This bill amends RCW 49.80.010, 49.80.020, and 49.80.030 and creates a new legislative intent section recognizing the sovereignty of federally recognized tribal governments and stating that federally approved, tribal‑operated apprenticeship programs should have the same rights and responsibilities as other approved apprenticeship programs when supplying workers to critical industries. It adds a workforce requirement that owners and operators of stationary sources in NAICS 324110 (petroleum refineries) and 325110 (petrochemical manufacturing) must require contractors and subcontractors to use a "skilled and trained workforce" for on‑site work in apprenticeable building and construction trades, and it excludes oil and gas extraction operations. The bill expands statutory definitions to include apprentices and apprenticeship graduates from federally approved tribal‑operated apprenticeship programs as "registered apprentices" and "skilled journeypersons." A “skilled and trained workforce” is defined as all workers being registered apprentices or skilled journeypersons and meeting apprenticeship graduation and approved advanced safety training requirements. At least 60% of skilled journeypersons must be graduates of a state‑approved or federally approved tribal‑operated apprenticeship program. It requires all workers in that workforce to have completed 20 hours of department‑approved advanced safety training for high hazard facilities within the past three years, directs the Department of Labor and Industries (in consultation with the state apprenticeship and training council) to approve and periodically review an in‑person curriculum and to issue certificates, and allows acceptance of equivalent certificates from other states or tribal governments. The bill sets a wage floor requiring skilled journeypersons be paid at least the 75th percentile hourly rate for the occupation and area per Employment Security Department statistics. It lists limited exemptions (owner/operator employees, demonstrated worker shortages where qualified workers could not be obtained within 48 hours except weekends/holidays, and emergencies) and clarifies these requirements do not convert the described work into a public work under RCW 39.04.010. Legally, this is a statutory modification and a new statutory intent section: it changes definitions, adds procedural requirements for training approval and certification, imposes contractual compliance obligations on owners/operators and contractors, and establishes wage and workforce composition standards. The text provided does not state an overall effective date for the bill beyond the specified application to contracts awarded, extended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2020 and to work performed more than one year after January 1, 2020 under earlier contracts. The record does not include enforcement mechanisms, penalties, funding provisions, or a specific compliance timeline for the 60% skilled journeyperson requirement; if additional sections address those points, they are not present in the provided facts.

If enacted, owners and operators of petroleum refineries and petrochemical plants will need to require contractors doing apprenticeable construction and maintenance work to use teams made up entirely of registered apprentices or skilled journeypersons, with at least 60% of journeypersons coming from state‑approved or federally approved tribal apprenticeship programs and all workers having completed 20 hours of approved advanced safety training within the last three years. That will likely raise contractors’ labor costs because skilled journeyperson pay must be at or above roughly the 75th percentile of local wages, and it will shift hiring toward state and federally approved tribal apprenticeship programs as primary sources of qualified workers. The Department of Labor and Industries and the state apprenticeship council would need to approve training curricula and issue certificates, creating new administrative duties, while tribal apprenticeship programs gain formal access to supply workers. The measure includes short emergency and temporary shortage exemptions and applies to relevant contracts or work performed after January 1, 2020, but important implementation details are missing here — there is no clear overall effective date in these excerpts, no timetable for meeting the 60% requirement, and no penalties, enforcement mechanisms, or funding information, so how compliance will be monitored and who pays the added costs is unclear.