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HB 289                                                                                                                        
The House Special Committee on Fisheries considered:                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
     HOUSE BILL NO. 289                                                                                                         
     "An Act exempting employers from paying unemployment tax for                                                               
     crewmembers on fishing vessels that respond or prepare to                                                                  
     respond to, or that prepare for or engage in an emergency or                                                               

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     practice drill response to, an oil spill; and providing for an                                                             
     effective date."                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
and recommends it be replaced with:                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
     CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 289(FSH)                                                                                             
     "An Act exempting employers from paying unemployment tax for                                                               
     temporary services provided by fishing vessel crewmembers and                                                              
     related to emergency oil spill training and response activities; and                                                       
     providing for an effective date."                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
The report was signed by Representative Seaton, Chair, with the                                                                 
following individual recommendations:                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
Do pass (4):  Holmes, Edgmon, Johansen, Seaton                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
The following fiscal note(s) apply to CSHB 289(FSH):                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
1.  Indeterminate, Dept. of Labor & Workforce Development                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
HB 289 was referred to the Labor & Commerce Committee.