HOUSE BILL REPORT

SB 6761

BYSenators Newhouse and Barr; by request of Employment Security Department

Revising the implementation date for voluntary combined reporting for agricultural employers.

House Committe on Commerce & Labor

Majority Report:  Do pass.  (11)

      Signed by Representatives Vekich, Chair; Cole, Vice Chair; Smith, Ranking Republican Member; Forner, Jones, R. King, Leonard, O'Brien, Prentice, Walker and Wolfe.

House Staff:Chris Cordes (786-7117)

AS REPORTED BY COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE & LABOR FEBRUARY 23, 1990

BACKGROUND:

In 1989, the Legislature directed the Employment Security Department, the Department of Labor and Industries, the Department of Licensing, and the Department of Revenue to develop a plan for implementing voluntary combined reporting for agricultural employers on January 1, 1991. In the plan submitted to the Legislature, the departments recommended that the implementation date for voluntary combined reporting be changed to January 1, 1992.

SUMMARY:

The implementation date for voluntary combined reporting for agricultural employers who report to the Employment Security Department, the Department of Labor and Industries, the Department of Licensing, and the Department of Revenue is changed to January 1, 1992.

Fiscal Note:      Available.

House Committee ‑ Testified For:    Lucille Christenson, Office of Financial Management; and Graeme Sackrison, Employment Security Department.

House Committee - Testified Against:      No one.

House Committee - Testimony For:    The interagency committee has completed the first stages of planning for the voluntary combined reporting program.  However, the committee needs to present possible policy options to the Legislature and needs to review the need for funding the program.  This can best be accomplished in the 1991 legislative session.  The program can then be implemented in 1992.

House Committee - Testimony Against:      None.