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BILL · 2005–06 SESSION · LATEST VERSION SHB 1371

HB 1371: Nurse mandatory overtime

Concerning overtime requirements for health care facility employees.

Summary

  • Adds various public facilities, including state hospitals, veterans' homes, residential habilitation centers, and correctional facilities, to the health care facilities prohibited from requiring overtime from their nursing staff.
  • Allows the use of mandatory overtime for patient care in progress as long as the facility made reasonable efforts to avoid overtime work.

From the House Bill Report (HB 1371), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedJan 21, 2005
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Dawn Morrell (D-25)
Introduced
January 21, 2005 in the House
Last action
January 26, 2006
Companion bill
SB 5368
Versions
HB 1371, SHB 1371

AN ACT Relating to revising the mandatory overtime prohibition applicable to nurses, but only with respect to increasing the types of health care facilities that are subject to the prohibition from requiring nurses to perform overtime work and limiting the exceptions from the prohibition related to prescheduled on-call time and completion of patient care procedures;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Dawn Morrell (D-25)

14 co-sponsors (13 Democrats, 1 Republican)

Steve Conway D-29Jim Moeller D-49Bob Hasegawa D-11Eileen Cody D-34Tami Green D-28Tom Campbell R-2John McCoy D-38Sherry Appleton D-23Geoff Simpson D-47Zack Hudgins D-11Mike Sells D-38Brendan Williams D-22Phyllis Gutierrez Kenney D-46Maralyn Chase D-32

Votes

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

History

  1. Referred to Appropriations. (SHB 1371)
  2. Referred to Appropriations.
  3. CL - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. (SHB 1371)
  4. Minority; do not pass. (SHB 1371)
  5. CL - Executive action taken by committee.
  6. Minority; do not pass.
  7. CL - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
  8. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  9. First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor.

HB 1371 in other sessions

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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