AN ORDINANCE relating to employment in Seattle; requiring certain employers to limit room cleaning workloads for certain employees; adding a new Chapter 14.27 to the Seattle Municipal Code (SMC); and amending Sections 3.15.000 and 6.208.020 of the SMC.
Bill passed in show senate. Please read agenda item number one the short title and I think we'll take these individually councilmember mosquito so let's just call it that. I'll work with you, I assume. Take them individually. Council President I wonder if we could read all four into the record so we can all speak to them and then maybe take individual votes. I do have a one amendment on health care that I'd love to consider individually when we get to the voting process. But if it pleases the president, maybe then we can speak to all four. Let's do it. So read all four in the short titles, then we'll we'll vote on them separately. Every part of the Housing, Health, Energy and Workers Rights Committee, Gender and one Council vote 119554 related to employment in Seattle, requiring certain employers to limit room cleaning workloads for certain employees. Committee recommends will pass Agenda Item two Constable 119556 willing to implement in at any Chapter 14.29 to the sounds of a code, the committee recommended the bill pass agenda item three Council Bill 119557 relating to employment in Seattle requires certain employees to take certain actions to prevent, to protect and respond to violent or harassing conduct by guests. Committee recommends a bill passes amended and agenda agenda item four Cancel 119555 relating to employment in Seattle, requiring certain employers to make required health care expenditures to or on behalf of certain employees for the purpose of improving access to medical care. Can we recommend the bill passes amended? Thank you. Madam Clerk comes from ROSQUETA. Thank you, Mr. President. It's been a long road to get here. It's been about nine months of engagement with community partners that we've heard from today. And over the last nine months, we've had nine committee meetings directly talking about specific legislation. Well, it feels like a long road for us in the midst of these policy debates, in the midst of media soundbites, in the midst of policy amendments that we've heard that we've brought forward to our committee, it can be easy to forget what this legislation is all about. And this legislation is mostly about the women. And I say women intentionally, who you've heard from today and over the last nine months, actually, over the last few years, women who've experienced harassment, injury and fear in the workplace, women who are mostly people of color, mostly immigrant workers. We've drafted legislation and put it in front of you to think about what it means to walk in the shoes of a hotel worker, somebody who's been waiting on tables in hotels and serving guests of those hotels. And for decades, many of these workers have been waiting for this legislation to pass. Well, it's been a long road for us. It's been a much longer road for those individuals who've been asking for these type of protections over the years. This worker, she's probably been harassed potentially in a hotel behind a closed door, in a room or in public, like we heard about at the last committee meeting where an individual came forward and said that as a server in a restaurant connected to a hotel, she had to get out of an unwanted hug and run away and then was reprimanded by her employer for getting out of that hug. She's probably felt trapped and didn't know what to do, and she maybe felt uncomfortable about reporting it. As we know, 50% of housekeepers have experienced harassment and haven't reported it because of fear or discomfort, not knowing what the outcome would be. She probably got injured on the job. As we know that hotel workers have higher rates of back injury than construction workers and coal miners let that sink in. Then construction workers and coal miners, we're talking about basic protections that we want to make sure every worker has in every industry. You heard today about the individual who mentioned four surgeries. Think about that individual now being able to potentially access health care. When we were first talking about this legislation last December and January, I heard testimony of worker after worker who had experienced miscarriage after miscarriage because of the high rates are high number of square footage that they had to clean. She may not have wanted to ask for protections because she was fearful of retaliation and maybe was fearful because of what she had heard about coworkers speaking up. But then guess what happened? 77% of voters voted to have her back. She felt protected by this very city. She felt protected by the voters who stood up and said that, yes, they want people to have access to health care. Panic buttons in case they go into a hotel room like we've talked about the ability to know how much square footage they will be asked to clean every day. And today we are moving forward with some of those basic protections that many of us voted for and that many of us have actually had the chance to learn from since the implementation of 124. So thank you to all of the workers and the industry who have come forward and worked with us over the last nine months . I know that nobody needs an overview and I'm trying not to get into the policy weeds, but I can't help it. I just want to remind folks that these four components are incredibly important. Protection from harassment and intimidation, access to health care, and the ability to purchase that health care, job retention and protection against unsafe workloads. Our Officers Council member Gonzalez and I, as co-sponsors of this legislation, have been working diligently with the Office of Labor Standards Central Staff, the Executive Office, the Attorneys Office, all of you on council, and the stakeholders, the multiple stakeholders that we've heard