CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SENATE BILL 5492

Chapter 126, Laws of 2009

61st Legislature
2009 Regular Session



COMMERCIAL NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS--ARBITRATION



EFFECTIVE DATE: 07/26/09

Passed by the Senate March 5, 2009
  YEAS 33   NAYS 15

BRAD OWEN
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President of the Senate
Passed by the House April 8, 2009
  YEAS 64   NAYS 34

FRANK CHOPP
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Speaker of the House of Representatives


 
CERTIFICATE

I, Thomas Hoemann, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5492 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

THOMAS HOEMANN
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Secretary
Approved April 17, 2009, 3:24 p.m.








CHRISTINE GREGOIRE
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Governor of the State of Washington
 
FILED
April 20, 2009







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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SENATE BILL 5492
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Passed Legislature - 2009 Regular Session
State of Washington61st Legislature2009 Regular Session

By Senators Marr, Swecker, Kohl-Welles, Benton, Keiser, and Franklin

Read first time 01/23/09.   Referred to Committee on Labor, Commerce & Consumer Protection.



     AN ACT Relating to applying RCW 41.56.430 through 41.56.490 to employees working under a site certificate issued under chapter 80.50 RCW; and adding a new section to chapter 41.56 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   A new section is added to chapter 41.56 RCW to read as follows:
     (1) In order to assure the uninterrupted and dedicated service of employees employed by employees of operators of certain commercial nuclear plants, the provisions of RCW 41.56.430 through 41.56.470, 41.56.480, and 41.56.490 shall apply to the operating and maintenance employees of a joint operating agency as defined in RCW 43.52.250 who are employed at a commercial nuclear power plant operating under a site certificate issued under chapter 80.50 RCW, except as provided in subsection (2) of this section.
     (2) In making its determination, the arbitration panel shall take into consideration the following factors:
     (a) The constitutional and statutory authority of the employer;
     (b) Stipulations of the parties;
     (c) A comparison of the wages, benefits, hours of work, and working conditions of the personnel involved in the proceeding with those of like personnel in relevant Washington labor markets. For classifications not found in Washington, the comparison shall be made with similar personnel in the states of California and Arizona, taking into account the relative differences in the cost of living;
     (d) Economic indices, fiscal constraints, relative differences in the cost of living, and similar factors determined by the arbitration panel to be pertinent to the case;
     (e) Other factors, not confined to the factors under (a) through (d) of this subsection, that are normally or traditionally taken into consideration in the determination of wages, benefits, hours of work, and working conditions.


         Passed by the Senate March 5, 2009.
         Passed by the House April 8, 2009.
         Approved by the Governor April 17, 2009.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 20, 2009.