Washington State House of Representatives Office of Program Research | BILL ANALYSIS |
Commerce & Labor Committee |
HB 2649
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Brief Description: Correcting references in RCW 50.29.021(2)(c)(i), (c)(ii), and (3)(e), RCW 50.29.062(2)(b)(i)(B) and (2)(b)(iii), and RCW 50.29.063(1)(b) and (2)(a)(ii) to unemployment insurance statutes concerning employer experience rating accounts and contribution rates.
Sponsors: Representatives Green, Conway, Moeller and Williams; by request of Employment Security Department.
Brief Summary of Bill |
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Hearing Date: 1/13/10
Staff: Jill Reinmuth (786-7134).
Background:
Legislation in 2009 amended and restructured multiple sections of the Employment Security Act.
One of the amended sections lists reasons a person is not disqualified from receiving unemployment benefits if he or she quits work. The legislation did not correct references to that section in a different section that lists circumstances in which benefits are noncharged or charged only to the separating employer's experience rating account.
Another of the amended sections specifies how contribution rates are determined. The legislation did not correct references to that section in different sections that specify how successor employer contribution rates are computed.
Summary of Bill:
Corrections are made to references to certain sections of the Employment Security Act that were amended and restructured in 2009.
Appropriation: None.
Fiscal Note: Available.
Effective Date: The bill contains an emergency clause and takes effect immediately.