from today who have helped us craft the legislation in front of you and over these nine committee meetings, and I would say hundreds of calls and emails that we have received, we have tried to pull forward the common ground that we see between what stakeholders want and the very protections that we know voters wanted. The process in and of itself was very inclusive. We tried to make sure to have weekly meetings, to hear both feedback and amendment ideas. And of course, not everybody is satisfied with every aspect of the legislation. That's what happens. There are some incredibly important protections, though, that we have been able to maintain in the initiative. And as you've heard from folks who testified as workers, this is a really important step forward in carrying out the will of the voters and making sure that the legislation in front of us truly does improve safety, protect folks from harassment and intimidation, improve access to health care and the ability to purchase it, and make sure that this industry moves forward with what we know some good employers already include in their policies, but makes it a public policy of this city to make sure that every worker has those same protections. We've included some really important language, and I want to thank all the council members for engaging with us, especially the folks who are on our committee. Councilmember Bagshaw has been working with our office as we thought about how do we include the feedback that we heard on ancillary business. And what's really important to know is that the definition of ancillary business has been very much scoped to make sure that there's a specific and direct connection to the hotel purpose, that something that we heard was really important, as well as making sure that food and beverage establishment had a direct entrance for guests into that business. This is a direct element of the feedback that we've received from community stakeholders, and there's also some Faizon provisions. It's really important to note that the load safety protections, the retention and health care bills, they only cover businesses with 50 or more employees. And if there is a business that has between 50 and 250 employees, they have five years to work to get into compliance to make it workable or renegotiate leases. This is directly based on feedback from especially some of the smallest businesses that we've worked with to make sure that the legislation is implementable and that there's time to make these administrative changes to get into compliance on the safety legislation. You may recall that we had initial protections included to look at excluding guests who were accused of harassment and intimidation. And I think that this is something that all of the voters really wanted to make sure that no worker is put in the position where they are, again, intimidated, harassed or assaulted in their workplace. And that includes whether or not you're working in the restaurant that's connected to the hotel or if you're in that closed door with the hotel guests. And what you have in front of you today really represents an amended version of the concept that we had brought forward because of the feedback that we got from the ACLU, King County Sexual Assault Resource Center, King County Prosecutor's Office, Refugee Immigrant Alliance, The Rewire folks and folks from One America and More. We have had very important conversations about how we include some of the feedback from legal voice and the Sexual Violence Law Center. And we look forward to making sure that there are protections that aren't just words on a piece of paper or aren't just a panic button that looks like the Staples button, but that when you push a panic button, you truly have somebody that's calm so that they can come and free you from that situation and that people know where to go when that panic button is hit. This is really important, as we've learned from past legislation, that we need to make sure that this is workable, that it's meaningful, and that results and behavior in norms changes. So thank you to the folks who have worked with us on that. Councilmember Pacheco, you brought forward an amendment. That helped to make sure that when workers do access the time that we've proposed, that they can have off to access as an advocate to pursue the situation that they've claimed has happened to them. They'll be able to use that time within a two week period. We know sometimes it takes people a while to process what's happened to them, and that was an important amendment. We also made sure that the violent or harassing conduct is something that will never get a pass and that we have opportunities to lift up what we know some good employers have implemented and apply these good policies across the board. So some have talked about what they already have in place. We appreciate that. But public policy is significant. Public policy means that every worker gets protected and public policy is what we're carrying out today. On the injury legislation, this legislative process, we've learned a lot about what housekeepers need in order to be safe. The 2010 American Journal of Industrial Medicine study found that occupational injury disparities in the US hotel industry found that employees have higher rates of occupational industry and seen more severe injuries than most other service workers. And there's a disproportionate aspect, right, especially when you think about this, applying to more women and women of color. We have an equity call to action here. They are sounding the alarm bell for us to act on these injury rates. And that's exactly what we've done here. In 2006 in the Puget Sound Stage survey found that we had three times the percentage of back pain and injury than the general population. This is calling on us again to make sure that we act so that these workers, again, mostly women, people of color and immigrants, don't experience higher rates of trouble