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Senate bill would raise threshold for plumbing-license suspensions, remove advisory-board recommendation
Summary
ESSB 6197 would change credential-suspension rules for plumbers: increase the trigger from three infractions in three years to five in five years, eliminate the advisory board recommendation step, and require written suspension orders and L&I enforcement updates; stakeholders urged clarifying language on prior infractions.
Chair Berry opened the public hearing on substitute Senate Bill 6197, which would alter how the Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) suspends plumber and plumbing-contractor credentials. Jim Morishima, staff to the committee, told members the bill raises the number of infractions needed for suspension from three in a 36-month period to five in a 60-month period and removes the provision that suspensions must be recommended by the plumbers advisory board. The bill also requires…
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