S-2845               _______________________________________________

                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 6096

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1989 Regular Session

By Senators Pullen, Vognild and Warnke

Read first time 4/4/89 and referred to Committee on  Economic Development & Labor.

AN ACT Relating to communication personnel; and amending RCW 41.56.495.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 1, chapter 150, Laws of 1985 as amended by section 3, chapter 110, Laws of 1988 and RCW 41.56.495 are each amended to read as follows:

          In addition to the classes of employees listed in RCW 41.56.030(7), the provisions of RCW 41.56.430 through 41.56.490 shall also be applicable to the several classes of advanced life support technicians that are defined under RCW 18.71.200, who are employed by  public employers, other than public hospital districts, to communication personnel involved in police or medical dispatching or call receiving who are employed by a city with a population of fifteen thousand or more or by the governing body of any county of the second class or larger, and to communication personnel involved in fire dispatching or call receiving.