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                                                     SENATE BILL 5357

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State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

By Senators Pelz, Sutherland, Jesernig, Snyder, Gaspard, Fraser, Moore and Quigley

Read first time 01/25/93.  Referred to Committee on Education.

Requiring contractors for school employment service contracts to provide health care and retirement benefits commensurate with those provided for classified employees providing similar services.

          AN ACT Relating to employment benefits for employees under school service contracts; and adding a new section to Title 28A RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to Title 28A RCW to read as follows:

          (1) Each contract for the purchase of services by a school district board of directors or an educational service district superintendent executed after the effective date of this section shall require the contractor to provide health care and retirement benefits to all employees who are performing services under the contract that were previously performed by classified school employees.  The contract shall require the health care and retirement benefits to be commensurate with the health care and retirement benefits provided by the school district or educational service district to classified employees performing services similar to those services being performed under the contract.

          (2) This section does not apply to:

          (a) Temporary, nonongoing, or nonrecurring service contracts; or

          (b) Contracts for services previously performed by employees in director/supervisor, professional, and technical positions.

          (3) For the purposes of subsection (2) of this section:

          (a) "Director/supervisor position" means a position in which an employee directs staff members and manages a function, a program, or a support service.

          (b) "Professional position" means a position for which an employee is required to have a high degree of knowledge and skills acquired through a baccalaureate degree or its equivalent.

          (c) "Technical position" means a position for which an employee is required to have a combination of knowledge and skills that can be obtained through approximately two years of posthigh school education, such as from a community or technical college, or by on-the-job training.

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