sleeping, chronic pain and interruption with daily activities. And again, I'll mention miscarriages because that often doesn't get reported as a public health aspect. We are very excited about what we've been able to put in front of us today, and many in many respects we see the legislation in front of you as a carefully crafted term of art, because many of you have wanted different things and we have tried to come together to include those. But what's most important is that we don't forget the stories that we've heard today, the workers who have come forward time and time again to talk about why it is so important to have safety protections in terms of workload safety protections, in terms of protection from harassment and intimidation, the ability to access or purchase health care, and to make sure that all of us have retention and the ability to stay at our jobs. We have one of the most thriving industries in the hotel hospitality industry, and your work on a daily basis makes the work of this city function. So for us on city council it is about moving forward in ensuring that there's stability and security for these workers and helping and in doing that, that will help us be one of the more attractive places to come to because people will continue to point at Seattle for being the place that lifts up workers. And I applaud all of you for making this legislation today possible. Mr. President, I'll have a few more thank you's, but I know the cosponsor and other committee members probably have a lot to contribute to this. And so before I get into the thank you's for all of the incredible work that went into making this legislation possible, I'd love to hold that for until right before we vote. Okay. Sounds good. We are. We can speak on all four pieces of the legislation. It's all been written and recorded. I'm sorry. We just got. Yeah. Oh, go ahead. You can say it loudly. Councilmember Gonzalez, would you like to have some comments? Sure. I think that council was going to do a good job of outlining the various components from a policy perspective in terms of how these four bills have evolved since they were first introduced for council consideration. So what I think council members get for that heavy dose of the wonk sauce, appreciate it. I do think it's important to, in this forum and venue, really highlight the the key policy points that have changed and that have evolved in large part in response to much of the public testimony that we've heard and a lot of the ongoing engagement that occurred over the last several months. And so, you know, I just I just think it's really important for us today to really acknowledge that what we are about to vote on now is a follow up on a historic moment that occurred in 2016, when the voters first initially passed initiative 1 to 4 with 77% of the vote. And in today's city council, it is my belief through the passage of these of these four bills is going to fulfill the intent of the voter to ultimately provide protections to this part of our workforce. That, unfortunately, is subjected to much more to two issues in the in the labor workforce that are quite problematic. And so I'm really honored to be able to be a co-sponsor of this legislation. I'm I'm really honored to be able to continue to struggle with a lot of these issues in a way that I think is responsive to the people who need the help most, which are the workers in our in our city, who really do need these protections to continue to be able to thrive and to succeed in our city. Last week at committee, I spoke a little bit about what my motivation is and what my motivation has been in terms of of of wanting to pursue this suite of labor standards. And I just wanted to reiterate that a little bit today by saying that, you know, for me, I think even when we were first considering initiative one, two, four, I came out very strongly in support of the initiative when we were first considering a resolution to support it on the ballot. And I continue to support the concepts and the principles that are included in all four of these bills. And it's very simple for me. As Councilman Mosqueda mentioned, the large majority of people who work in this industry are women. Many of them are women of color in particular, and many of them are immigrants and refugees. And so for me, as a woman, as a woman of color and the daughter of immigrant parents, it is incredibly important for me to come here every day to city hall and live those values out in the way that I shape and think about policy and make policy. I don't believe that's a conflict of interest. I believe that that's why the voters of Seattle elected me as the first Latin X person to be elected to Seattle City Council in 2015 by mandate, by the way. So I think that for me it isn't a conflict of interest. It is incredibly important for me to bring my perspective as a working class person, as somebody who relied on social services growing up, as somebody who comes from a union household and is someone who is a person of color and a woman of color and the daughter of Mexican immigrants, to make sure that every day I'm here, I am living those values through this policymaking process. And that means centering my policy work and my priorities on helping those who need the most help. And for me, those are workers. And many of you in this audience are in that category as people, as people who are going to directly benefit from this policy. So I want to thank you and do this for you today, but also do it for all of the women who are not in this room today and for all of the women across the state who I know work day in and day out to serve their families and to do it with dignity and respect. My father, who's no longer with me. Used to oftentimes say, you know, were migrant farm workers, were poor and humble people, but there is dignity in all work and there is respect in all work. And just because you change somebody's bed sheets, it doesn't mean