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Votes at a glance: committee reports seven bills out with due-pass recommendations
Summary
During Friday’s executive session the House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee moved several bills out with due-pass recommendations. Tally, short description and committee vote for each bill are listed below.
The House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee took executive-session action Friday and reported several Senate bills out of committee with due-pass recommendations. Below are the bills the committee acted on, a short description drawn from staff briefings, and the committee vote recorded in the transcript.
Votes at a glance
- Substitute Senate Bill 5040 — "Interest arbitration for law enforcement officers in small towns, cities, counties and municipal airports." Reported out with a due-pass recommendation. Roll-call: 6 ayes, 3 nays. (Ayes: Berry, Fosse, Scott, Bernofsky, Opress, Ortiz Self; Nays: Schmidt, Ybarra, McIntyre.)
- Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 5041 — "Unemployment insurance benefits for workers unemployed due to strike; up to 12 weeks from 2026–2035; removes certain disqualifications; multiple proposed amendments considered and failed." Reported out with a due-pass recommendation. Roll-call: 6 ayes, 3 nays. (Ayes: Berry, Fosse, Scott, Bernofsky, Opress, Ortiz Self; Nays: Schmidt, Ybarra, McIntyre.)
- Substitute Senate Bill 5104 — "Prohibits employers from threatening an employee’s or family member’s immigration status to deter protected activity." Reported out with a due-pass recommendation. Roll-call: 6 ayes, 3 nays. (Ayes: Berry, Fosse, Scott, Bernofsky, Opress, Ortiz Self; Nays: Schmidt, Ybarra, McIntyre.)
- Substitute Senate Bill 5191 — "Specifies employer status for dock workers for paid family and medical leave purposes." Reported out with a due-pass recommendation. Roll-call: 9 ayes, 0 nays.
- Senate Bill 5435 — "Reorganizes public employees collective bargaining statute and adds subchapter headings (technical reorganization)." Reported out with a due-pass recommendation. Roll-call: 9 ayes, 0 nays.
- Senate Bill 5463 — "Extends duty of good faith and fair dealing to all workers' compensation self-insured employers and third-party administrators." Reported out with a due-pass recommendation. Roll-call: 6 ayes, 3 nays. (Ayes: Berry, Fosse, Scott, Bernofsky, Opress, Ortiz Self; Nays: Schmidt, Ybarra, McIntyre.)
- Substitute Senate Bill 5501 — "Prohibits employers from requiring a driver's license as a condition of employment or posting that a driver's license is required." Reported out with a due-pass recommendation. Roll-call: 7 ayes, 2 nays. (Ayes: Berry, Fossey, Scott, Schmidt, Bernofsky, Opress, Ortiz Self; Nays: Ybarra, McIntyre.)
Notes on procedure and record
- Each bill was moved and seconded by members of the committee; Vice Chair Scott moved several of the motions. Some bills were the subject of amendments that were considered and rejected in committee (notably SB 5041). Committee staff recorded roll-call votes for each final passage motion and announced the tallies in the hearing record.
- No committee action was recorded for substitute Senate Bill 5503 (PERC changes) during the executive session; that bill was the subject of a public hearing earlier the same day and stakeholders reported ongoing negotiations about draft language.
Sources: House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee staff briefings, sponsor remarks, roll-call tallies recorded in the committee transcript.
