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SENATE BILL 5598
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State of Washington 53rd Legislature 1993 Regular Session
By Senators Moore, Newhouse, Vognild, Anderson, Amondson, Prince, Prentice and Winsley
Read first time 02/04/93. Referred to Committee on Labor & Commerce.
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. Notwithstanding any participation by the employer, the
term ((shall)) does not include ((time spent going to or
coming from the employer's place of business in commuter ride sharing, as
defined in RCW 46.74.010(1), notwithstanding any participation by the employer in
the ride-sharing arrangement)) the following: (1) Travel to the
worker's regular jobsite before a workshift; (2) travel from the worker's
regular jobsite after a workshift; (3) provision of a vehicle, bus pass, or
parking place; or (4) provision of any other assistance to a worker in
transportation to or from the worker's regular jobsite.
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