CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        SENATE BILL 6225

                        54th Legislature

                      1996 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate February 2, 1996   YEAS 48   NAYS 0 President of the Senate Passed by the House February 28, 1996   YEAS 94   NAYS 0

CERTIFICATE I, Marty Brown, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 6225 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

Speaker of the       House of Representatives

Secretary

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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                         SENATE BILL 6225

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             Passed Legislature - 1996 Regular Session

State of Washington      54th Legislature     1996 Regular Session

By Senators Pelz, Deccio and Newhouse; by request of Department of Labor & Industries

Read first time 01/09/96.  Referred to Committee on Labor, Commerce & Trade.

Regulating employer assessments.

    AN ACT Relating to employer assessments; amending RCW 51.16.155; and repealing RCW 51.48.070.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 51.16.155 and 1985 c 315 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:

    In every case where an employer insured with the state fails or refuses to file any report of payroll required by the department and fails or refuses to pay the premiums due on such unreported payroll, the department shall have authority to estimate such payroll and the premiums due thereon and collect premiums on the basis of such estimate.

    If the report required and the premiums due thereon are not made within ten days from the mailing of such demand by the department, which shall include the amount of premiums estimated by the department, the employer shall be in default as provided by this title and the department may have and recover judgment, warrant, or file liens for such estimated premium or the actual premium, whichever is greater.

The director or the director's designee may compromise the amount of premiums estimated by the department, whether reduced to judgment or otherwise, arising under this title if collection of the premiums estimated by the department would be against equity and good conscience.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  RCW 51.48.070 and 1980 c 14 s 14 are each repealed.

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