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Substitute Senate Bill 5803 — Washington National Guard Member Referral Incentive Program (2024)

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Substitute Senate Bill 5803 of the State of Washington, by Senate Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Conway, Boehnke, Dozier and others; by request of Military Department). The act relates to the recruitment and retention of Washington National Guard members. It creates the Washington national guard member referral incentive program, which provides a referral bonus to members who make a successful referral that results in a completed accession. Members serving in command or senior enlisted advisor positions, and those assigned recruiting as a primary or additional duty, are ineligible. The referral bonus is a monetary payment set each calendar year by the adjutant general, not to exceed $500.00. The bill is marked READ FIRST TIME 02/05/24.

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     S-4757.1

                           SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5803


     State of Washington         68th Legislature        2024 Regular Session

     By Senate Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Conway,
     Boehnke, Dozier, Frame, Holy, Hunt, Kuderer, Liias, Lovelett, Lovick,
     MacEwen, Mullet, Nobles, Padden, Stanford, Wagoner, Warnick, and
     Wellman; by request of Military Department)

     READ FIRST TIME 02/05/24.




 1       AN ACT Relating to the recruitment and retention of Washington
 2   National Guard members; and adding a new section to chapter 38.24
 3   RCW.


 4   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:


 5       NEW SECTION.   Sec. 1.   A new section is added to chapter 38.24
 6   RCW to read as follows:
 7       (1) There is created the Washington national guard member
 8   referral incentive program. The purpose of the program is to
 9   incentivize and maximize peer-to-peer recruiting that results in a
10   completed accession to the Washington national guard by providing a
11   referral bonus to Washington national guard members who make a
12   successful referral. Administration of this program requires that:
13       (a) A Washington national guard member may provide the identity
14   and contact information of a person who the member believes would be
15   an appropriate recruitment prospect using a form provided by the
16   Washington national guard, which includes the person's name, contact
17   information, and any other information required by the state military
18   department.
19       (b) The state military department shall keep a record of all
20   forms submitted under (a) of this subsection. Upon the completed
21   accession of a referred person and to the extent sufficient funds are
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 1   available, the state military department shall distribute a referral
 2   bonus to the member who provided the successful referral.
 3       (2) Members of the Washington national guard serving in command
 4   or senior enlisted advisor positions, as well as those assigned
 5   recruiting as a primary or additional duty, are ineligible for the
 6   Washington national guard member referral incentive program.
 7       (3) For the purposes of this section:
 8       (a) "Completed accession" means the referred person signs the
 9   referred person's name to an enlistment contract for entry or reentry
10   after prior service into the Washington national guard;
11       (b) "Referral bonus" means a monetary payment set each calendar
12   year by the adjutant general not to exceed $500.00;
13       (c) "Successful referral" means providing the identity and
14   contact information in subsection (1)(a) of this section of any
15   person not already a member of the Washington national guard that
16   results in a completed accession to the Washington national guard.

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