Informational hearing outlines plan to fund BOLI via Worker Benefit Fund assessments
Representatives and agency officials outlined House Bill 4,027, a proposal to use the Worker Benefit Fund (WBF) infrastructure to establish a long‑term funding stream for the Bureau of Labor and Industries. The concept phases in shared assessments beginning Jan. 1, 2027, caps funded positions, and aims to protect the workers' compensation fund from cross-subsidization.
The full story
At an informational hearing Feb. 2, 2025, Representative Mari Watanabe and agency officials described House Bill 4,027 (dash‑1), which would use the Department of Consumer and Business Services' Worker Benefit Fund (WBF) infrastructure to create a separate fund to support the Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI).
Sign up to keep reading.
Your free newsletter brings you what your city council, county, and school board discussed and decided.
Keep reading for free
Create a free account to finish this story and see the video, transcript and key details.
Continue with GoogleContinue with emailAlready have an account? Log in