2SHB 1788: Concerning workers' compensation benefits.
Signed into law: Chapter 168, Laws of 2025
- Sponsor
- Richards
- Introduced
- February 3, 2025
- Status
- C 168 L 25
- Last action
- Effective date 7/1/2026. (April 25, 2025)
- As of
- October 16, 2026, 5:15 AM Pacific, from the Legislature’s records
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, 202578 yea · 18 nay · 2 not voting
- Senate: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · April 15, 202536 yea · 12 nay · 1 not voting
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