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WA Rev Code § 50.13.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 50 - Unemployment Compensation|Chapter 50.13 - Records and Information—Privacy and Confidentiality.|50.13.020 - Information or records deemed private and confidential—Exceptions.

RCW 50.13.020 Information or records deemed private and confidential—Exceptions.Any information or records concerning an individual or employing unit obtained by the employment security department pursuant to the administration of this title shall be private and confidential, except as otherwise provided in this chapter. This chapter does not create a rule of evidence. Information or records may be released by the employment security department when the release is:(1) Required by the federal government in connection with, or as a condition of funding for, a program being administered by the employment security department; or(2) Requested by a county clerk for the purposes of RCW 9.94A.760.The provisions of RCW 50.13.060(1) (a), (b) and (c) will not apply to such release.[ 2019 c 81 § 1; 2004 c 121 § 5; 1981 c 35 § 2; 1977 ex.s. c 153 § 2.]NOTES:Effective dates—Severability—1981 c 35: See notes following RCW 50.22.030.
WA Rev Code § 50.13.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 50 - Unemployment Compensation|Chapter 50.13 - Records and Information—Privacy and Confidentiality.|50.13.030 - Rules.

RCW 50.13.030 Rules.The commissioner shall have the authority to adopt, amend, or rescind rules interpreting and implementing the provisions of this chapter.[ 2019 c 81 § 2; 2005 c 274 § 320; 1977 ex.s. c 153 § 3.]
WA Rev Code § 50.13.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 50 - Unemployment Compensation|Chapter 50.13 - Records and Information—Privacy and Confidentiality.|50.13.040 - Access of individual or employing unit to records and information.

RCW 50.13.040 Access of individual or employing unit to records and information.(1) An individual shall have access to all records and information concerning that individual held by the employment security department, unless the information is exempt from disclosure under RCW 42.56.410.(2) An employing unit shall have access to its own records and to any records and information relating to a benefit claim by an individual if the employing unit is either the individual's last employer or is the individual's base year employer.(3) An employing unit shall have access to any records and information relating to any decision to allow or deny benefits if:(a) The decision is based on employment or an offer of employment with the employing unit; or(b) If the decision is based on material information provided by the employing unit.(4) An employing unit shall have access to general summaries of benefit claims by individuals whose benefits are chargeable to the employing unit's experience rating or reimbursement account.(5) The employment security department may disclose records and information deemed confidential under this chapter to a third party acting on behalf of an individual or employing unit that would otherwise be eligible to receive records under subsections (1) through (4) of this section when the employment security department receives a release from the individual, the employing unit, or the third party. The release must be signed and include a statement:(a) Specifically identifying the information that is to be disclosed;(b) That state government files will be accessed to obtain the information;(c) Of the specific purpose or purposes for which the information is sought and that the information obtained under the release will only be used for that purpose or purposes; and(d) Indicating all the parties who may receive the information disclosed.[ 2019 c 81 § 3; 2005 c 274 § 321; 1993 c 483 § 6; 1977 ex.s. c 153 § 4.]NOTES:Conflict with federal requirements—Severability—1993 c 483: See notes following RCW 50.04.293.
WA Rev Code § 50.13.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 50 - Unemployment Compensation|Chapter 50.13 - Records and Information—Privacy and Confidentiality.|50.13.050 - Access to records or information by interested party in proceeding before appeal tribunal or commissioner—Decisions not private and confidential, exception.

RCW 50.13.050 Access to records or information by interested party in proceeding before appeal tribunal or commissioner—Decisions not private and confidential, exception.(1) Any interested party, as defined by rule, in a proceeding before the appeal tribunal or commissioner shall have access to any information or records deemed private and confidential under this chapter if the information or records are material to the issues in that proceeding.(2) No decisions by the commissioner or the appeals tribunal shall be deemed private and confidential under this chapter unless the decisions are based on information obtained in a closed hearing.[ 1977 ex.s. c 153 § 5.]
WA Rev Code § 50.13.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 50 - Unemployment Compensation|Chapter 50.13 - Records and Information—Privacy and Confidentiality.|50.13.070 - Availability of records or information to parties to judicial or administrative proceedings—Discovery proceedings—Subpoenas.

