CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1547

                        54th Legislature

                      1995 Regular Session

Passed by the House March 8, 1995   Yeas 97   Nays 0 Speaker of the        House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 21, 1995   Yeas 40   Nays 0

CERTIFICATE I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1547 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

President of the Senate

Chief Clerk

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

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Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                        State of Washington

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                            SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1547

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                     Passed Legislature - 1995 Regular Session

State of Washington              54th Legislature             1995 Regular Session

By House Committee on Financial Institutions & Insurance (originally sponsored by Representatives L. Thomas, Dellwo, Kessler, Dickerson, Basich and Costa)

Read first time 02/24/95.

Pertaining to longshore and harbor workers' compensation.

     AN ACT Relating to longshore and harbor workers' compensation act insurance; amending RCW 48.22.072; amending 1993 c 177 s 3 and 1992 c 209 s 6 (uncodified); and declaring an emergency.

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

     Sec. 1.  RCW 48.22.072 and 1993 c 177 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

     The committee appointed pursuant to RCW 48.22.071 shall submit a report to the legislature no later than January 1((, 1994 and 1995)) of each year, summarizing the activities of the plan adopted under RCW 48.22.070 during its most recent fiscal year and since its inception.  ((The committee shall in each report examine, based on the experience of the plan or other information made available to it, whether the Washington state industrial insurance fund should participate in the plan adopted pursuant to RCW 48.22.070; whether there are methods that will satisfy the intent of chapter 209, Laws of 1992 that will not involve the Washington state industrial insurance fund; and the feasibility of requiring that this coverage be made directly available through the Washington state industrial insurance fund.))

     Sec. 2.  1993 c 177 s 3 & 1992 c 209 s 6 (uncodified) are each amended to read as follows:

     This act shall expire on July 1, ((1995)) 1997.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.  This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect immediately.

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