CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

HOUSE BILL 1290

Chapter 251, Laws of 2011

62nd Legislature
2011 Regular Session



HEALTH CARE EMPLOYEES--MANDATORY OVERTIME--PROHIBITION



EFFECTIVE DATE: 07/22/11

Passed by the House April 13, 2011
  Yeas 96   Nays 0

FRANK CHOPP
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Speaker of the House of Representatives


Passed by the Senate April 8, 2011
  Yeas 47   Nays 1


BRAD OWEN
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President of the Senate
 
CERTIFICATE

I, Barbara Baker, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1290 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.


BARBARA BAKER
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Chief Clerk
Approved May 5, 2011, 9:48 a.m.








CHRISTINE GREGOIRE
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Governor of the State of Washington
 
FILED
May 6, 2011







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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HOUSE BILL 1290
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AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

Passed Legislature - 2011 Regular Session
State of Washington62nd Legislature2011 Regular Session

By Representatives Green, Cody, Van De Wege, Sells, Kenney, and Reykdal

Read first time 01/18/11.   Referred to Committee on Labor & Workforce Development.



     AN ACT Relating to the prohibition on mandatory overtime for certain health care employees; amending RCW 49.28.130; and creating a new section.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 49.28.130 and 2002 c 112 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
     The definitions in this section apply throughout this section and RCW 49.28.140 and 49.28.150 unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
     (1) "Employee" means a licensed practical nurse or a registered nurse licensed under chapter 18.79 RCW employed by a health care facility who is involved in direct patient care activities or clinical services and receives an hourly wage.
     (2) "Employer" means an individual, partnership, association, corporation, the state ((institution)), a political subdivision of the state, or person or group of persons, acting directly or indirectly in the interest of a health care facility.
     (3)(a) "Health care facility" means the following facilities, or any part of the facility, including such facilities if owned and operated by a political subdivision or instrumentality of the state, that operate((s)) on a twenty-four hours per day, seven days per week basis:
     (i) Hospices licensed under chapter 70.127 RCW((,));
     (ii) H
ospitals licensed under chapter 70.41 RCW((,));
     (iii) R
ural health care facilities as defined in RCW 70.175.020((, and));
     (iv) P
sychiatric hospitals licensed under chapter 71.12 RCW((, and includes such facilities if owned and operated by a political subdivision or instrumentality of the state)); or
     (v) Facilities owned and operated by the department of corrections or by a governing unit as defined in RCW 70.48.020 in a correctional institution as defined in RCW 9.94.049 that provide health care services to inmates as defined in RCW 72.09.015
.
     (b) If a nursing home regulated under chapter 18.51 RCW or a home health agency regulated under chapter 70.127 RCW is operating under the license of a health care facility, the nursing home or home health agency is considered part of the health care facility for the purposes of this subsection.
     (4) "Overtime" means the hours worked in excess of an agreed upon, predetermined, regularly scheduled shift within a twenty-four hour period not to exceed twelve hours in a twenty-four hour period or eighty hours in a consecutive fourteen-day period.
     (5) "On-call time" means time spent by an employee who is not working on the premises of the place of employment but who is compensated for availability or who, as a condition of employment, has agreed to be available to return to the premises of the place of employment on short notice if the need arises.
     (6) "Reasonable efforts" means that the employer, to the extent reasonably possible, does all of the following but is unable to obtain staffing coverage:
     (a) Seeks individuals to volunteer to work extra time from all available qualified staff who are working;
     (b) Contacts qualified employees who have made themselves available to work extra time;
     (c) Seeks the use of per diem staff; and
     (d) Seeks personnel from a contracted temporary agency when such staffing is permitted by law or an applicable collective bargaining agreement, and when the employer regularly uses a contracted temporary agency.
     (7) "Unforeseeable emergent circumstance" means (a) any unforeseen declared national, state, or municipal emergency; (b) when a health care facility disaster plan is activated; or (c) any unforeseen disaster or other catastrophic event which substantially affects or increases the need for health care services.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2   If specific funding for the purposes of this act, referencing this act by bill or chapter number, is not provided by June 30, 2011, in the omnibus appropriations act, this act is null and void.


         Passed by the House April 13, 2011.
         Passed by the Senate April 8, 2011.
         Approved by the Governor May 5, 2011.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 6, 2011.