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WA Rev Code § 73.16.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 73 - Veterans and Veterans' Affairs|Chapter 73.16 - Employment and Reemployment.|73.16.020 - Failure to comply—Infraction.

RCW 73.16.020 Failure to comply—Infraction.All officials or other persons having power to appoint to or employment in the public service set forth in RCW 73.16.010, are charged with a faithful compliance with its terms, both in letter and in spirit, and a failure therein shall be a class 1 civil infraction.[ 1987 c 456 § 30; 1895 c 84 § 2; RRS § 10754.]NOTES:Legislative finding—1987 c 456: See RCW 7.80.005.Effective date—1987 c 456 §§ 9 through 31: See RCW 7.80.901.
WA Rev Code § 73.16.032 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 73 - Veterans and Veterans' Affairs|Chapter 73.16 - Employment and Reemployment.|73.16.032 - Employment rights—Prohibited actions.

RCW 73.16.032 Employment rights—Prohibited actions.(1) A person who is a member of, applies to be a member of, performs, has performed, applies to perform, or has an obligation to perform service in a uniformed service shall not be denied initial employment, retention in employment, promotion, or any benefit of employment by an employer on the basis of that membership, application for membership, performance of service, application for service, or obligation.(2) An employer may not discriminate in employment against or take any adverse employment action against any person because such person (a) has taken an action to enforce a protection afforded any person under this chapter, (b) has testified or otherwise made a statement in or in connection with any proceeding under this chapter, (c) has assisted or otherwise participated in an investigation under this chapter, or (d) has exercised a right provided for in this chapter. The prohibition in this subsection (2) applies with respect to a person regardless of whether that person has performed service in the uniformed services.(3) An employer shall be considered to have engaged in actions prohibited:(a) Under subsection (1) of this section, if the person's membership, application for membership, service, application for service, or obligation for service in the uniformed services is a motivating factor in the employer's action, unless the employer can prove that the action would have been taken in the absence of such membership, application for membership, service, application for service, or obligation for service; or(b) Under subsection (2) of this section if the person's (i) action to enforce a protection afforded any person under this chapter, (ii) testimony or making of a statement in or in connection with any proceeding under this chapter, (iii) assistance or other participation in an investigation under this chapter, or (iv) exercise of a right provided for in this chapter, is a motivating factor in the employer's action, unless the employer can prove that the action would have been taken in the absence of such person's enforcement action, testimony, statement, assistance, participation, or exercise of a right.[ 2001 c 133 § 4.]NOTES:Effective date—2001 c 133: See note following RCW 73.16.005.
WA Rev Code § 73.16.033 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 73 - Veterans and Veterans' Affairs|Chapter 73.16 - Employment and Reemployment.|73.16.033 - Reemployment of returned veterans.

RCW 73.16.033 Reemployment of returned veterans.Any person who is a resident of this state or is employed within this state, and who voluntarily or upon order from competent authority, vacates a position of employment for service in the uniformed services, shall, provided he or she meets the requirements of RCW 73.16.035, be reemployed forthwith: PROVIDED, That the employer need not reemploy such person if circumstances have so changed such that reemployment would be impossible or unreasonable due to a change in the employer's circumstances, or would impose an undue hardship on the employer: PROVIDED FURTHER, That this section shall not apply to a temporary position.If such person is still qualified to perform the duties of his or her former position, he or she shall be restored to that position or to a position of like seniority, status and pay. If he or she is not so qualified as a result of disability sustained during his or her service in the uniformed services, but is nevertheless qualified to perform the duties of another position, under the control of the same employer, he or she shall be reemployed in such other position: PROVIDED, That such position shall provide him or her with like seniority, status, and pay, or the nearest approximation thereto consistent with the circumstances of the case.[ 2001 c 133 § 5; 1953 c 212 § 2.]NOTES:Effective date—2001 c 133: See note following RCW 73.16.005.
WA Rev Code § 73.16.041 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 73 - Veterans and Veterans' Affairs|Chapter 73.16 - Employment and Reemployment.|73.16.041 - Leaves of absence of elective and judicial officers.

RCW 73.16.041 Leaves of absence of elective and judicial officers.When any elective officer of this state or any political subdivision thereof, including any judicial officer, shall enter upon active service or training as provided in RCW 73.16.031, 73.16.033 and 73.16.035, the proper officer, board or other agency, which would ordinarily be authorized to grant leave of absence or fill a vacancy created by the death or resignation of the elective official so ordered to such service, shall grant an extended leave of absence to cover the period of such active service or training and may appoint a temporary successor to the position so vacated. No leave of absence provided for herein shall operate to extend the term for which the occupant of any elective position shall have been elected.[ 1953 c 212 § 4.]
WA Rev Code § 73.16.051 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 73 - Veterans and Veterans' Affairs|Chapter 73.16 - Employment and Reemployment.|73.16.051 - Restoration without loss of seniority or benefits.

