CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        HOUSE BILL 1351

                        53rd Legislature

                      1993 Regular Session

Passed by the House March 8, 1993   Yeas 97   Nays 0 Speaker of the       House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 16, 1993   Yeas 42   Nays 0

CERTIFICATE I, Alan Thompson, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1351 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

President of the Senate

Chief Clerk

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Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                          HOUSE BILL 1351

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             Passed Legislature - 1993 Regular Session

State of Washington      53rd Legislature     1993 Regular Session

By Representatives Veloria, Heavey, King and Lisk; by request of Department of Labor & Industries

Read first time 01/25/93.  Referred to Committee on Commerce & Labor.

Defining hospital in regard to self-insurers.

    AN ACT Relating to the definition of hospital in regard to self-insurers; and amending RCW 51.14.150.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 51.14.150 and 1983 c 174 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) For the purposes of this section, "hospital" means a hospital as defined in RCW 70.41.020(2) or a psychiatric hospital regulated under chapter 71.12 RCW, but does not include beds utilized by a comprehensive cancer center for cancer research.

(2)(a) Any two or more employers which are school districts or educational service districts, (((2))) or (b) any two or more employers which are hospitals((, as defined in RCW 70.39.020(3))), and are owned or operated by a state agency or municipal corporation of this state, or (((3))) (c) any two or more employers which are hospitals((, as defined in RCW 70.39.020(3))), no one of which is owned or operated by a state agency or municipal corporation of this state ((or subject to RCW 70.39.150(3))), may enter into agreements to form self-insurance groups for the purposes of this chapter((:  PROVIDED, That)).

(3) No more than one group may be formed under subsection (2)(b) of this section and no more than one group may be formed under subsection (((3))) (2)(c) of this section.

(4) The self-insurance groups shall be organized and operated under  rules promulgated by the director under RCW 51.14.160.  Such a self-insurance group shall be deemed an employer for the purposes of this chapter, and may qualify as a self-insurer if it meets all the other requirements of this chapter.

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