2SHB 1788 — Concerning workers' compensation benefits.

What this bill does

Consolidates the worker's compensation calculation for workers who are permanently or temporarily totally disabled, and for workers' surviving spouses, and standardize payments between married and unmarried workers. Requires compensation equal to 2 percent of a worker's wages be paid to the person who has legal custody of a worker's or a worker's surviving spouse's child and reduces the worker's, or the worker's surviving spouse's payment proportionally.

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Floor votes

• House — 3rd Reading & Final Passage · March 5, 2025
  78 yea · 18 nay · 2 not voting
• Senate — 3rd Reading & Final Passage · April 15, 2025
  36 yea · 12 nay · 1 not voting

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