that you deserve to not be seen. So today we see you, we respect you, we respect your work. And we acknowledge that every day you in a small and big way, serve the people who visit our city and serve the people who live here. And I thank you for that service. Thank you, Councilman. Council Swan. Thank you, President Herrell. I am happily voting yes on the next four pieces of legislation. As a rank and file union member, a member of the teachers union and an elected representative of Seattle's working people as a socialist and as a woman. The protections in this legislation started with union members organizing to write Initiative 124 and organizing to win 77% support in the election. And when the court struck down, I won 24 on a technicality, not on the political basis. Workers organized to bring the legislator in to City Hall. And I am so happy to join Councilmembers Mesquita and Gonzalez in supporting this legislation. And I thank both your officers for the work and also your staff. Unfortunately, though, not surprisingly, and this needs to be noted, Mayor Durkan and some others attempted to reduce the scope of the worker protection by playing esoteric games with the definition of ancillary business and trying to discuss know who deserves health care and protections from sexual harassment. As we have said very clearly. All workers deserve these protections. And I'm really glad we were able to stop efforts to water down the bills and that the most damaging amendments are not being included in this legislation. I also would add that for the hotel and restaurant industry who are upset about the cost of providing health care, I would first echo my sister, Katie Guerra's point that when the system is rigged in your favor, when occasionally workers win some benefits, you may think that it is tipping the scales in the wrong direction, but it's not. This is a small measure of justice that workers are going to win. And if you don't like providing health care to your workers, then join us in the movement for single payer, Medicare for All, universal health care. But no business has the right to exploit workers. Oh. But ultimately what the labor movement is able to win depends, as it always does, on the unity of our workers movement, on the activism of union members themselves. And that is why the passage of these bills will be a testament to the tenacity of the members of Unite Here Local eight who are not only of you know, who not only fought for this initiative, but who are now fighting for their rights every day. Just this past Saturday, I joined Unite Here members like Sharing, who spoke today at the Edgewater Hotel who are in a difficult contract fight with the hotel owner. They have shared moving stories of overwork and abuse by their managers, but they are determined to fight back. And as I said, I and I'm delighted to share the news that the Edgewater workers have voted by an overwhelming 93% to authorize a strike. And we all need to stand with these brave workers. And last but not least, since our Teamster brothers and sisters are also in the house, I wanted to applaud Teamsters and other unions in California for their tremendous victory last week with the legislative bill. Ab5. This is a landmark legislation which will expand employment rights for tens of thousands of workers Uber and Lyft drivers for truck drivers, and many, many other gig economy workers who are currently misclassified by their employers as independent contractors. This is not only a vital step against exploitation of the workers in California. This is setting the trend for gig economy workers throughout the nation and throughout the world. And it's a strong message to exploiting corporations like Uber and Lyft that workers will continue to organize. And I'll end by saying that Seattle and Washington State need our own ab5 not half measures by the political establishment. And I am fully committed to be working with all unions in our community and our community allies to bring something like Ab5 to Seattle in Washington. Thank you, Katherine, for. Comes from Chicco. First, I just want to begin by thanking Councilmember Mosquito and Councilmember Gonzales for introducing these four ordinances. Not everyone received what they wanted interpreting i 124 and through it all, Councilman Mosquito chaired a very open and inclusive process and four that I think are through this process. And in my conversations I kept voter intent a top of mind. And for me it was my mother. Maria delivered this. Watkins My mother for nearly two decades, clean hotels. And as a kid, I sometimes go to my mom's job after school or after a morning at the doctor's office to help to help her. I'd often back in the hallways and for the towels and sheets. My mother over the years has shared stories of guests who made her feel uncomfortable and unsafe. It was with my mother in mind when I voted for AIDS 124 and who I kept in my mind through this process. Councilmember Gonzalez said during committee that she didn't have a crystal ball during the discussion regarding health care and the well-being of hotel workers. Neither do I. I just have my mother in mind. She's now had had multiple surgeries on her shoulders, in her hands. I know how hard your job is and I know how important your well-being is. This council did its best to interpret voter intent, as I did with keeping my mother in mind. I may no longer be going to visit my mother at work, but today at work I get to keep my mother in mind. And urged this Council to affirm the will of the voters and support the four pieces of legislation. Thank you. Thank you. So I want to continue with the thank. And first, I want to say thank you to the hotel owners and managers who have been here coming week after week. And I have reached out to you. I have spent time with many of you. And I want to acknowledge Anna Boon, thank you for your continuing responses and working to help us reach resolution. And