Concerning benefits authorized to be offered by the public employees' benefits board.

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SENATE BILL 5478

State of Washington

69th Legislature

2025 Regular Session

By Senators Bateman, Nobles, and Robinson; by request of Health Care Authority

Read first time 01/24/25. Referred to Committee on Health & Long-Term Care.

AN ACT Relating to benefits authorized to be offered by the public employees' benefits board; and amending RCW 41.05.065 .

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

Sec. 1. RCW 41.05.065 and 2018 c 260 s 12 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) The public employees' benefits board shall study all matters connected with the provision of health care coverage, life insurance, liability insurance, accidental death and dismemberment insurance, and disability income insurance or any of, or a combination of, the enumerated types of insurance for employees and their dependents on the best basis possible with relation both to the welfare of the employees and to the state. However, liability insurance shall not be made available to dependents.