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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 6525

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1990 Regular Session

By Senators Lee, Smitherman and Rasmussen; by request of Employment Security Department

Read first time 1/17/90 and referred to Committee on  Economic Development & Labor.

AN ACT Relating to deductions from unemployment compensation weekly benefits amounts for earnings from temporary employment; amending RCW 50.20.130; creating a new section; and providing an effective date.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 81, chapter 35, Laws of 1945 as last amended by section 12, chapter 23, Laws of 1983 1st ex. sess. and RCW 50.20.130 are each amended to read as follows:

          If an eligible individual is available for work for less than a full week, he or she shall be paid his or her weekly benefit amount reduced by one-seventh of such amount for each day that he or she is unavailable for work:  PROVIDED, That if ((he)) the individual is unavailable for work for three days or more of a week, he or she shall be considered unavailable for the entire week.

          Each eligible individual who is unemployed in any week shall be paid with respect to such week a benefit in an amount equal to his or her weekly benefit amount less seventy-five percent of that part of the remuneration (if any) payable to him or her with respect to such week which is in excess of ((five)) twenty-five dollars.  Such benefit, if not a multiple of one dollar, shall be reduced to the next lower multiple of one dollar.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.     If any part of this act is found to be in conflict with federal requirements that are a prescribed condition to the allocation of federal funds to the state or the eligibility of employers in this state for federal unemployment tax credits, the conflicting part of this act is hereby declared to be inoperative solely to the extent of the conflict, and such finding or determination shall not affect the operation of the remainder of this act.  The rules under this act shall meet federal requirements that are a necessary condition to the receipt of federal funds by the state or the granting of federal unemployment tax credits to employers in this state.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.     This act shall take effect July 1, 1990.