I do want to acknowledge and recognize that not everybody in this room is happy. That said, I think we've made some real progress on this, that the legislation is a far cry from when I first read it a number of months ago and to the hotel workers, I want to acknowledge and say thank you to you for all of the beds that you've changed, all of the towels you've brought in, all of the toilets and showers that you clean on a regular basis. That is no job that anybody would decide or or decry as being easy. I think it's one of the most difficult jobs, as we've heard, that people are have a higher rate of injury and think in no small part, if you're trying to change a king sized bed by yourself and you weigh £100, there's nothing easy about that. So please know that I appreciate all the work that you have done and also for the small businesses that have said, no, this is a family owned business. We can't afford this. For businesses that have fewer than 50 employees, this this legislation isn't going to impact you. And if you have a business that has less than 250 employees, you've got a five year phased in. That strikes me as a very reasonable approach. I also want to say thank you to Stephane a number of years ago. I don't know whether it was five, seven years ago. I offered to come and work a shift at one of the hotels with the people that are cleaning the rooms just because I was willing to do it and to see how hard it actually was. So I want to say thank you for the times that you've spent with me talking about that and for all of the people that you have represented. Also, we had a woman today earlier that said, why don't you do something about health care legislation going to the state? Believe me, if that's something you want to go with me hand in hand to go down to our legislature and to get a better health care coverage that is paid for by the state. With the state, whether it's universal health care, no matter what it's going to take, I believe we're going to have to start in the state of Washington. I'd be more than glad to go with you and support that. I think that's what's needed. Lastly, I do want to say about the ancillary business. This has been something with which I have struggled and we started off having every business that had anything to do or anywhere close to the hotel. And we're now at a point where I think that we have so heard from so many people that it's limited to businesses that routinely contract with a hotel for services in conjunction with the hotels purpose. It does not cover routine maintenance. It also covers an office or a company or a business that leases or sublease leases space at the side of the hotel for services in conjunction with the hotels purpose. And that is a definition that excludes routine maintenance. And also lastly, if it is a restaurant that provides food or beverages to hotels and to the public, there must be a public entrance into the hotel that has scope the definition in such a way that I feel that we have reached a compromise that I can live with. Finally, big thank you. Councilmember Mosquito, you've been leading this charge nine meetings. And for those of you who have come to all nine meetings, you know that Councilmember Mosquito listens to people. We have routinely had 3 hours, three and a half hour meetings because it's important to her that we have heard from everyone here. Councilmember Gonzales, thank you for your leadership also, Danny here. I don't know if you're out here somewhere, but Dan and Corina Bull, thank you for the million drafts that you have done for all of the evening and weekend work that you have done to help this. And I also want to acknowledge our law department, particularly Carolyn Beaux, who once again has spent many of her weekends redrafting. So that's thanks. I'm going to be supporting you in this, and I appreciate your leadership. Thank you. Comes from a back channel. Yeah. There you have the comments before councilmembers get those four things we did. I'll just say before you give your thanks, can one of the sponsors describe the. There was a sort of a last minute change from 5000 square foot to 4500 square foot that I left the committee table. And that was passed at the table. But I've gotten a lot of calls as early as today on that issue. And perhaps one of you could explain the wisdom behind that change and the impetus behind that. What would justify that? Because I thought the 5000 square foot standard was when I won 24. I'm happy to address this. Councilman, town council president. Thank you. So in committee, we in both council rooms, Kate and I introduced an amendment that would lower further lower the the the threshold as it relates to when penalty pay would be triggered. So that's what the question is for those colleagues who didn't have the benefit of attending committee. So there is a provision within this suite of legislation that would require employers who request or require housekeepers to clean more than a certain amount of square footage to pay a certain level of penalty pay. Or, as councilman was going to refer to it, is in the injury protection pay to workers who work for those hours above and beyond what it takes the worker to work that square footage. So the original amendment had the level set at 5000 square feet. So for every hour that it took a worker to clean more than 5000 square feet, they would receive three times the amount of pay, hourly pay for for that extra work done above and above that limit. We had a discussion in committee about lowering that by 500 square feet to 4500 square feet while still leaving the penalty pay rate at the same rate of three times the hourly rate that it would take a worker to work the additional square footage. And the motivation behind that, and I talked about this at committee was a couple of a couple of different things. And it was based on some math that I didn't bring with me today. But essentially there has been some work done