HB 2662-S.E - DIGEST

(DIGEST AS ENACTED)

     Provides that, upon the written authorization of an individual provider within the bargaining unit and after the certification or recognition of the bargaining unit's exclusive bargaining representative, the state as payor, but not as the employer, shall deduct from the payments to an individual provider the monthly amount of dues as certified by the secretary of the exclusive bargaining representative and shall transmit the same to the treasurer of the exclusive bargaining representative.

     Declares that, if the home care quality authority and the exclusive bargaining representative of a bargaining unit of individual providers enter into a collective bargaining agreement that:  (1) Includes a union security provision authorized in RCW 41.56.122, the state as payor, but not as the employer, shall, subject to this act, enforce the agreement by deducting from the payments to bargaining unit members the dues required for membership in the exclusive bargaining representative, or, for nonmembers thereof, a fee equivalent to the dues; or

     (2) Includes requirements for deductions of payments other than the deduction under this act, the state, as payor, but not as the employer, shall make such deductions upon written authorization of the individual provider.