1201-S2 AAS 4/18/97 S2841.6

2SHB 1201 - S AMD - 429

By Senators Morton, Hargrove, Anderson and Snyder

                                                   ADOPTED 4/18/97

    On page 4, line 31, after "defined in" strike "RCW 43.31.601" and insert "((RCW 43.31.601)) this section"

2SHB 1201 - S AMD - 429

By Senators Morton, Hargrove, Anderson and Snyder

                                                   ADOPTED 4/18/97

    Beginning on page 5, line 38, after "employment" strike all material through "and" on page 6, line 2, and insert "((, resided in or was employed in a rural natural resources impact area defined in RCW 43.31.601 and determined by the office of financial management and the employment security department)) resides in a county with an unemployment rate for 1996 at least twenty percent or more above the state average and at least fifteen percent above their own county unemployment rate in 1988 and the county meets one of the following two criteria:

(A) It is a county with a lumber and woods products employment quotient at least three times the state average and has experienced actual job losses in these industries since 1988 of one hundred jobs or more or fifty or more jobs in a county with a population of forty thousand or less; or

(B) It is a county with a commercial salmon fishing employment quotient at least three times the state average and has experienced actual job losses in this industry since 1988 of one hundred jobs or more or fifty or more jobs in a county with a population of forty thousand or less; and

(I) The exhaustee has during his or her base year earned wages of at least one thousand hours; and

(II) The exhaustee is determined by the employment security department in consultation with its labor market and economic analysis division to be a displaced worker; or"

2SHB 1201 - S AMD - 429

By Senators Morton, Hargrove, Anderson and Snyder

                                                   ADOPTED 4/18/97

    On page 6, beginning on line 3, after "least" strike "six hundred eighty" and insert "((six hundred eighty)) one thousand"

    On page 6, line 17, after "unlikely" insert ", in the determination of the employment security department in consultation with its labor market and economic analysis division,"

    On page 6, line 31, after "training." insert "By April 1, 1998, the employment security department must redetermine a new list of eligible and ineligible counties based on a comparison of 1988 and 1997 employment rates.  Any changed eligibility status will apply only to new claims for regular unemployment insurance effective after April 1, 1998."

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