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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2647
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State of Washington 56th Legislature 2000 Regular Session
By House Committee on Commerce & Labor (originally sponsored by Representatives Reardon, Scott, Cooper, Conway, Linville, Cairnes, Dunshee, Kagi, Campbell, Sullivan, Keiser, Kenney, Santos, Haigh and Hurst)
Read first time 02/03/2000. Referred to Committee on .
AN ACT Relating to safety devices for flaggers; adding a new section to chapter 49.17 RCW; creating new sections; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 49.17 RCW to read as follows:
All flaggers required to be certified under rules adopted under this chapter must be provided with devices that show a view of the area behind the flagger. The device must be of a type that gives the flagger adequate warning of objects approaching from behind the flagger.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. (1) To implement section 1 of this act, the department must adopt rules that take effect no later than the effective date of section 1 of this act, revising the signs, signals, and barricades standard governing flaggers. Rule adoption under this section is not subject to RCW 34.05.328.
(2) The director of the department of labor and industries may take the necessary steps to ensure that section 1 of this act is implemented on its effective date.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. The director of the department of labor and industries must report, by September 15, 2000, to the senate labor and workforce development committee and the house commerce and labor committee on the rules adopted under section 1 of this act.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 4. (1) Sections 1 and 3 of this act take effect July 1, 2000.
(2) Section 2 of 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 takes effect immediately.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 5. This act shall be known and cited as the "Kim Vendl Worker Safety Act."
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