CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2891

                        53rd Legislature

                      1994 Regular Session

Passed by the House March 5, 1994   Yeas 93   Nays 0 Speaker of the       House of Representatives Passed by the Senate March 2, 1994   Yeas 48   Nays 0

CERTIFICATE I, Marilyn Showalter, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2891 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

President of the Senate

Chief Clerk

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Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2891

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                     AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

             Passed Legislature - 1994 Regular Session

State of Washington      53rd Legislature     1994 Regular Session

By House Committee on Education (originally sponsored by Representatives Dorn and Springer)

Read first time 02/04/94.

Providing medical aid benefits coverage for school district-sponsored work-based learning experiences.

    AN ACT Relating to school district-sponsored, nonpaid, work-based learning experiences; adding a new section to chapter 51.12 RCW; creating a new section; and providing an effective date.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 51.12 RCW to read as follows:

    (1) An employer covered under this title may elect to include student volunteers as employees or workers for all purposes relating to medical aid benefits under chapter 51.36 RCW.  The employer shall give notice of its intent to cover all of its student volunteers to the director prior to the occurrence of the injury or contraction of an occupational disease.

    (2) A student volunteer is an enrolled student in a public school as defined in RCW 28A.150.010 who is participating as a volunteer under a program authorized by the public school.  The student volunteer shall perform duties for the employer without wages.  The student volunteer shall be deemed to be a volunteer even if the student is granted maintenance and reimbursement for actual expenses necessarily incurred in performing his or her assigned or authorized duties.  A person who earns wages for the services performed is not a student volunteer.

    (3) Any and all premiums or assessments due under this title on account of service by a student volunteer shall be paid by the employer who has registered and accepted the services of volunteers and has exercised its option to secure the medical aid benefits under chapter 51.36 RCW for the student volunteers.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  The task force on school-to-work transitions created under RCW 28A.630.866 shall develop guidelines for nonpaid work-based learning experiences for student volunteers.  The task force shall report its finding to the superintendent of public instruction not later than December 14, 1994.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.  Section 1 of this act shall take effect October 1, 1994.  The department of labor and industries may take such steps as are necessary to ensure that this section is implemented on its effective date.

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