H-1678.1 _______________________________________________
HOUSE BILL 2025
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State of Washington 53rd Legislature 1993 Regular Session
By Representatives Heavey and Horn
Read first time 02/22/93. Referred to Committee on Commerce & Labor.
AN ACT Relating to contractor registration requirements; and amending RCW 18.27.030.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 18.27.030 and 1992 c 217 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) An applicant for registration as a contractor shall submit an application under oath upon a form to be prescribed by the director and which shall include the following information pertaining to the applicant:
(a) Employer social security number.
(b) As applicable: (i) The industrial insurance account number covering employees domiciled in Washington; and (ii) evidence of workers' compensation coverage in the applicant's state of domicile for the applicant's employees working in Washington who are not domiciled in Washington.
(c) Employment security department number.
(d) State excise tax registration number.
(e) Unified business identifier (UBI) account number may be substituted for the information required by (b), (c), and (d) of this subsection.
(f) Type of contracting activity, whether a general or a specialty contractor and if the latter, the type of specialty.
(g) The name and address of each partner if the applicant be a firm or partnership, or the name and address of the owner if the applicant be an individual proprietorship, or the name and address of the corporate officers and statutory agent, if any, if the applicant be a corporation. The information contained in such application shall be a matter of public record and open to public inspection.
(2) The department may verify the workers' compensation coverage information provided by the applicant under subsection (1)(b) of this section, including but not limited to information regarding the coverage of an individual employee of the applicant. If coverage is provided under the laws of another state, the department may notify the other state that the applicant is employing employees in Washington.
(3) Registration shall be denied if the applicant has been previously registered as a sole proprietor, partnership or corporation, and was a principal or officer of the corporation, and if the applicant has an unsatisfied final judgment in an action based on RCW 18.27.040 that incurred during a previous registration under this chapter.
The director shall, by rule, require a person or entity registering as a contractor under this chapter for the first time or reregistering after a lapse of two years or more to complete sixteen hours of education in subjects related to business practices and law that affect contractors before that person or entity becomes registered under this chapter. Thereafter, a person or entity that registered for the first time under this chapter on or after January 1, 1990, or that registered under this chapter for the first time on or after January 1, 1990, and is reregistering after a lapse of two or more years shall provide evidence of completion of at least three additional credit hours of continuing education per year in subjects relating to business practices and laws that affect contractors before having its registration renewed.
In adopting rules relating to the educational requirements, the director shall take into consideration the availability of training programs in the state and shall encourage training providers to use the most up-to-date technology. The education courses must be provided by nongovernmental persons and entities, and correspondence courses must be allowed.
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