Provides that: (1) To promote the safety of persons and the security of property, the director shall meet with interested parties to develop lists of suggested preassignment, postassignment, and postassignment refresher training by rule.

(2) All security guards licensed on or after July 1, 2005, must complete at least eight hours of preassignment training.

(3)(a) All security guards licensed on or after July 1, 2005, must complete at least eight hours of initial postassignment training that shall be administered to each security guard by their company and attested to by a department-certified trainer. Security guards licensed on or before June 30, 2006, shall receive their postassignment training before June 30, 2008; (b) security guards licensed between January 1st and June 30th of any calendar year may receive eight hours of postassignment training any time between the day following the issuance of a temporary security guard registration card with their company and June 30th of the year following initial issuance of their license by the department; (c) security guards initially licensed between July 1st and December 31st of any calendar year may receive eight hours of postassignment training at any time between the day following the issuance of a temporary security guard registration card with their company and December 31st of the year following initial issuance of their security guard license by the department.

Repeals RCW 18.170.100.