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Bill would accept some out‑of‑state experience for electrical-inspector qualifications; cities and unions split
Summary
Senate Bill 5265 would allow certain out-of-state electrical experience to count toward the minimum requirements for electrical inspectors in Washington. City building officials and local governments supported the change to expand the candidate pool; union witnesses opposed it, arguing Washington standards and local labor pools should be used.
Senate Bill 5265 would expand the kinds of experience that qualify a person to be an electrical inspector in Washington to include certain out‑of‑state journey‑level experience after licensure in another state.
Committee staff summarized the bill as an expansion of minimum inspector qualifications to broaden the candidate pool. Jarrett Sackstaff explained that to qualify an individual may hold a journeyman electrician certificate and have eight years of experience in the trade, with four years occurring after obtaining a journeyman license from another state electrical…
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