BILL REQ. #:  S-1645.3 

READ FIRST TIME 02/22/07.   

     AN ACT Relating to allowing industrial insurance claimants to designate a representative to receive the claimants' notices, orders, or warrants; and amending RCW 51.04.080.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 51.04.080 and 1972 ex.s. c 43 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
     On all claims under this title, claimants' written notices, orders, or warrants ((shall not be forwarded to, or in care of, any representative of the claimant, but shall)) must be forwarded directly to the claimant until such time as there has been entered an order on the claim appealable to the board of industrial insurance appeals. Claimants' written notices, orders, or warrants may be forwarded to the claimant in care of a representative before an order has been entered if the claimant sets forth in writing the name and address of the representative to whom the claimant desires this information to be forwarded.