Promoting transparency in certain industrial insurance rate increases.

 H-2634.1

HOUSE BILL 2188

State of Washington

69th Legislature

2026 Regular Session

By Representatives Schmidt, Dufault, Abbarno, McEntire, Jacobsen, Ybarra, Barnard, Graham, and Couture

Prefiled 12/23/25. Read first time 01/12/26. Referred to Committee on Labor & Workplace Standards.

AN ACT Relating to promoting transparency in certain industrial insurance rate increases; amending RCW 51.16.035 ; and creating a new section.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. (1) The legislature finds that:

(a) Open and transparent governance is an absolute necessity for any state program. With it, the people the government serves are fully informed of its successes and can appropriately address its shortfalls. In its absence, failures continue onward unchecked. At a minimum, the lack of transparent decision making shakes the public's confidence in the state;