BILL · 2025–26 SESSION
SB 5487: Agricultural overtime
Authorizing agricultural employers to select 12 weeks a year to employ workers for up to 50 hours a week before overtime applies.
Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
- IntroducedJan 24, 2025
- Out of committeestopped here
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- Governor
- Law
- Prime sponsor
- Curtis King (R-14)
- Introduced
- January 24, 2025 in the Senate
- Last action
- January 12, 2026
- Companion bill
- HB 1597
- Budget
- Has a fiscal note
AN ACT Relating to authorizing an agricultural employer to select any 12 weeks in a calendar year as special circumstance weeks for labor demand, during which in each of the selected 12 weeks, the agricultural employer may employ agricultural employees for up to 50 hours before the requirement to pay overtime applies under RCW 49.46.130;
Sponsors
Prime sponsor: Curtis King (R-14)
8 co-sponsors (1 Democrat, 7 Republicans)
Votes
No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.
History
- By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
- First reading, referred to Labor & Commerce.
SB 5487 in other sessions
Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.
- SB 5487 (2023–24) Parking at rest areas
- SB 5487 (2021–22) School consolid. incentives
- SB 5487 (2019–20) Personal caregiver access
- SB 5487 (2017–18) Retired teachers as mentors
- SB 5487 (2015–16) Higher ed programs/UW, WSU
- SB 5487 (2013–14) Persistent offenders
- SB 5487 (2011–12) Eggs and egg products
- SB 5487 (2009–10) Employee contract nonrenewal