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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 5603

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1989 Regular Session

By Senator Rasmussen

Read first time 1/30/89 and referred to Committee on   Economic Development & Labor.

AN ACT Relating to experience rating of the industrial insurance medical aid fund; adding a new section to chapter 51.16 RCW; repealing section 1, chapter 337, Laws of 1985 (uncodified); repealing section 2, chapter 337, Laws of 1985 (uncodified); and declaring an emergency.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 51.16 RCW to read as follows:

          Nothing in this chapter shall authorize the department to implement experience rating of medical aid fund premiums or the medical aid fund portion of a retrospective rating program.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  The following acts or parts of acts are each repealed:

                   (1) Section 1, chapter 337, Laws of 1985 (uncodified); and

          (2) Section 2, chapter 337, Laws of 1985 (uncodified).

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.     This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect January 1, 1989.