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                                         SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL NO. 3526

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor (originally sponsored by Senators Talmadge, Kreidler and Halsan)

Read first time 3/8/85.

AN ACT Relating to collective bargaining for correctional officers; amending RCW 41.56.030; and making an appropriation.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

        Sec. 1.  Section 3, chapter 108, Laws of 1967 ex. sess. as last amended by section 1, chapter 150, Laws of 1984 and RCW 41.56.030 are each amended to read as follows:

          As used in this chapter:

          (1) "Public employer" means any officer, board, commission, council, or other person or body acting on behalf of any public body governed by this chapter as designated by RCW 41.56.020, or any subdivision of such public body.

          (2) "Public employee" means any employee of a public employer except any person (a) elected by popular vote, or (b) appointed to office pursuant to statute, ordinance or resolution for a specified term of office by the executive head or body of the public employer, or (c) whose duties as deputy, administrative assistant or secretary necessarily imply a confidential relationship to the executive head or body of the applicable bargaining unit, or any person elected by popular vote or appointed to office pursuant to statute, ordinance or resolution for a specified term of office by the executive head or body of the public employer.

          (3) "Bargaining representative" means any lawful organization which has as one of its primary purposes the representation of employees in their employment relations with employers.

          (4) "Collective bargaining" means the performance of the mutual obligations of the public employer and the exclusive bargaining representative to meet at reasonable times, to confer and negotiate in good faith, and to execute a written agreement with respect to grievance procedures and collective negotiations on personnel matters, including wages, hours and working conditions, which may be peculiar to an appropriate bargaining unit of such public employer, except that by such obligation neither party shall be compelled to agree to a proposal or be required to make a concession unless otherwise provided in this chapter.

          (5) "Commission" means the public employment relations commission.

          (6) "Uniformed personnel" means (a) law enforcement officers as defined in RCW 41.26.030 as now or hereafter amended, of cities with a population of fifteen thousand or more or law enforcement officers employed by the governing body of any county of the second class or larger((, or)); (b) fire fighters as that term is defined in RCW 41.26.030, as now or hereafter amended; or (c) correctional officers of cities with a population of fifteen thousand or more which employ over ten such correctional officers or correctional officers employed by the governing body of any county of the second class or larger.

(7) "Correctional officers" means persons employed in a holding facility, detention facility, or correctional facility, as defined in RCW 70.48.020, who have the responsibility for confinement of persons charged with or sentenced for a criminal offense.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.     There is appropriated from the general fund to the public employment relations commission for the biennium ending June 30, 1987, the sum of forty-nine thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to carry out the purposes of this act.