CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
HOUSE BILL 1712
Chapter 156, Laws of 2023
68TH LEGISLATURE
2023 REGULAR SESSION
DISLOCATED WORKERS—FINFISH AQUACULTURE FACILITY CLOSURE
EFFECTIVE DATE: July 23, 2023
Passed by the House March 6, 2023 Yeas 96 Nays 0 LAURIE JINKINS
Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 7, 2023 Yeas 48 Nays 0 DENNY HECK
President of the Senate | CERTIFICATE I, Bernard Dean, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1712 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth. BERNARD DEAN
Chief Clerk Chief Clerk |
Approved April 20, 2023 2:55 PM | FILED April 21, 2023 |
JAY INSLEE
Governor of the State of Washington | Secretary of State State of Washington |
HOUSE BILL 1712
Passed Legislature - 2023 Regular Session
State of Washington | 68th Legislature | 2023 Regular Session |
ByRepresentatives Schmick and Chapman
Read first time 02/01/23.Referred to Committee on Labor & Workplace Standards.
AN ACT Relating to protecting workers displaced as a result of finfish aquaculture facility closures; and amending RCW
50.04.075.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW
50.04.075 and 2018 c 179 s 11 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) With respect to claims with an effective date prior to July 1, 2012, "dislocated worker" means any individual who:
(a) Has been terminated or received a notice of termination from employment;
(b) Is eligible for or has exhausted entitlement to unemployment compensation benefits; and
(c) Is unlikely to return to employment in the individual's principal occupation or previous industry because of a diminishing demand for their skills in that occupation or industry.
(2) With respect to claims with an effective date on or after July 1, 2012, "dislocated worker" means any individual who:
(a) Has been involuntarily and indefinitely separated from employment as a result of a permanent reduction of operations at the individual's place of employment, has separated from a declining occupation, ((or)) has separated from employment as a result of chapter 179, Laws of 2018, or has separated from employment as a result of the denial of commercial finfish net pen aquaculture lease renewal applications or the issuance of order number 202211 by the commissioner of public lands on November 17, 2022; and
(b) Is eligible for or has exhausted entitlement to unemployment compensation benefits.
Passed by the House March 6, 2023.
Passed by the Senate April 7, 2023.
Approved by the Governor April 20, 2023.
Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 21, 2023.
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