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Rep. Suzanne Schmidt highlights five signed bills including electrician licensing fix and fire-district hiring change
Summary
Representative Suzanne Schmidt said five of her bills were signed into law this year, including a measure to allow certain trainee electricians to work as journeymen in residential settings while completing commercial apprenticeships, and a bill enabling fire districts to remove civil-service commissions that were impeding hires.
Representative Suzanne Schmidt (Fourth Legislative District) told Spokane County Spotlight she had five bills signed into law during the recent session. She described two in detail: a specialty-electrician licensing bill and a change affecting some fire districts’ hiring rules.
On electricians: Schmidt said 2021 licensing changes left some…
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