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                                         SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL NO. 3407

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                                                                            C 040 L 85

 

 

State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

 

By Senate Committee on Commerce & Labor (originally sponsored by Senators Warnke, Newhouse, Wojahn, McManus, Rasmussen, Cantu and Vognild; by Employment Security Department request)

 

 

Read first time 2/6/85.

 

 


AN ACT Relating to the approval of training by the commissioner of employment security; amending RCW 50.20.043; creating a new section; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.

 

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

 

        Sec. 1.  Section 12, chapter 3, Laws of 1971 as amended by section 2, chapter 181, Laws of 1984 and RCW 50.20.043 are each amended to read as follows:

          No otherwise eligible individual shall be denied benefits for any week because the individual is  in training with the approval of the commissioner, nor shall such individual be denied benefits with respect to any week in which the individual is satisfactorily progressing in a training program with the approval of the commissioner by reason of the application of RCW 50.20.010(3), 50.20.015, 50.20.080, or 50.22.020(1) relating to availability for work and active search for work, or ((RCW 50.20.080 relating to)) failure to apply for((,)) or refusal to accept suitable work.

          An individual who the commissioner determines to be a dislocated worker as defined by RCW 50.04.075 ((is eligible for benefits with respect to any week in which the individual)) and who is satisfactorily progressing in a training program approved by the commissioner shall be considered to be in training with the approval of the commissioner.

 

          NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2.     If any part of this act is found to be in conflict with federal requirements which are a prescribed condition to the allocation of federal funds to the state or the eligibility of employers in this state for federal unemployment tax credits, the conflicting part of this act is hereby declared to be inoperative solely to the extent of the conflict, and such finding or determination shall not affect the operation of the remainder of this act.  The rules under this act shall meet federal requirements which are a necessary condition to the receipt of federal funds by the state or the granting of federal unemployment tax credits to employers in this state.

 

          NEW SECTION.  Sec. 3.     If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected.

 

          NEW SECTION.  Sec. 4.     This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, and safety, the support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect July 1, 1985.


                                                                                                                      Passed the Senate February 14, 1985.

 

                                                                                                                                       President of the Senate.

 

                                                                                                                             Passed the House April 5, 1985.

 

                                                                                                                                         Speaker of the House.