BILL REQ. #:  S-2012.1 

Read first time 03/03/2003.   Referred to Committee on Commerce & Trade.

     AN ACT Relating to improving the industrial insurance system administered by the department of labor and industries; and creating a new section.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   The legislature finds that the industrial insurance system administered by the department of labor and industries should be improved, using methods that meet all of the following goals:
     (1) The improvements should treat workers fairly;
     (2) The improvements should promote a sound and stable financial basis for the system; and
     (3) The improvements should produce a system that is capable of being administered efficiently and cost-effectively.