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BOLI defends backlog hires; committee presses alternatives to cutting firefighter apprenticeship funding

Interim Joint Ways and Means Subcommittee on Transportation and Economic Development · November 18, 2025
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Summary

The Bureau of Labor and Industries reported progress hiring intake staff to clear civil‑rights and wage/hour backlogs and proposed a general‑fund reduction that would shrink firefighter apprenticeship pass‑through funding; legislators asked BOLI for alternatives and warned about workforce impacts.

Commissioner Christina Stevenson of the Bureau of Labor and Industries briefed the subcommittee on BOLI’s budget and proposed reduction options. Stevenson said BOLI’s biennial budget is relatively small (about $80 million total; roughly $35 million general fund) and that the agency has been “lean.” She reported progress on hiring intake staff funded in the…

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