H-1485.1
SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1682
State of Washington
69th Legislature
2025 Regular Session
By House Labor & Workplace Standards (originally sponsored by Representatives Ortiz-Self, Berry, Simmons, Gregerson, Doglio, Reed, Scott, and Pollet)
READ FIRST TIME 02/20/25.
AN ACT Relating to part-time workers in the unemployment insurance system; amending RCW 50.20.100 and 50.20.119 ; and adding a new section to chapter 50.20 RCW.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 50.20.100 and 2021 c 2 s 11 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) Suitable work for an individual is employment in an occupation in keeping with the individual's prior work experience, education, or training and if the individual has no prior work experience, special education, or training for employment available in the general area, then employment which the individual would have the physical and mental ability to perform. In determining whether work is suitable for an individual, the commissioner shall also consider the degree of risk involved to the individual's health, safety, and morals, the degree of risk to the health of those residing with the individual during a public health emergency, the individual's physical fitness, the individual's length of unemployment and prospects for securing local work in the individual's customary occupation, the distance of the available work from the individual's residence, and such other factors as the commissioner may deem pertinent, including state and national emergencies.