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SB5381 • 2026
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from the self-insured employer after a self-insured group or municipal employer has their self-insurer certification withdrawn.
This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.
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Self-insurer withdrawal
By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
Self-insurer withdrawal
AN ACT Relating to establishing department authority to ensure 1 payment is received from the self-insured employer after a self-2 insured group or municipal employer has their self-insurer 3 certification withdrawn; and adding a new section to chapter 51.14 4 RCW. 5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:6 NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 51.14 7 RCW to read as follows: 8 (1) For self-insurers authorized under RCW 51.14.150 and self-9 insurers who are counties, cities, or municipal employers who have 10 their self-insurer status terminated by the director pursuant to RCW 11 51.14.080, the department shall fulfill the decertified self-insured 12 employer's obligations including paying compensation. The decertified 13 self-insured employer is liable to and shall reimburse the department 14 all payments made through periodic charges not less than quarterly in 15 a manner to be determined by the director. 16 (2) The director shall adopt rules to carry out the purposes of 17 this section including, but not limited to, rules regarding 18 continuing obligations of decertified self-insured employers and 19 Z-0152.1 SENATE BILL 5381 State of Washington 69th Legislature 2025 Regular Session By Senators Conway, Hasegawa, Nobles, and Saldaña; by request of Department of Labor & Industries Read first time 01/21/25. Referred to Committee on Labor & Commerce. p. 1 SB 5381 methods of how the self-insured employer shall meet financial 1 obligations. 2 --- END --- p. 2 SB 5381