CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1350
Chapter
322, Laws of 1995
54th
Legislature
1995
Regular Session
UNEMPLOYMENT
COMPENSATION‑-VOLUNTARY EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTIONS
EFFECTIVE
DATE: 7/23/95
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Passed by
the House April 19, 1995
Yeas 96 Nays 0
CLYDE BALLARD
Speaker
of the
House
of Representatives
Passed by
the Senate April 5, 1995
Yeas 44 Nays 0
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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
1350 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the
dates hereon set forth.
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JOEL PRITCHARD
President
of the Senate
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TIMOTHY A. MARTIN
Chief
Clerk
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Approved
May 11, 1995 Place Style On Codes above, and Style
Off Codes below.
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FILED
May
11, 1995 - 1:14 p.m.
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MIKE LOWRY
Governor
of the State of Washington
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Secretary
of State
State
of Washington
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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1350
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AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE
Passed Legislature - 1995 Regular Session
State of Washington 54th Legislature 1995
Regular Session
By
Read first time 02/16/95.
Authorizing
voluntary contributions for unemployment insurance.
AN ACT Relating to
authorizing voluntary contributions for unemployment insurance; adding a new
section to chapter 50.29 RCW; and creating a new section.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE
LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec.
1. A new section is added
to chapter 50.29 RCW to read as follows:
(1) Beginning with
contributions assessed for rate year 1996, a qualified employer's contribution
rate determined under RCW 50.29.025 may be modified as follows:
(a) Subject to the
limitations of this subsection, an employer may make a voluntary contribution
of an amount equal to part or all of the benefits charged to the employer's
account during the two years most recently ended on June 30th that were used
for the purpose of computing the employer's contribution rate. On receiving
timely payment of a voluntary contribution, plus a surcharge of ten percent of
the amount of the voluntary contribution, the commissioner shall cancel the
benefits equal to the amount of the voluntary contribution, excluding the
surcharge, and compute a new benefit ratio for the employer. The employer
shall then be assigned the contribution rate applicable to the rate class
within which the recomputed benefit ratio is included. The minimum amount of a
voluntary contribution, excluding the surcharge, must be an amount that will
result in a recomputed benefit ratio that is in a rate class at least two rate
classes lower than the rate class that included the employer's original benefit
ratio.
(b) Payment of a
voluntary contribution is considered timely if received by the department
during the period beginning on the date of mailing to the employer the notice
of contribution rate required under this title for the rate year for which the
employer is seeking a modification of his or her contribution rate and ending
on February 15th of that rate year.
(c) A benefit ratio may
not be recomputed nor a contribution rate be reduced under this section as a
result of a voluntary contribution received after the payment period prescribed
in (b) of this subsection.
(2) This section does
not apply to any employer who has not had an increase of at least six rate
classes from the previous tax rate year.
NEW SECTION. Sec.
2. If any part of this act
is found to be in conflict with federal requirements that 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 that 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.
Passed
the House April 19, 1995.
Passed
the Senate April 5, 1995.
Approved by the Governor May 11, 1995.
Filed in Office of
Secretary of State May 11, 1995.