticeship programs also get this floor unless they qualify as registered apprentices. Employers may use public-works prevailing wage rates to set pay, but those rates are not required. To qualify as a registered apprentice, a worker must be registered in a program approved by Washington’s apprenticeship council. Employers must give written notice of the occupation and wage rates before work starts and keep it in the personnel file. Apprentices must work only within their program’s occupation. The law also narrows covered on-site work. Excluded work includes ship and rail car support, environmental inspection and testing, security guards, and professionally certified safety services. It also excludes manufacturer repair, maintenance, or warranty work on its equipment when required by the manufacturer’s warranty. Other exclusions include nonconstruction industrial cleaning, inspections, and catalyst loading, regeneration, or removal; chemical purging and cleaning; and refinery by-product separation and recovery. Work outside occupations with approved apprenticeship programs is also excluded.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Dan Bronoske

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

  • Alex Ramel

    Democratic • House

  • Debra Lekanoff

    Democratic • House

  • Edwin Obras

    Democratic • House

  • Gerry Pollet

    Democratic • House

  • Greg Nance

    Democratic • House

  • Julia Reed

    Democratic • House

  • Lillian Ortiz-Self

    Democratic • House

  • Liz Berry

    Democratic • House

  • Mary Fosse

    Democratic • House

  • Mia Gregerson

    Democratic • House

  • Natasha Hill

    Democratic • House

  • Roger Goodman

    Democratic • House

  • Tarra Simmons

    Democratic • House

  • Timm Ormsby

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 215 • No: 25

House vote • 4/17/2025

Final Passage as Amended by the Senate

Yes: 89 • No: 7 • Other: 2

Senate vote • 4/10/2025

3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate

Yes: 44 • No: 5

House vote • 3/7/2025

3rd Reading & Final Passage

Yes: 82 • No: 13 • Other: 3

Actions Timeline

  1. Effective date 1/1/2026.

    5/9/2025House

  2. Chapter 210, 2025 Laws.

    5/9/2025House

  3. Governor signed.

    5/9/2025legislature

  4. Delivered to Governor.

    4/22/2025legislature

  5. President signed.

    4/19/2025legislature

  6. Speaker signed.

    4/18/2025legislature

  7. Passed final passage; yeas, 89; nays, 7; absent, 0; excused, 2.

    4/17/2025House

  8. House concurred in Senate amendments.

    4/17/2025House

  9. Third reading, passed; yeas, 44; nays, 5; absent, 0; excused, 0.

    4/10/2025House

  10. Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.

    4/10/2025House

  11. Committee amendment(s) adopted with no other amendments.

    4/10/2025House

  12. Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.

    4/7/2025House

  13. Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.

    3/31/2025House

  14. Minority; without recommendation.

    3/28/2025House

  15. Minority; do not pass.

    3/28/2025House

  16. LC - Majority; do pass with amendment(s).

    3/28/2025House

  17. First reading, referred to Labor & Commerce.

    3/11/2025House

  18. Third reading, passed; yeas, 82; nays, 13; absent, 0; excused, 3.

    3/7/2025House

  19. Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.

    3/7/2025House

  20. Floor amendment(s) adopted.

    3/7/2025House

  21. Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading.

    3/5/2025House

  22. Referred to Rules 2 Review.

    1/24/2025House

  23. LAWS - Executive action taken by committee.

    1/22/2025House

  24. Minority; do not pass.

    1/22/2025House

  25. Minority; without recommendation.

    1/22/2025House

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