FINAL BILL REPORT

                 SHB 1282

                         C 297 L 99

                     Synopsis as Enacted

Brief Description:  Authorizing state agencies to offer incentives to state employees to relocate from one part of the state to another.

Sponsors:  By House Committee on State Government (Originally sponsored by Representatives Romero, Buck, Miloscia, Linville, Dickerson, Regala and Wolfe; by request of Commissioner of Public Lands).

House Committee on State Government

Senate Committee on Labor & Workforce Development

Background:

A state agency may pay for the costs of moving up to 12,000 pounds of household goods for a newly hired employee or an existing employee who is transferred.  The state is entitled to reimbursement for the costs of moving a new employee's household goods if the new employee terminates or causes termination of his or her employment with the state within one year of the employment.

Summary:

A state agency may pay lump sum relocation compensation to recruit and retain a qualified candidate for state employment whenever it is necessary that a person make a domiciliary move in accepting a transfer or other employment with the agency.  The payment of lump sum relocation compensation must be within existing resources of the agency.

If a person who received lump sum relocation assistance terminates or causes termination with the state within one year of the date of the employment, the state is eligible for reimbursement for the lump sum payment.

Votes on Final Passage:

House960

Senate432(Senate amended)

House960(House concurred)

Effective:July 25, 1999