H-2137.1

SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1655


State of Washington	65th Legislature	2017 Regular Session

By House Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Lovick, Holy, Griffey, Hayes, Sells, Doglio, Stokesbary, Frame, Irwin, Fitzgibbon, Pike, Fey, Goodman, Pollet, and Stanford)

READ FIRST TIME 02/24/17.

AN ACT Relating to providing industrial insurance coverage for stress-caused mental disorders and disabilities of members of the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system; and amending RCW 51.08.142.

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

Sec. 1. RCW 51.08.142 and 1988 c 161 s 16 are each amended to read as follows:

The department shall adopt a rule pursuant to chapter 34.05 RCW that claims based on mental conditions or mental disabilities caused by stress do not fall within the definition of occupational disease in RCW 51.08.140, except for claims made by a member of the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system under chapter 41.26 RCW.

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