H-1193.1
SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1128
State of Washington
69th Legislature
2025 Regular Session
By House Labor & Workplace Standards (originally sponsored by Representatives Fosse, Stonier, Berry, Bronoske, Davis, Taylor, Wylie, Nance, Pollet, Ormsby, Scott, Mena, Doglio, Alvarado, Berg, Peterson, Goodman, Reeves, Reed, Parshley, Stearns, Simmons, Cortes, Ramel, Ryu, Timmons, Hackney, Kloba, Callan, Farivar, Ortiz-Self, Paul, Morgan, Shavers, Macri, Obras, Rule, Fey, Lekanoff, Bergquist, Salahuddin, Bernbaum, and Hill)
READ FIRST TIME 02/12/25.
AN ACT Relating to establishing a child care workforce standards board; and adding a new chapter to Title 49 RCW.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. (1) The legislature finds and declares the following:
(a) High quality child care and early learning enable parents to go to work, keeping the economy going at all levels and returning six dollars in value for every one dollar invested. High quality early learning services help prepare children for success in school and in life. A high quality child care and early learning system depends on a thriving, healthy, and competitively compensated workforce. Current conditions for child care workers have resulted in lack of access, unaffordable prices, and poorer outcomes for children and families;