S-4268.1S-0083.1 SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5379 State of Washington 69th Legislature 20262025 Regular Session By Senate Labor & Commerce (originally sponsored by Senators Stanford, MacEwen, Bateman, Frame, Hasegawa, Nobles, Orwall, and Shewmake)Shewmake READRead FIRSTfirst TIMEtime 02/04/26.01/20/25.

Referred to Committee on Labor & Commerce.

and reenacting and amending RCW 41.80.200.

RCW 41.80.200 and 20252020 c 38789 s 4 and 2025 c 162 s 1 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows:

(2) This section applies only to employees covered by chapter 41.06 RCW working for the department of corrections or the parks and recreation commission, except confidential employees as defined in RCW 41.80.00541.80.005((, members of the Washington management service,)) and internal auditors.

1 SSBSB 5379 (3) Negotiations between the employer and the exclusive bargaining representative of a unit of employees shall be commenced at least five months before submission of the budget to the legislature.

The parties will select an arbitrator by mutual agreement,agreement or by alternatively striking names from a regional list of seven qualified arbitrators provided by the federal mediation and conciliation service,service. or, with the consent of the parties, the American arbitration association.

2 SSBSB 5379 schedule of at least five negotiation dates, absent an agreement to the contrary.

3 SSBSB 5379 conditions of employment of like personnel of like state government employers of similar size in the western United States;

4 SSBSB 5379 (9) Subject to the provisions of this section, the parties shall follow the commission's procedures for interest arbitration.

5 SSBSB 5379