---
type: "Bill"
title: "Granting certain correctional employees binding interest arbitration."
description: "Granting certain correctional employees binding interest arbitration."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "SB 5199"
citation: "Washington SB 5199 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COLLECTIVE BARGAINING", "CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES AND JAILS", "JUVENILE COURT AND JUVENILE OFFENDERS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Keiser"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-15"
last_action: "2019-05-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e1697b6a-f395-4457-aa41-c8cb5371d872"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=5199&year=2019"
source_hash: "cbcb49872e60fd8e83406ba0f33d20562180c7b9b812da38506425244ca398b9"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wa"]
---

# Washington SB 5199 (2019-2020) — Granting certain correctional employees binding interest arbitration.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2019-20/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5199.htm)

## Votes

- Final Passage (#1) — **75–20** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#27) — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Keiser — primary (person)
- Conway — cosponsor (person)
- Das — cosponsor (person)
- Hasegawa — cosponsor (person)
- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- McCoy — cosponsor (person)
- Saldaña — cosponsor (person)
- Van De Wege — cosponsor (person)
- Wilson, C. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-01-15** First reading, referred to Labor & Commerce. `reading-1`
- **2019-02-20** LBRC - Majority; do pass.
- **2019-02-22** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2019-03-07** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- **2019-03-07** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2019-03-07** Third reading, passed; yeas, 47; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 2. `reading-3`
- **2019-03-09** First reading, referred to Labor & Workplace Standards. `reading-1`
- **2019-03-26** LAWS - Majority; do pass.
- **2019-03-26** Minority; do not pass.
- **2019-03-29** Referred to Appropriations.
- **2019-04-05** Committee relieved of further consideration.
- **2019-04-05** Referred to Rules 2 Review.
- **2019-04-09** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading.
- **2019-04-10** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.
- **2019-04-10** Third reading, passed; yeas, 75; nays, 20; absent, 0; excused, 3. `reading-3`
- **2019-04-12** President signed. `passage`
- **2019-04-25** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2019-04-25** Delivered to Governor.
- **2019-05-07** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-07** Chapter 280, 2019 Laws. `became-law`
- **2019-05-07** Effective date 7/28/2019. `became-law`
- **2019-02-19T13:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Labor & Commerce at 08:00 AM
- **2019-02-20T22:45:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the Senate Committee on Labor & Commerce at 05:45 PM
- **2019-03-21T12:00:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Labor & Workplace Standards at 08:00 AM
- **2019-03-26T19:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Labor & Workplace Standards at 03:30 PM
- **2019-04-05T17:30:00+00:00** Scheduled for public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 01:30 PM

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e1697b6a-f395-4457-aa41-c8cb5371d872`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).