CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
HOUSE BILL 1712
68TH LEGISLATURE
2023 REGULAR SESSION
Passed by the House March 6, 2023
  Yeas 96  Nays 0

Speaker of the House of Representatives
Passed by the Senate April 7, 2023
  Yeas 48  Nays 0

President of the Senate
CERTIFICATE
I, Bernard Dean, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1712 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

Chief Clerk
Chief Clerk
Approved
FILED
Secretary of State
State of Washington

HOUSE BILL 1712

Passed Legislature - 2023 Regular Session
State of Washington
68th Legislature
2023 Regular Session
ByRepresentatives Schmick and Chapman
Read first time 02/01/23.Referred to Committee on Labor & Workplace Standards.
AN ACT Relating to protecting workers displaced as a result of finfish aquaculture facility closures; and amending RCW 50.04.075.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 50.04.075 and 2018 c 179 s 11 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) With respect to claims with an effective date prior to July 1, 2012, "dislocated worker" means any individual who:
(a) Has been terminated or received a notice of termination from employment;
(b) Is eligible for or has exhausted entitlement to unemployment compensation benefits; and
(c) Is unlikely to return to employment in the individual's principal occupation or previous industry because of a diminishing demand for their skills in that occupation or industry.
(2) With respect to claims with an effective date on or after July 1, 2012, "dislocated worker" means any individual who:
(a) Has been involuntarily and indefinitely separated from employment as a result of a permanent reduction of operations at the individual's place of employment, has separated from a declining occupation, ((or)) has separated from employment as a result of chapter 179, Laws of 2018, or has separated from employment as a result of the denial of commercial finfish net pen aquaculture lease renewal applications or the issuance of order number 202211 by the commissioner of public lands on November 17, 2022; and
(b) Is eligible for or has exhausted entitlement to unemployment compensation benefits.
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