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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1454
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State of Washington 53rd Legislature 1993 Regular Session
By House Committee on Commerce & Labor (originally sponsored by Representatives King, G. Cole, Horn, Foreman, R. Johnson, Sheahan, Chandler, Vance, Brough, Miller, Ballasiotes, Brumsickle, Wood, Van Luven, Springer, Silver, Cooke, Long, Dyer, Morton, Talcott and Sehlin)
Read first time 02/17/93.
AN ACT Relating to the definition of acting in the course of employment; and amending RCW 51.08.013.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 51.08.013 and 1979 c 111 s 15 are each amended to read as follows:
"Acting in the course of employment"
means the worker acting at his or her employer's direction or in the
furtherance of his or her employer's business which shall include time spent
going to and from work on the jobsite, as defined in RCW 51.32.015 and
51.36.040, insofar as such time is immediate to the actual time that the worker
is engaged in the work process in areas controlled by his or her employer,
except parking area((s, and)). It is not necessary that at the
time an injury is sustained by a worker he or she ((be)) is doing
the work on which his or her compensation is based or that the event ((be))
is within the time limits on which industrial insurance or medical aid
premiums or assessments are paid. The term ((shall)) does not
include time spent going to or coming from the employer's place of business:
(a) In commuter ride sharing, as defined in RCW 46.74.010(1),
notwithstanding any participation by the employer in the ride-sharing
arrangement; or (b) on a public transport system using a pass provided in
whole or part by the employer.
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