PDFWAC 363-116-301

New revenue collection.

With respect to the passage of Engrossed Substitute House Bill No. 1160, Section 108, the board of pilotage commissioners is appropriated three million one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars from the pilotage account state appropriation solely for self-insurance liability premium expenditures. This appropriation is contingent upon two stipulated conditions:
(1) The Puget Sound pilots shall pay to the board, from its tariffs, one hundred fifty thousand dollars annually on July 1, 2019, and July 1, 2020. These amounts shall be deposited by the board into the pilotage account and used solely for the expenditure of self-insurance premiums; and
(2) A self-insurance premium surcharge of sixteen dollars shall be added to each Puget Sound pilotage assignment on all vessels requiring pilotage in the Puget Sound pilotage district. The Puget Sound pilots shall remit the total amount of such surcharges generated to the board by the tenth of each month. The surcharge shall be in effect from July 1, 2019, through June 30, 2021. These amounts shall be in addition to those fees to be paid to the board pursuant to subsection (1) of this section and shall be deposited by the board into the pilotage account solely for the expenditure of self-insurance premiums.
These two directives are in effect beginning May 16, 2019, through June 30, 2021.
[Statutory Authority: Chapter 88.16 RCW. WSR 19-20-013, § 363-116-301, filed 9/20/19, effective 10/21/19; WSR 17-20-009, § 363-116-301, filed 9/22/17, effective 10/23/17.]