CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
HOUSE BILL 1275
69TH LEGISLATURE
2025 REGULAR SESSION
Passed by the House March 4, 2025 Yeas 95 Nays 0
Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 3, 2025 Yeas 49 Nays 0
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 1275 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.
Chief Clerk Chief Clerk |
Approved | FILED |
| Secretary of State State of Washington |
HOUSE BILL 1275
Passed Legislature - 2025 Regular Session
State of Washington | 69th Legislature | 2025 Regular Session |
ByRepresentatives Scott, Berry, Ramel, Reed, Ormsby, Parshley, Pollet, Simmons, and Hill; by request of Department of Labor & Industries
Read first time 01/14/25.Referred to Committee on Labor & Workplace Standards.
AN ACT Relating to establishing department authority to ensure payment is received from the self-insured employer after a self-insured group or municipal employer has their self-insurer certification withdrawn; and adding a new section to chapter
51.14 RCW.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter
51.14 RCW to read as follows:
(1) For self-insurers authorized under RCW
51.14.150 and self-insurers who are counties, cities, or municipal employers who have their self-insurer status terminated by the director pursuant to RCW
51.14.080, the department shall fulfill the decertified self-insured employer's obligations including paying compensation. The decertified self-insured employer is liable to and shall reimburse the department all payments made through periodic charges not less than quarterly in a manner to be determined by the director.
(2) The director shall adopt rules to carry out the purposes of this section including, but not limited to, rules regarding continuing obligations of decertified self-insured employers and methods of how the self-insured employer shall meet financial obligations.
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