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BILL · 2025–26 SESSION · LATEST VERSION SSB 5043

SB 5043: PTSD/correctional workers

Concerning industrial insurance coverage for posttraumatic stress disorders affecting correctional facility workers.

Summary

  • Excludes certain correctional facility workers from the Department of Labor and Industries rule that claims based on mental conditions or mental disabilities caused by stress do not fall within the definition of occupational disease for industrial insurance (workers' compensation) purposes.
  • Creates a rebuttable presumption that post-traumatic stress disorder is an occupational disease under workers' compensation for certain correctional facility workers.

From the Senate Bill Report (SB 5043), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedJan 13, 2025
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed Senate
  4. Passed House
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Manka Dhingra (D-45)
Introduced
January 13, 2025 in the Senate
Last action
January 12, 2026
Companion bill
HB 1070
Budget
Has a fiscal note
Versions
SB 5043, SSB 5043

AN ACT Relating to industrial insurance coverage for posttraumatic stress disorders affecting correctional facility workers;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Manka Dhingra (D-45)

23 co-sponsors (20 Democrats, 3 Republicans)

T'wina Nobles D-28Steve Conway D-29Drew MacEwen R-35Rebecca Saldaña D-37John Lovick D-44Jesse Salomon D-32Derek Stanford D-1Keith Wagoner R-39Jeff Wilson R-19Sharon Shewmake D-42Yasmin Trudeau D-27Javier Valdez D-46Jessica Bateman D-22Marko Liias D-21Mike Chapman D-24Liz Lovelett D-40Annette Cleveland D-49Noel Frame D-36Bob Hasegawa D-11Tina Orwall D-33Vandana Slatter D-48Lisa Wellman D-41Claire Wilson D-30

Votes

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

History

  1. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status. (SSB 5043)
  2. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  3. Referred to Ways & Means. (SSB 5043)
  4. Referred to Ways & Means.
  5. LC - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. (SSB 5043)
  6. Minority; do not pass. (SSB 5043)
  7. And refer to Ways & Means. (SSB 5043)
  8. And refer to Ways & Means.
  9. Minority; do not pass.
  10. LC - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
  11. First reading, referred to Labor & Commerce.
  12. Prefiled for introduction.

SB 5043 in other sessions

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