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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 187

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Relating to: study of guaranteed employment grant program and making an appropriation. (FE)

Employment Workforce development department of

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill requires the Department of Workforce Development to study the creation of a job guarantee and full employment grant program. Under the program, DWD and municipalities provide grants to public and nonprofit employers in the care economy to provide certain job opportunities in positions covered by a collective bargaining unit to individuals with disabilities, heads of households with incomes that are 150 percent or less than the federal poverty line, individuals who have been unemployed for extended periods, individuals who were previously incarcerated, and individuals between 18 and 24 years old. The bill requires DWD to submit a report with the findings and recommendations.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Drake (D) , Hesselbein (D) , L. Johnson (D) , Larson (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Wirch (D)

23 cosponsors

Arney (D) , Bare (D) , Brown (D) , Clancy (D) , DeSmidt (D) , Fitzgerald (D) , Goodwin (D) , Haywood (D) , Hong (D) , Joers (D) , Kirsch (D) , Madison (D) , McCarville (D) , Miresse (D) , Moore Omokunde (D) , Phelps (D) , Prado (D) , Rivera-Wagner (D) , Roe (D) , Stubbs (D) , Taylor (D) , Tenorio (D) , Udell (D)

Full history

  1. Apr 14, 2025 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators L. Johnson, Drake, Hesselbein, Larson, Spreitzer and Wirch; cosponsored by Representatives Madison, Haywood, Moore Omokunde, Arney, Goodwin, Rivera-Wagner, Stubbs, Taylor, Bare, Brown, Clancy, DeSmidt, Fitzgerald, Hong, Joers, Kirsch, Miresse, Phelps, Prado, Roe, Tenorio and Udell

  2. Apr 14, 2025 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development

  3. Apr 30, 2025 · Senate

    Representative McCarville added as a cosponsor

  4. May 13, 2025 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Mar 23, 2026 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1