RCW 73.16.051 Restoration without loss of seniority or benefits.Any person who is entitled to be restored to a position in accordance with this chapter shall be considered as having been on furlough or leave of absence, from his or her position of employment, during his or her period of active military duty or service, and he or she shall be so restored without loss of seniority. He or she shall further be entitled to participate in insurance, vacations, retirement pay, and other benefits offered by the employer pursuant to established rules and practices relating to employees on furlough or leave of absence in effect with the employer at the time such person was ordered into the service; and he or she shall not be discharged from such position without cause within one year after restoration.[ 2001 c 133 § 7; 1953 c 212 § 5.]NOTES:Effective date—2001 c 133: See note following RCW 73.16.005.
WA Rev Code § 73.16.053 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 73 - Veterans and Veterans' Affairs|Chapter 73.16 - Employment and Reemployment.|73.16.053 - Continuation of health plan coverage during absence—Reinstatement of health plan coverage upon reemployment.

RCW 73.16.053 Continuation of health plan coverage during absence—Reinstatement of health plan coverage upon reemployment.(1) If a person, or the person's dependents, have coverage under a health plan in connection with the person's position of state employment, and the person is absent from his or her position of state employment by reason of service in the uniformed services, the plan shall provide that the person may elect to continue the coverage as provided in this section. The maximum period of coverage of a person and person's dependents under such an election shall be the lesser of:(a) The eighteen-month period beginning on the date on which the person's absence begins; or(b) The day after the date on which the person fails to apply for or return to a position of state employment, as determined under RCW 73.16.035.(2) A person who elects to continue health plan coverage under this section may be required to pay not more than one hundred two percent of the full premium under the plan associated with the coverage for the state employer's other employees, except that in the case of a person who performs service in the uniformed services for less than thirty-one days, the person may not be required to pay more than the employee share, if any, for the coverage.(3) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, if a person's coverage under a health plan was terminated because of service in the uniformed services, an exclusion or waiting period may not be imposed in connection with the reinstatement of the coverage upon reemployment under this chapter if an exclusion or waiting period would not have been imposed under a health plan had coverage of the person by the plan not been terminated as a result of his or her service. This subsection applies to the person who is reemployed and to any dependent who is covered by the plan because of the reinstatement of the coverage of the person.[ 2001 c 133 § 8.]NOTES:Effective date—2001 c 133: See note following RCW 73.16.005.
WA Rev Code § 73.16.061 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 73 - Veterans and Veterans' Affairs|Chapter 73.16 - Employment and Reemployment.|73.16.061 - Enforcement of provisions.

RCW 73.16.061 Enforcement of provisions.(1) If any employer, or any employer's successor or successors, fails or refuses to comply with the provisions of RCW 73.16.031 through 73.16.061 and 73.16.090, the attorney general must bring action in the superior court in the county in which the employer is located or does business to obtain an order to specifically require such employer to comply with the provisions of this chapter, and, as an incident thereto, to compensate such person for any loss of wages or benefits suffered by reason of such employer's unlawful act if:(a) The service in question was state duty not covered by the uniformed services employment and reemployment rights act of 1994, P.L. 103-353 (38 U.S.C. Sec. 4301 et seq.); and(b) The adjutant general of the Washington state military department, or his or her designee, has inquired with the employer regarding the matter and has been unable to resolve it.(2) If the conditions in subsection (1)(a) and (b) of this section are met, any such person who does not desire the services of the attorney general may, by private counsel, bring such action.[ 2016 c 12 § 1; 2013 c 23 § 190; 2001 c 133 § 10; 1953 c 212 § 6.]NOTES:Effective date—2001 c 133: See note following RCW 73.16.005.
WA Rev Code § 73.16.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 73 - Veterans and Veterans' Affairs|Chapter 73.16 - Employment and Reemployment.|73.16.070 - Federal act to apply in state courts.

RCW 73.16.070 Federal act to apply in state courts.The federal uniformed services employment and reemployment rights act, P.L. 103-353, as amended, is hereby specifically declared to apply in proper cases in all the courts of this state.[ 2014 c 65 § 7; 2001 c 133 § 11; 1941 c 201 § 5; Rem. Supp. 1941 § 10758-7.]NOTES:Effective date—2001 c 133: See note following RCW 73.16.005.
WA Rev Code § 73.16.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 73 - Veterans and Veterans' Affairs|Chapter 73.16 - Employment and Reemployment.|73.16.080 - Bona fide executive, administrative, and professional employees—Offset of military pay.