in California, as we have been discussing in committee. There are two jurisdictions in California that already have these laws in place that were passed, but also by voter initiative. And in both of those instances, the square footage in the legislation that those cities considered is at 4000 square feet, in large part because it takes there is a number out there that is cited in public sources that says that on average, a housekeeper cleans approximately 14 rooms, 14 rooms a day. And the average times the average square footage of a room sort of yields to about 4650 in terms of a square footage to clean 14 rooms a day, which would then which then led us as being councilmembers late at night to believe that if we were truly serious about creating disincentives to assign excessive workloads in, to really address the issue of what is an excessive workload, we felt more comfortable supporting a 4500 workload, which seemed to be a greater disincentive to assign excessive workloads to housekeepers based on that math. Thanks for that explanation, Councilmember Gonzales. I'll make a comment that I think what's behind the legislation and it's going to pass is the great work that organized labor and workers are standing together and saying in our struggle, we need to be heard and changes need to be made. And for those reasons, this kind of legislation comes into being, and that's a good thing. I'm not into the demonizing of hoteliers or employers in my efforts to reach good legislation because I believe they also care about employer safety as well, some more than others. Of course, I think the history would prove that. But I also believe that a definition of an ancillary business I voted for I 124 I don't even remember the term ancillary business quite candidly. I'm not sure how much of that I read, but I was certainly compelled to support employee safety and employee health and the conditions that the healthy conditions that are needed. So in this process, you know there's customer back so said there were some compromises some concessions made. I'm sure everyone doesn't get everything. If they want. But at the end of the day, I hope it works for the employees and for our business community. So for that, I'll support it. And. Councilmember Mosqueda, will you sort of close us out and then we'll vote will vote on the first three and then we'll pause an item for and take an amendment. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you all again for your robust engagement on this issue. I know some folks who didn't speak today were also a part of the committee meeting, so thank you to every single council colleague I have appreciated working with, especially our stakeholders who you've heard from, from today and from really every council meeting that we had, we made sure that we had public testimony included at every committee meeting, and there has been robust discussion with folks outside of that. So I do want to first acknowledge, again, the workers who came forward and shared your stories. It is not easy to tell those stories half the time. And we know, as the council president said, not every individual in the industry experiences those stories, but those stories illuminate why we need public policy change to truly make sure that every worker has the same safety protections. And like your sure says, that one job should be enough. So thank you for continuing to show up and make sure that folks can hear that message loud and clear. Again, I want to thank the folks from the industry that I'll get to at the very end. But you two have brought out a tremendous expertize and feedback that I have and will try to incorporate in many iterations that it has. You saw and really appreciate your continued engagement with us, but I'll get to that in a second to say thank you to everybody who's been part of the stakeholder process. I do want to start first with Councilmember Gonzalez as the co-sponsor of this legislation. Thank you for your ongoing work with us as we've come forward and brought these four amendments forward. And we could not have done it without our team. So a huge amount of appreciation to C.J. Perry, who is not out here, but her fingerprints are all over this legislation many hours late at night working on this legislation. And we could not do it without her research and her feedback and her thoughtful engagement with all of you who've testified and called in to our office also . We couldn't do this without Brianna Thomas, thank you. Oh, there they are in. Her. Honor just in time. Thank you for all of your work, Sejal. And Brianna, from our offices, a huge amount of appreciation for your work. We talk about how we get to be up here bringing together these public policy pieces, but the paper in front of us would not be possible without your ongoing engagement. So thank you very much to Sage and Brianna and making those ideas come to fruition. Thank you. Dan Etre and Carina Bull. Dan's back there and Cory and I hope she can hear us. Oh, she's over there. Thank you for sent from central staff for working with us on these various iterations. As folks saw in the last few committee meetings, we really tried to be responsive to some committee amendment ideas, and you all were very flexible in working with us. So our central staff team get a huge amount of appreciation and applause for their work on this. Let's give it up for them. And every single office has engaged with us on this legislation. Allison from Councilmember Bagshaw, Susie from Councilmember O'Brien, Brendel from Councilmember Juarez, Alissa from Councilman Robert Pacheco, Ted from Councilmember Solomon's office, Alex from Councilmember Herbals office, then from the council, president's office and our communications team. Dana, Stephanie and Joseph have been working tremendously hard to help get us the information and then push out information about this legislation. So a huge amount of appreciation for your teams as