SB 6343-S - DIGEST
(AS OF SENATE 2ND READING 2/07/18)

Creates the healthy energy workers task force to: (1) Review the information generated through the presumption of occupational disease for department of energy Hanford site workers; and

(2) Develop recommendations for successfully diagnosing and treating diseases or other health problems experienced by workers, including contractors and subcontractors, who have performed work for the United States at the Hanford site.

Requires the University of Washington, through the center of excellence for chemically related illness at Harborview Medical Center, and the department of labor and industries, to provide administrative support to the task force, including making arrangements for the inaugural and subsequent meetings of the task force.