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Concerning industrial insurance coverage for posttraumatic stress disorders affecting correctional facility workers.

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SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5043

State of Washington

69th Legislature

2025 Regular Session

By Senate Labor & Commerce (originally sponsored by Senators Dhingra, Nobles, Conway, MacEwen, Saldaña, Lovick, Salomon, Stanford, Wagoner, J. Wilson, Shewmake, Trudeau, Valdez, Bateman, Liias, Chapman, Lovelett, Cleveland, Frame, Hasegawa, Orwall, Slatter, Wellman, and C. Wilson)

READ FIRST TIME 02/18/25.

AN ACT Relating to industrial insurance coverage for posttraumatic stress disorders affecting correctional facility workers; amending RCW 51.08.142 ; adding a new section to chapter 51.32 RCW; and providing an effective date.

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

Sec. 1. RCW 51.08.142 and 2023 c 370 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) Except as provided in subsections (2) and (3) of this section, the department shall adopt a rule pursuant to chapter 34.05 RCW that claims based on mental conditions or mental disabilities caused by stress do not fall within the definition of occupational disease in RCW 51.08.140 .

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