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Informational hearing outlines plan to fund BOLI via Worker Benefit Fund assessments
Summary
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.
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).
Watanabe said the proposal was the product of a bipartisan, bicameral work group and is intended to replace temporary…
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