Concerning comparison factors that must be considered in interest arbitration for correctional employees regarding wages, hours, and conditions of employment.

 H-2501.1

HOUSE BILL 2622

State of Washington

69th Legislature

2026 Regular Session

By Representatives Stuebe, Doglio, Parshley, Eslick, Fosse, Goodman, Pollet, Zahn, and Peterson

Read first time 01/22/26. Referred to Committee on Labor & Workplace Standards.

AN ACT Relating to comparison factors that must be considered in interest arbitration for correctional employees regarding wages, hours, and conditions of employment; and reenacting and amending RCW 41.80.200 .

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

Sec. 1. RCW 41.80.200 and 2025 c 387 s 4 and 2025 c 162 s 1 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows:

(1) In order to maintain dedicated and uninterrupted services to the supervision of criminal offenders that are in state correctional facilities and on community supervision, it is the legislature's intent to grant certain employees of the department of corrections interest arbitration rights as an alternative means of settling disputes.