RCW 73.16.080 Bona fide executive, administrative, and professional employees—Offset of military pay.An offset of any military pay for temporary service in the uniformed services in a particular week against the salary of a bona fide executive, administrative, or professional employee in a particular week shall not be a factor in determining whether the employee is exempt under *RCW 49.46.010(5)(c).[ 2001 c 133 § 12.]NOTES:*Reviser's note: RCW 49.46.010 was alphabetized pursuant to RCW 1.08.015(2)(k), changing subsection (5) to subsection (3).Effective date—2001 c 133: See note following RCW 73.16.005.
WA Rev Code § 73.16.090 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 73 - Veterans and Veterans' Affairs|Chapter 73.16 - Employment and Reemployment.|73.16.090 - Application of chapter—Other rights and benefits preserved.

RCW 73.16.090 Application of chapter—Other rights and benefits preserved.This chapter shall not supersede, nullify, or diminish any federal or state law, ordinance, rule, regulation, contract, agreement, policy, plan, practice, or other matter that establishes a right or benefit that is more beneficial to, or is in addition to, a right or benefit provided for such person in this chapter.[ 2001 c 133 § 13.]NOTES:Effective date—2001 c 133: See note following RCW 73.16.005.
WA Rev Code § 73.16.100 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 73 - Veterans and Veterans' Affairs|Chapter 73.16 - Employment and Reemployment.|73.16.100 - Legislative declaration—Other civil actions abolished.

RCW 73.16.100 Legislative declaration—Other civil actions abolished.The legislature declares that the public policies articulated in chapter 133, Laws of 2001 depend on the procedures established in chapter 133, Laws of 2001. No civil or criminal action may be maintained relying on the public policies articulated in chapter 133, Laws of 2001 without complying with the procedures in this chapter. To that end, all civil actions and civil causes of action for such injuries and all jurisdiction of the courts of this state over such causes are hereby abolished, except as provided in this chapter.[ 2001 c 133 § 14.]NOTES:Effective date—2001 c 133: See note following RCW 73.16.005.
WA Rev Code § 73.16.110 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 73 - Veterans and Veterans' Affairs|Chapter 73.16 - Employment and Reemployment.|73.16.110 - Preference in private employment—Permissive.

RCW 73.16.110 Preference in private employment—Permissive.(1) The legislature intends to establish a permissive preference in private employment for certain veterans.(2) In every private, nonpublic employment in this state, honorably discharged soldiers, sailors, and marines who are veterans of any war of the United States, or of any military campaign for which a campaign ribbon has been awarded, and their widows or widowers, may be preferred for employment. Spouses of honorably discharged veterans who have a service connected permanent and total disability may also be preferred for employment. These preferences are not considered violations of any state or local equal employment opportunity law, including but not limited to any statute or regulation adopted under chapter 49.60 RCW.(3) "Veteran" has the same meanings as defined in RCW 41.04.005 and 41.04.007, and includes a current member of the national guard or armed forces reserves who has been deployed to serve in an armed conflict.[ 2011 c 144 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 73.16.120 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 73 - Veterans and Veterans' Affairs|Chapter 73.16 - Employment and Reemployment.|73.16.120 - Veteran employment demonstration campaign.

RCW 73.16.120 Veteran employment demonstration campaign.(1) The department of veterans affairs, employment security department, and department of commerce shall consult local chambers of commerce, associate development organizations, and businesses to initiate a demonstration campaign to increase veteran employment. This campaign may include partnerships with chambers of commerce that result in business owners sharing, with the local chamber of commerce, information on the number of veterans employed and the local chambers of commerce providing this information to the department of veterans affairs.(2) Participants in the campaign are encouraged to work with the Washington state military transition council and county veterans' advisory boards as defined in RCW 73.08.035.(3) Funding for the campaign shall be established from existing resources.(4) For the purposes of this section, "veteran" means any veteran discharged under honorable conditions.[ 2015 c 57 § 2.]NOTES:Findings—Intent—2015 c 57: "The legislature finds that veterans are national heroes who have made great sacrifices in their lives for the protection of our nation. The legislature recognizes that many of these veterans reside in Washington where there are a high number of military installations.Over six hundred thousand veterans reside in Washington. The legislature finds that the unemployment rate among these veterans is of great concern, particularly among young veterans. In 2014, the unemployment rate for veterans between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five was approximately twenty-one percent, despite having such diverse and valued skill sets, including expertise in fields such as health care or technology, and strong discipline and leadership abilities.The legislature recognizes the importance of facilitating and focusing on the hiring of our veterans.For these reasons, the legislature intends to create a statewide campaign to increase veteran employment in Washington by engaging state agencies, local governments, and businesses." [ 2015 c 57 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 73.16.900 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 73 - Veterans and Veterans' Affairs|Chapter 73.16 - Employment and Reemployment.|73.16.900 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.

