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                                          SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL NO. 1300

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1989 Regular Session

By House Committee on Commerce & Labor (originally sponsored by Representatives Vekich, Winsley, Leonard, Baugher, R. King, Gallagher, Sayan, Cole, Walk, Prentice and Heavey)

Read first time 2/22/89.

AN ACT Relating to industrial insurance medical aid fund premiums; and amending RCW 51.16.140.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 51.16.140, chapter 23, Laws of 1961 as last amended by section 29, chapter 350, Laws of 1977 ex. sess. and RCW 51.16.140 are each amended to read as follows:

          ((Every employer who is not a self-insurer shall deduct from the pay of each of his or her workers one-half of the amount he or she is required to pay, for medical benefits within each risk classification.  Such amount shall be periodically determined by the director and reported by him or her to all employers under this title:  PROVIDED, That the state governmental unit shall pay the entire amount into the medical aid fund for volunteers, as defined in RCW 51.12.035, and the state apprenticeship council shall pay the entire amount into the medical aid fund for registered apprentices or trainees, for the purposes of RCW 51.12.130.))  It shall be unlawful for the employer, unless specifically authorized by this title, to deduct or obtain any part of the premium or other costs required to be paid by him or her ((paid)) from the wages or earnings of any of his or her workers, and the making of or attempt to make any such deduction shall be a gross misdemeanor.