SENATE BILL REPORT

HB 2303

 

As Reported By Senate Committee On:

Labor, Commerce & Financial Institutions, February 21, 2002

 

Title:  An act relating to correcting rate class 16 in schedule B by amending RCW 50.29.025 and making no other changes.

 

Brief Description:  Correcting rate class 16 in schedule B.

 

Sponsors:  Representatives Conway, Wood and Kenney; by request of Employment Security Department.

 

Brief History: 

Committee Activity:  Labor, Commerce & Financial Institutions:  2/21/02 [DP].

SENATE COMMITTEE ON LABOR, COMMERCE & FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

 

Majority Report:  Do pass.

Signed by Senators Prentice, Chair; Keiser, Vice Chair; Franklin, Gardner, Hochstatter, Rasmussen, Regala and Winsley.

 

Staff:  Joanne Conrad (786‑7472)

 

Background:  Employer contribution rates for the unemployment compensation fund are set in statute, and divided into various levels, called "schedules."  A clerical error exists in one rate class within Schedule B.

 

Summary of Bill:  A clerical error in rate class 16 in Schedule B of employer contribution rates is corrected from 3.69 to 3.42.

 

Appropriation:  None.

 

Fiscal Note:  Not requested.

 

Effective Date:  Ninety days after adjournment of session in which bill is passed.

 

Testimony For:  This bill is needed to correct an error in statute.

 

Testimony Against:  None.

 

Testified:  PRO:  Tammy Fellin, ESD; Clif Finch, AWB.