---
type: "Bill"
title: "Granting interest arbitration to certain public safety telecommunicators."
description: "Granting interest arbitration to certain public safety telecommunicators."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "SB 5808"
citation: "Washington SB 5808 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Van De Wege"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-12-06"
last_action: "2024-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a8a95ed9-7063-49df-90bb-612cbb520750"
source_url: "http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=5808&year=2023"
source_hash: "6f58f42c7d1306473d91b2e90631158a24d67494c65e4930f76b4b2b2ad8dfbb"
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 5808 (2023-2024) — Granting interest arbitration to certain public safety telecommunicators.

## 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/2023-24/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5808.htm)
2. **Substitute Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5808-S.htm)
3. **Substitute Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2023-24/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5808-S.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#59) — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#4) — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Van De Wege — primary (person)
- Conway — cosponsor (person)
- Dhingra — cosponsor (person)
- Hasegawa — cosponsor (person)
- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- Keiser — cosponsor (person)
- Kuderer — cosponsor (person)
- Liias — cosponsor (person)
- Lovick — cosponsor (person)
- Mullet — cosponsor (person)
- Nguyen — cosponsor (person)
- Nobles — cosponsor (person)
- Randall — cosponsor (person)
- Salomon — cosponsor (person)
- Shewmake — cosponsor (person)
- Stanford — cosponsor (person)
- Trudeau — cosponsor (person)
- Valdez — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-12-06** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
- **2024-01-08** First reading, referred to Labor & Commerce. `reading-1`
- **2024-01-09** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Labor & Commerce at 10:30 AM.
- **2024-01-16** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Labor & Commerce at 10:30 AM.
- **2024-01-16** LC - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. `substitution`
- **2024-01-16** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2024-01-18** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2024-01-24** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2024-01-31** 1st substitute bill substituted (LC 24). `substitution`
- **2024-01-31** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-01-31** Third reading, passed; yeas, 48; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2024-02-02** First reading, referred to Labor & Workplace Standards. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-14** Public hearing in the House Committee on Labor & Workplace Standards at 8:00 AM.
- **2024-02-16** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Labor & Workplace Standards at 10:30 AM.
- **2024-02-16** LAWS - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-20** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2024-02-29** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-02-29** Third reading, passed; yeas, 92; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 6. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-06** President signed. `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2024-03-08** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-15** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-15** Chapter 124, 2024 Laws. `became-law`
- **2024-03-15** Effective date 6/6/2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a8a95ed9-7063-49df-90bb-612cbb520750`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).