Expanding access to records for joint labor management committees for the purposes of enforcing prevailing wage laws.



ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5701

State of Washington

69th Legislature

2025 Regular Session

By Senate Labor & Commerce (originally sponsored by Senators Ramos, Hasegawa, Nobles, and Valdez)

READ FIRST TIME 02/21/25.

AN ACT Relating to expanding access to records for the purposes of enforcing 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.