BILL · 2003–04 SESSION

SB 6536: Indv home care providers

Clarifying that individual providers of home care are nonstate employees.

Summary

  • It is clarified that an individual provider is not to be considered, for any purpose, an employee of Washington State, an area agency on aging, or any other public agency. It is expressly stated that the collective bargaining law governs the collective bargaining relationship, not the employment relationship, between the parties.

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Did not pass Did not pass · stalled on the Senate floor
  1. IntroducedJan 22, 2004
  2. Out of committeeFeb 6, 2004
  3. Passed Senatestopped here
  4. Passed House
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Alex Deccio (R-14)
Introduced
January 22, 2004 in the Senate
Last action
March 1, 2004
Requested by
Other
Companion bill
HB 2463

AN ACT Relating to further reaffirmation and clarification of individual providers' work roles as nonstate employees, excluding these workers from specific provisions under Title 41 RCW;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Alex Deccio (R-14)

2 co-sponsors (1 Democrat, 1 Republican)

Votes

No recorded floor votes.

History

  1. Senate Rules "X" file.
  2. Made eligible to be placed on second reading.
  3. HEA - Majority; do pass.
  4. Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
  5. First reading, referred to Health & Long-Term Care.

SB 6536 in other sessions

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