RCW 50.13.070 Availability of records or information to parties to judicial or administrative proceedings—Discovery proceedings—Subpoenas.Information or records deemed private and confidential under this chapter shall be available to parties to judicial or formal administrative proceedings only upon a written finding by the presiding officer that the need for the information or records in the proceeding outweighs any reasons for the privacy and confidentiality of the information or records. Information or records deemed private and confidential under this chapter shall not be available in discovery proceedings unless the court in which the action has been filed has made the finding specified above. A judicial or administrative subpoena directed to the employment security department must contain this finding. A subpoena for records or information under this section must be submitted in a manner prescribed by the employment security department. The employment security department may recover costs of responding to subpoenas, consistent with 20 C.F.R. Sec. 603.8 (2012), for proceedings where the employment security department is not a party.[ 2019 c 81 § 5; 1977 ex.s. c 153 § 7.]
WA Rev Code § 50.13.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 50 - Unemployment Compensation|Chapter 50.13 - Records and Information—Privacy and Confidentiality.|50.13.080 - Disclosure of records or information to private persons or organizations contracting to assist in operation and management of department—Penalties.

RCW 50.13.080 Disclosure of records or information to private persons or organizations contracting to assist in operation and management of department—Penalties.(1) The employment security department shall have the right to disclose information or records deemed private and confidential under this chapter to any private person or organization when such disclosure is necessary to permit private contracting parties to assist in the operation and management of the employment security department in instances where certain employment security departmental functions may be delegated to private parties to increase the employment security department's efficiency or quality of service to the public. The private persons or organizations shall use the information or records solely for the purpose for which the information was disclosed and shall be bound by the same rules of privacy and confidentiality as employment security department employees.(2) Nothing in this section shall be construed as limiting or restricting the effect of RCW 42.56.070(8).[ 2019 c 81 § 6; 2005 c 274 § 323; 1996 c 79 § 2; 1977 ex.s. c 153 § 8.]NOTES:Conflict with federal requirements—Effective date—1996 c 79: See notes following RCW 50.13.060.
WA Rev Code § 50.13.090 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 50 - Unemployment Compensation|Chapter 50.13 - Records and Information—Privacy and Confidentiality.|50.13.090 - Disclosure of records or information to contracting governmental or private organizations.

RCW 50.13.090 Disclosure of records or information to contracting governmental or private organizations.Where the employment security department contracts to provide services to other governmental or private organizations, the department may disclose to those organizations information or records deemed private and confidential which have been acquired in the performance of the department's obligations under the contracts.[ 1977 ex.s. c 153 § 9.]
WA Rev Code § 50.13.100 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 50 - Unemployment Compensation|Chapter 50.13 - Records and Information—Privacy and Confidentiality.|50.13.100 - Disclosure of records or information where identifying details deleted or individual or employing unit consents.

RCW 50.13.100 Disclosure of records or information where identifying details deleted or individual or employing unit consents.Nothing in this chapter shall prevent the disclosure of information or records deemed private and confidential under this chapter if all details identifying an individual or employing unit are deleted so long as the information or records cannot be foreseeably combined with other publicly available information to reveal the identity of an individual or employing unit or the individual or employing unit consents to the disclosure in a manner prescribed by the employment security department.[ 2019 c 81 § 7; 1977 ex.s. c 153 § 10.]
WA Rev Code § 50.13.110 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 50 - Unemployment Compensation|Chapter 50.13 - Records and Information—Privacy and Confidentiality.|50.13.110 - Disclosure of confidential information—Duty to prevent—Prohibition—Penalties—Exemptions.

