Washington State Increasing Training Requirements

At this writing Washington State Bill 6437-Swas passed by the Legislator and awaits the Governors expected signature. This is Washington’s attempt to improve the current state of the Industry in Washington. The biggest change will be an increase in the pathetically minimal training requirements. The new Bill has increased the Field Operations Training requirement to 32 hours. Although amazingly still not requiring any personal Bail Enforcement field experience of the instructors, this will hopefully rid the field of at least some of the inadequate “bail recovery training programs” that sprang up overnight with the implementation of State license requirements in 2006. As a complete training program already exceeding even the new Washington State requirements and always requiring high levels of actual bail enforcement experience of its Instructors for over ten years now, we welcome the change. When the Bill becomes law is still unsure, stay tuned.

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