BILL · 2019–20 SESSION

SB 5698: High hazard facilities

Ensuring for a skilled and trained workforce in high hazard facilities.

Summary

Requires owners and operators of facilities that are engaged in petroleum refining or petrochemical manufacturing to require their contractors and subcontractors to use a skilled and trained workforce to perform onsite work.
Defines a skilled and trained workforce as a workforce where all the workers are registered apprentices or skilled journeypersons and the workforce meets certain apprenticeship graduation requirements.
Requires the Department of Labor and Industries to approve a curriculum for approved advanced safety training at high hazard facilities.

From the Senate Bill Report (Orig.) (SB 5698), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to ensuring for a skilled and trained workforce in high hazard facilities;

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

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

SB 5698 (2025–26) Municipal gas utilities/CCA · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5698 (2023–24) State cactus · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5698 (2021–22) Plan 1 retiree COLAs · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5698 (2017–18) Cannabis health. beauty aids · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5698 (2015–16) Food processing tax prefs · Did not pass · stalled on the Senate floor
SB 5698 (2013–14) Disabled LEOFF plan2 members · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5698 (2011–12) Ferry system funds/tax exemp · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5698 (2009–10) Soil and wetland science · Did not pass · passed Senate, stalled in House