well. We have really been able to move the ball forward. On getting some legal analysis from our city attorney's office. I believe Councilmember Bagshaw mentioned Erika Franklin, but they have been engaged with us as we've run through various iterations and also tried to get feedback on stakeholder ideas as well. So thank you to the city attorney's office, Jenny, for a grant from the Office of Labor Standards has been incredibly engaged with us, along with the executive. So we appreciate all of their work. And also to the Office of Civil Rights. We have Cadman, Cahill and Tamar Azari from the Office of Civil Rights. In terms of stakeholder engagement, we don't do anything without folks who actually are on the ground experiencing this. As you've heard our appreciation for the industry and workers. This is also true when it comes to the advocates for preventing folks from getting in, from experiencing sexual harassment and assault, and also to making sure that folks constitutional rights are respected. So thanks to the folks at the ACLU, Allison Holcomb and Eric Gonzalez, thanks to Rich Stoltz and Eli Goss from One America and Mona's absolute, absolute from the Refugee Women's Alliance, who really brought forward the voices and perspective of immigrant and refugee workers and all of their input on especially the protection from assault and harassment. Rebecca Johnson Andrea Piper Wetland. Mary Ellen Stone Benson. Those from the King County Sexual Assault Resource Center and the King County Prosecutor's Office. There are so many folks that we have received feedback from. But again, I want to end by thanking Stephane and Anna. Stephane from the Unite Here Workers perspective. Thank you for meeting with us and for bringing in voices of workers constantly to try to test the language that we saw. We really appreciate being able to work with you and Abby Lawler from Unite here as well for her work prior to her departure. So thank you to unite here and for all of your members for raising your voices and bringing those ideas forward to Anna Boone, John Lane, Leah and Teddy from the Seattle Restaurant Alliance and Seattle Hospitality Association. The managers who've been coming in to give us feedback and suggestions right up until the very end, which is where we will get to the amendment on health care here soon. We know that there's some points of disagreement on policy deviations from what folks wanted, but I do really appreciate you engaging with us. And I think that with that council president, I just a huge amount of appreciation for the flexibility from the central staff, from the clerk's office . And Friday. Cuevas also was generous to share our committee or to host our committees for 4 hours, sometimes as we had flexible agendas. So thanks to all of you for engaging and for making this a piece of public policy we can be proud of. Really appreciate all of you and look forward to having the final vote. Please call a role on the passage of the Bill Herbold II. Whereas Misgender O'Brien Pacheco. Sergeant Major Gonzalez, High President Harrell. Native Favorite Unopposed. To a pastoral Senate. We have council bill number two that's already been read in the record. Please call the roll on the passage of a united number to council bill 119556. Herbold whereas Macheda I O'Brien the Chaco. So what I beg John Gonzalez I President. Harrell I. Am favorite unopposed. Bill Pass was chair senate please call the roll on passage of agenda item number three Council Bill 119557. Herbold I whereas macheda I O'Brien Pacheco I want beg John Gonzalez President Harrell. I. Nine in favor not. Oppose bill passes and sure Senate agenda item number four we do have an amendment councilmember mosquito. Mr. President, I'd like to move Amendment one to provide clarification on the bill to improve access to medical. Care, second. To moved and second. Would like to elaborate on the amendment, I'm sure. Thank you. Council colleagues. As you see in front of you, we have a council amend a bill to amend council bill 119555 to make sure that we're offering clarification to employers and to employees. The language that you see in front of you, make sure that there is a requirement that the employer obtains a sign waiver for the employees and that the waiver is offered in the employee's primary language. Prior to offering the waiver, the employer must provide the employee with written disclosure of the rights being waived and make sure that that information is of being described or prescribed by the Director from Office of Labor Standards. So there will be a chance to engage with all this as we talk about what that form looks like. And importantly, we have added a section here to make sure that there's clarification that if an employee receives a waiver and written disclosure described in the law under subsection 0602 and the employee refuses to sign the waiver, then the employee I'm sorry, then the employer has been deemed to have satisfied the required health care expenditure rate for that employee. I thought this was a helpful suggestion and we really appreciate working with law to make sure that this clarification could get in here. I would encourage our council colleagues to support. Any other comments on the amendment only? I can't recall. Was it second? It was. Okay. So we're going to vote just on the amendment. All those in favor of the amendment as articulated by comes from a skater. Please vote I. I opposed. The ayes have it. So we have an amended agenda item number four. The any of the comments, councilman skate. Are we ready to vote? I think we're ready. Okay. Any other comments from any of my colleagues? Please call the role of the passage of the amended Bill Herbal. Hi, Suarez. Macheda O'Brien. Pacheco. So what? I beg John Gonzalez. President Harrell nine in favor nine. Oppose the bill passed and show Senate. Okay. We amended our agenda to address formally former agenda item number 33. So let's take it now.