BILL · 2025–26 SESSION
SB 5039: DOC WMS employee arbitration
Removing the exclusion from interest arbitration of Washington management service employees at the department of corrections.
Summary
- Includes Washington Management Service members in the Department of Corrections employees eligible for interest arbitration.
From the Senate Bill Report (SB 5039), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗
Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
- IntroducedJan 13, 2025
- Out of committeestopped here
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- Governor
- Law
- Prime sponsor
- Steve Conway (D-29)
- Introduced
- January 13, 2025 in the Senate
- Last action
- January 12, 2026
- Companion bill
- HB 1068
- Budget
- Has a fiscal note
AN ACT Relating to removing the exclusion from interest arbitration of Washington management service employees at the department of corrections;
Sponsors
Prime sponsor: Steve Conway (D-29)
7 co-sponsors (7 Democrats, 0 Republicans)
Votes
No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.
History
- By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
- Referred to Ways & Means.
- Minority; do not pass.
- And refer to Ways & Means.
- LC - Majority; do pass.
- First reading, referred to Labor & Commerce.
- Prefiled for introduction.
SB 5039 in other sessions
Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.
- SB 5039 (2023–24) Wildfires/electric utilities
- SB 5039 (2021–22) Gubernatorial emergencies
- SB 5039 (2019–20) Competency restoration/risk
- SB 5039 (2017–18) Electronic legal material
- SB 5039 (2015–16) Clemency and pardons board
- SB 5039 (2013–14) Basic education/revenues
- SB 5039 (2011–12) Tobacco cessation treatment
- SB 5039 (2009–10) Forensic investigations