CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                        SENATE BILL 5502

 

 

                   Chapter 256, Laws of 1999

 

 

                        56th Legislature

                      1999 Regular Session

 

 

MARINE EMPLOYEES--SALARY SURVEY

 

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/25/99

Passed by the Senate April 20, 1999

  YEAS 46   NAYS 0

 

 

               BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

 

Passed by the House April 12, 1999

  YEAS 94   NAYS 0

             CERTIFICATE

 

I, Tony M. Cook, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is  SENATE BILL 5502 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

             CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

            TONY M. COOK

                            Secretary

 

 

 

              FRANK CHOPP

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

 

 

Approved May 10, 1999 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.  

                                FILED          

 

 

             May 10, 1999 - 4:46 p.m.

 

 

 

              GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

                 Secretary of State

                 State of Washington


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                         SENATE BILL 5502

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                      AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

 

             Passed Legislature - 1999 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

 

By Senator Haugen; by request of Marine Employees' Commission

 

Read first time 01/25/1999.  Referred to Committee on Transportation.

Reporting the salary survey of ferry employees. 


    AN ACT Relating to a salary survey report by the marine employees' commission; amending RCW 47.64.220; adding a new section to chapter 42.17 RCW; and creating a new section.

 

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

 

    Sec. 1.  RCW 47.64.220 and 1989 c 327 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) Prior to collective bargaining, the marine employees' commission shall conduct a salary survey.  The results of the survey shall be published in a report which shall be a public document comparing wages, hours, employee benefits, and conditions of employment of involved ferry employees with those of public and private sector employees in states along the west coast of the United States, including Alaska, and in British Columbia doing directly comparable but not necessarily identical work, giving consideration to factors peculiar to the area and the classifications involved.  Such survey report shall be for the purpose of disclosing generally prevailing levels of compensation, benefits, and conditions of employment.  It shall be used to guide generally but not to define or limit collective bargaining between the parties.  The commission shall make such other findings of fact as the parties may request during bargaining or impasse.

    (2) Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section, salary and employee benefit information collected from private employers that identifies a specific employer with the salary and employee benefit rates which that employer pays to its employees is not subject to public disclosure under chapter 42.17 RCW.

    (3) A person or entity, having reason to believe that the salary survey results are inaccurate, may submit a petition to the state auditor requesting an audit of the data upon which the salary survey results are based.  The state auditor shall review and analyze all data collected for the salary survey, including proprietary information, but is prohibited from disclosing the salary survey data to any other person or entity, except by court order.

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 42.17 RCW to read as follows:

    Salary and employee benefit information collected under RCW 47.64.220(1) and described in RCW 47.64.220(2) is exempt from disclosure under this chapter except as provided in RCW 47.64.220.

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 3.  Section 1, chapter . . ., Laws of 1999 (section 1 of this act) is a clarification of existing law and applies retroactively.


    Passed the Senate April 20, 1999.

    Passed the House April 12, 1999.

Approved by the Governor May 10, 1999.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 10, 1999.