RCW 50.13.110 Disclosure of confidential information—Duty to prevent—Prohibition—Penalties—Exemptions.(1) All private persons, governmental agencies, and organizations authorized to receive information from the employment security department under this chapter have an affirmative obligation to take all reasonable actions necessary that are designed to prevent the disclosure of confidential information.(2) The disclosure of any records or information by a private person, governmental agency, or organization that obtained the records or information from the employment security department under this chapter is prohibited unless expressly permitted by this chapter.(3) If misuse or an unauthorized disclosure of confidential records or information occurs, all parties aware of the violation must inform the employment security department immediately and take all reasonably available actions to rectify the disclosure to the employment security department's standards.(4) The misuse or unauthorized disclosure of records or information deemed private and confidential under this chapter by any private person, governmental agency, or organization to which access is permitted by this chapter shall subject the person, governmental agency, or organization to a civil penalty of up to twenty thousand dollars in 2018 and annually adjusted by the employment security department on the first calendar day of each year based on changes in the United States consumer price index for all urban consumers. Other applicable sanctions under state and federal law also apply. The amount of any penalties collected shall be paid into the employment security department administrative contingency fund. The attorney general may recover reasonable attorneys' fees for any action brought to enforce this section.(5) Any redisclosure of information obtained under this chapter by a private person, governmental agency, or organization must be expressly permitted by the employment security department prior to redisclosure. Failure to obtain prior approval by the employment security department could subject the private person, governmental agency, or organization to the penalties described in subsection (4) of this section.(6) State and local governmental agencies and federally recognized Indian tribes as defined in Title 26 U.S.C. Sec. 3306(u) of the federal unemployment tax act are exempt from the penalties described in subsection (4) of this section if the redisclosure is necessary for the state, local, or tribal government to conduct a criminal prosecution.[ 2019 c 81 § 8.]
WA Rev Code § 50.13.120 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 50 - Unemployment Compensation|Chapter 50.13 - Records and Information—Privacy and Confidentiality.|50.13.120 - Administration and oversight of this chapter—Agency privacy officer—Report to governor and legislature.

RCW 50.13.120 Administration and oversight of this chapter—Agency privacy officer—Report to governor and legislature.(1) The employment security department shall designate an agency privacy officer to oversee the administration of this chapter and chapter 50A.25 RCW. In coordination with the state office of privacy and data protection, the agency privacy officer must:(a) Develop an agency personal information minimization policy to reduce the use and retention of personal information wherever possible;(b) Create a work plan that includes the estimated costs of execution for the following:(i) An inventory of all personal information prepared, owned, used, or retained by the employment security department, that would include the specific type of information, the purpose for its collection, and the extent to which the information is protected from unauthorized access; and(ii) A map of the physical or digital location of all personal information collected by the employment security department, indexed to the inventory created in (b)(i) of this subsection; and(c) Report the work plan created under (b) of this subsection to the state office of privacy and data protection annually.(2) Any inventory or data map records created under subsection (1)(b) of this section that reveal the location of personal information or the extent to which it is protected may not be disclosed under the public records act, chapter 42.56 RCW.(3) On December 1st of each odd-numbered year, the employment security department must report to the governor and the legislature on the implementation and maintenance of this section, including best practices and recommendations for developing and implementing the employment security department's policy and plan under this section.(4) For purposes of this section, "personal information" means any information obtained by the employment security department deemed private and confidential under this chapter and chapter 50A.25 RCW.[ 2019 c 81 § 9.]
WA Rev Code § 50.13.130 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 50 - Unemployment Compensation|Chapter 50.13 - Records and Information—Privacy and Confidentiality.|50.13.130 - Application to information obtained by the employment security department under Title 50A RCW.

RCW 50.13.130 Application to information obtained by the employment security department under Title 50A RCW.Except for RCW 50.13.120, the provisions of this chapter do not apply to information obtained by the employment security department under Title 50A RCW.[ 2019 c 81 § 11.]
WA Rev Code § 50.13.900 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 50 - Unemployment Compensation|Chapter 50.13 - Records and Information—Privacy and Confidentiality.|50.13.900 - Construction.

RCW 50.13.900 Construction.Any ambiguities in this chapter shall be construed in a manner consistent with federal laws applying to the employment security department. If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof is held invalid by a final decision of any court or declared by the secretary of the department of labor of the United States to be inconsistent with federal laws upon which funding of the employment security department is contingent, the invalid or inconsistent provision shall be ineffective only to the extent necessary to insure compliance with the court decision or federal determination and the remainder of the chapter shall be given full effect.[ 1977 ex.s. c 153 § 11.]
WA Rev Code § 50.16.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 50 - Unemployment Compensation|Chapter 50.16 - Funds.|50.16.040 - Management of funds upon discontinuance of federal unemployment trust fund.

