---
type: "Bill"
title: "Removing the exclusion from interest arbitration of Washington management service employees at the department of corrections."
description: "Removing the exclusion from interest arbitration of Washington management service employees at the department of corrections."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "HB 1068"
citation: "Washington HB 1068 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Doglio"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 37
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-12-13"
last_action: "2025-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/602d0b40-cc92-41f4-8a50-41f6695c5866"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=1068&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "fc0da8c6a0fb5bdd839f1bb2c3c5c43db5ebfe149a03595492196d180d302945"
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 HB 1068 (2025-2026) — Removing the exclusion from interest arbitration of Washington management service employees at the department of corrections.

## 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/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Bills/1068.htm)
2. **Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1068.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#8) — **72–25** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#19) — **36–12** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Doglio — primary (person)
- Berry — cosponsor (person)
- Bronoske — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Fosse — cosponsor (person)
- Goodman — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Leavitt — cosponsor (person)
- Lekanoff — cosponsor (person)
- Nance — cosponsor (person)
- Obras — cosponsor (person)
- Ormsby — cosponsor (person)
- Ramel — cosponsor (person)
- Reed — cosponsor (person)
- Reeves — cosponsor (person)
- Ryu — cosponsor (person)
- Salahuddin — cosponsor (person)
- Scott — cosponsor (person)
- Street — cosponsor (person)
- Tharinger — cosponsor (person)
- Timmons — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-13** Prefiled for introduction. `filing`
- **2025-01-13** First reading, referred to Labor & Workplace Standards. `reading-1`
- **2025-01-17** Public hearing in the House Committee on Labor & Workplace Standards at 10:30 AM.
- **2025-01-29** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Labor & Workplace Standards at 8:00 AM.
- **2025-01-29** LAWS - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-29** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-01-31** Referred to Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10** Public hearing in the House Committee on Appropriations at 4:00 PM.
- **2025-02-13** Executive action taken in the House Committee on Appropriations at 4:00 PM.
- **2025-02-13** APP - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-13** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-02-13** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-02-18** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-28** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2025-03-03** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-03** Third reading, passed; yeas, 72; nays, 25; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-05** First reading, referred to Labor & Commerce. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-21** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Labor & Commerce at 8:00 AM.
- **2025-03-21** LC - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-21** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-03-21** And refer to Ways & Means. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Referred to Ways & Means. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-04-08** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-04-08** WM - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-08** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-04-08** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-04-08** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2025-04-11** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2025-04-15** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-15** Third reading, passed; yeas, 36; nays, 12; absent, 0; excused, 1. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-16** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-18** President signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-21** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-25** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-25** Chapter 162, 2025 Laws. `became-law`
- **2025-04-25** Effective date 7/27/2025. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/602d0b40-cc92-41f4-8a50-41f6695c5866`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).