H-1598.1
SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1821
State of Washington
69th Legislature
2025 Regular Session
By House Labor & Workplace Standards (originally sponsored by Representatives Cortes, Stonier, Doglio, Berry, Parshley, Street, Obras, Ormsby, Macri, Fosse, Scott, and Pollet)
READ FIRST TIME 02/21/25.
AN ACT Relating to expanding the definition of "interested party" for the purposes of prevailing wage laws; amending RCW 39.12.010 , 39.12.010 , and 39.12.120 ; providing an effective date; and providing an expiration date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 39.12.010 and 2019 c 242 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) The "prevailing rate of wage" is the rate of hourly wage, usual benefits, and overtime paid in the locality, as hereinafter defined, to the majority of workers, laborers, or mechanics, in the same trade or occupation. In the event that there is not a majority in the same trade or occupation paid at the same rate, then the average rate of hourly wage and overtime paid to such laborers, workers, or mechanics in the same trade or occupation is the prevailing rate. If the wage paid by any contractor or subcontractor to laborers, workers, or mechanics on any public work is based on some period of time other than an hour, the hourly wage is mathematically determined by the number of hours worked in such period of time.