RCW 50.16.040 Management of funds upon discontinuance of federal unemployment trust fund.The provisions of this title, to the extent that they relate to the unemployment trust fund, shall be operative only so long as such unemployment trust fund continues to exist and so long as the secretary of the treasury of the United States of America continues to maintain for this state a separate book account of all funds deposited therein for this state for benefit purposes, together with this state's proportionate share of the earnings of such unemployment trust fund, from which no other state is permitted to make withdrawals. If and when such unemployment trust fund ceases to exist, or such separate book account is no longer maintained, all moneys, properties or securities therein, belonging to the unemployment compensation fund of this state shall be transferred to the treasurer of the unemployment compensation fund, who shall hold, invest, transfer, sell, deposit, and release such moneys, properties, or securities in a manner approved by the commissioner, in accordance with the provisions of this title: PROVIDED, That such moneys shall be invested in the following readily marketable classes of securities: Bonds or other interest bearing obligations of the United States of America: AND PROVIDED FURTHER, That such investment shall at all times be made so that all the assets of the fund shall always be readily convertible into cash when needed for the payment of benefits. The treasurer shall dispose of securities or other properties belonging to the unemployment compensation fund only under the direction of the commissioner.[ 1945 c 35 § 63; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 9998-201. Prior: 1941 c 253 § 7.]
WA Rev Code § 50.16.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 50 - Unemployment Compensation|Chapter 50.16 - Funds.|50.16.050 - Unemployment compensation administration fund.

RCW 50.16.050 Unemployment compensation administration fund.(1) There is hereby established a fund to be known as the unemployment compensation administration fund. Except as otherwise provided in this section, all moneys which are deposited or paid into this fund are hereby made available to the commissioner. All moneys in this fund shall be expended solely for the purpose of defraying the cost of the administration of this title, and for no other purpose whatsoever. All moneys received from the United States of America, or any agency thereof, for said purpose pursuant to section 302 of the social security act, as amended, shall be expended solely for the purposes and in the amounts found necessary by the secretary of labor for the proper and efficient administration of this title. All moneys received from the United States employment service, United States department of labor, for said purpose pursuant to the act of congress approved June 6, 1933, as amended or supplemented by any other act of congress, shall be expended solely for the purposes and in the amounts found necessary by the secretary of labor for the proper and efficient administration of the public employment office system of this state. The unemployment compensation administration fund shall consist of all moneys received from the United States of America or any department or agency thereof, or from any other source, for such purpose. All moneys in this fund shall be deposited, administered, and disbursed by the treasurer of the unemployment compensation fund under rules and regulations of the commissioner and none of the provisions of RCW 43.01.050 shall be applicable to this fund. The treasurer last named shall be the treasurer of the unemployment compensation administration fund and shall give a bond conditioned upon the faithful performance of his or her duties in connection with that fund. All sums recovered on the official bond for losses sustained by the unemployment compensation administration fund shall be deposited in said fund.(2) Notwithstanding any provision of this section:(a) All money requisitioned and deposited in this fund pursuant to RCW 50.16.030(6) shall remain part of the unemployment compensation fund and shall be used only in accordance with the conditions specified in RCW 50.16.030 (4), (5) and (6).(b) All money deposited in this fund pursuant to RCW 50.38.065 shall be used only after appropriation and only for the purposes of RCW 50.38.060.[ 2010 c 8 § 13020; 1993 c 62 § 8; 1959 c 170 § 3; 1947 c 215 § 13; 1945 c 35 § 64; Rem. Supp. 1947 § 9998-202. Prior: 1941 c 253 § 7; 1939 c 214 § 11; 1937 c 162 § 13.]NOTES:Conflict with federal requirements—1993 c 62: See RCW 50.38.901.
WA Rev Code § 50.16.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 50 - Unemployment Compensation|Chapter 50.16 - Funds.|50.16.060 - Replacement of federal funds.

RCW 50.16.060 Replacement of federal funds.The state of Washington hereby pledges that it will replace within a reasonable time any moneys paid to this state under Title III of the social security act, and the Wagner-Peyser act, which, because of any action or contingency, have been lost or have been expended for purposes other than, or in amounts in excess of, those found necessary by the secretary of labor for the proper administration of the Washington employment security act.[ 1959 c 170 § 4; 1945 c 35 § 67; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 9998-205.]