SENATE BILL REPORT

SB 6309

As Reported By Senate Committee On:

Labor, Commerce & Financial Institutions, January 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:  Senators Prentice, Winsley and Fairley; by request of Employment Security Department.

Brief History:

Committee Activity:  Labor, Commerce & Financial Institutions:  1/21/02 [DP].

SENATE COMMITTEE ON LABOR, COMMERCE & FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

Majority Report:  Do pass.

Signed by Senators Prentice, Chair; Keiser, Vice Chair; Fairley, Franklin, Gardner, Rasmussen 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 the statutory schedule.

Testimony Against:  None.

Testified:  Tammy Fellin, Employment Security Department.