{"id":"AGY-ST-LABOR-WORKPLACE-008","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Washington; Legislature (Health Emergency Labor Standards Act, administered by the Department of Labor and Industries)","state":"WA","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"ST-LABOR-WORKPLACE","eco":"","issuer":"Washington State Legislature; signed by Governor Inslee May 11, 2021","authority":"Wash. Const. art. II; ch. 251, Laws of 2021","instrument":"Washington State Legislature bill summary, SB 5115 (2021-22), Establishing health emergency labor standards","title":"ESSB 5115, Health Emergency Labor Standards Act: occupational-disease presumption for frontline employees during a public health emergency; employer notification of potential exposure within one business day; outbreak reporting to L\u0026I for employers of 50 or more; anti-discrimination for high-risk employees seeking accommodation","dateIssued":"2021-05-11","effective":"2021-05-11 (\u0027May 11 Governor signed. Effective date 5/11/2021.\u0027)","end":"Permanent (operative during declared public health emergencies)","startDate":"2021-05-11","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["EMP","QUAR","OTHER"],"addressees":["every Washington employer; frontline employers (health care, first response, food processing, grocery, agriculture, transit, corrections, education, hospitality) for the presumption"],"clause":"SB 5115 - 2021-22. Establishing health emergency labor standards.... May 11 Governor signed. Effective date 5/11/2021.","enforcement":"L\u0026I enforcement under RCW 49.17 (see the implementing rule, Exs. 061 and 080); workers\u0027 compensation adjudication under RCW 51.32.181","functions":["EMP","HR (exposure notification, outbreak reporting, accommodation of high-risk workers)","WF (compensable removal of infected frontline workers)","OP"],"notes":"The session-law PDF could not be retrieved (lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov unreachable from this network and not archived); the Legislature\u0027s own bill history page is saved as the record of enactment. The operative rule text is verified primary in Ex. 080.","sourceUrl":"https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=5115\u0026Year=2021","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210923071110/https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=5115\u0026Year=2021","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":132661,"grade":"secondary","character":"","description":"","collection":"AGY-ST-LABOR-WORKPLACE","url":"/library/AGY-ST-LABOR-WORKPLACE-008","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AGY-ST-LABOR-WORKPLACE-008","citation":"Washington State Legislature; signed by Governor Inslee May 11, 2021, Washington State Legislature bill summary, SB 5115 (2021-22), Establishing health emergency labor standards (May 11, 2021) (Ex. AGY-ST-LABOR-WORKPLACE-008)","stateName":"Washington","related":["DUT-WA-010"]}