RCW 73.16.900 Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.For the purposes of this chapter, the terms spouse, marriage, marital, husband, wife, widow, widower, next of kin, and family shall be interpreted as applying equally to state registered domestic partnerships or individuals in state registered domestic partnerships as well as to marital relationships and married persons, and references to dissolution of marriage shall apply equally to state registered domestic partnerships that have been terminated, dissolved, or invalidated, to the extent that such interpretation does not conflict with federal law. Where necessary to implement chapter 521, Laws of 2009, gender-specific terms such as husband and wife used in any statute, rule, or other law shall be construed to be gender neutral, and applicable to individuals in state registered domestic partnerships.[ 2009 c 521 § 172.]
WA Rev Code § 73.20.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 73 - Veterans and Veterans' Affairs|Chapter 73.20 - Acknowledgments and Powers of Attorney.|73.20.050 - Agency created by power of attorney not revoked by unverified report of death.

RCW 73.20.050 Agency created by power of attorney not revoked by unverified report of death.No agency created by a power of attorney in writing given by a principal who is at the time of execution, or who, after executing such power of attorney, becomes either (1) a member of the armed forces of the United States, or (2) a person serving as a merchant seaman outside the limits of the United States, included within the forty-eight states and the District of Columbia; or (3) a person outside said limits by permission, assignment or direction of any department or official of the United States government, in connection with any activity pertaining to or connected with the prosecution of any war in which the United States is then engaged, shall be revoked or terminated by the death of the principal, as to the agent or other person who, without actual knowledge or actual notice of the death of the principal, shall have acted or shall act, in good faith, under or in reliance upon such power of attorney or agency, and any action so taken, unless otherwise invalid or unenforceable, shall be binding on the heirs, devisees, legatees, or personal representatives of the principal.[ 1945 c 139 § 1; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 10758-70.]NOTES:Severability—1945 c 139: "If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance be held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect any other provision or application of the act which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this act are declared to be severable." [ 1945 c 139 § 5.]
WA Rev Code § 73.20.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 73 - Veterans and Veterans' Affairs|Chapter 73.20 - Acknowledgments and Powers of Attorney.|73.20.060 - Affidavit of agent as to knowledge of revocation.

RCW 73.20.060 Affidavit of agent as to knowledge of revocation.An affidavit, executed by the attorney-in-fact or agent, setting forth that the maker of the power of attorney is a member of the armed forces of the United States or within the class of persons described in RCW 73.20.050, and that he or she has not or had not, at the time of doing any act pursuant to the power of attorney, received actual knowledge or actual notice of the revocation or termination of the power of attorney, by death or otherwise, or notice of any facts indicating the same, shall, in the absence of fraud, be conclusive proof of the nonrevocation or nontermination of the power at such time. If the exercise of the power requires execution and delivery of any instrument which is recordable under the laws of this state, such affidavit shall likewise be recordable.[ 2012 c 117 § 507; 1945 c 139 § 2; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 10758-71.]
WA Rev Code § 73.20.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 73 - Veterans and Veterans' Affairs|Chapter 73.20 - Acknowledgments and Powers of Attorney.|73.20.070 - "Missing in action" report not construed as actual knowledge.

RCW 73.20.070 "Missing in action" report not construed as actual knowledge.No report or listing, either official or otherwise, of "missing" or "missing in action", as such words are used in military parlance, shall constitute or be interpreted as constituting actual knowledge or actual notice of the death of such principal or notice of any facts indicating the same, or shall operate to revoke the agency.[ 1945 c 139 § 3; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 10758-72.]
WA Rev Code § 73.20.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 73 - Veterans and Veterans' Affairs|Chapter 73.20 - Acknowledgments and Powers of Attorney.|73.20.080 - Provision in power for revocation not affected.

RCW 73.20.080 Provision in power for revocation not affected.RCW 73.20.050 through 73.20.070 shall not be construed so as to alter or affect any provision for revocation or termination contained in such power of attorney.[ 1945 c 139 § 4; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 10758-73.]
WA Rev Code § 73.24.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 73 - Veterans and Veterans' Affairs|Chapter 73.24 - Burial.|73.24.020 - Contract for care of veterans' plot at Olympia.

RCW 73.24.020 Contract for care of veterans' plot at Olympia.The director of the department of enterprise services is hereby authorized and directed to contract with Olympia Lodge No. 1, F.& A.M., a corporation for the improvement and perpetual care of the state veterans' plot in the Masonic cemetery at Olympia; such care to include the providing of proper curbs and walks, cultivating, reseeding and fertilizing grounds, repairing and resetting the bases and monuments in place on the ground, leveling grounds, and transporting and setting headstones for graves of persons hereafter buried on the plot.[ 2011 1st sp.s. c 43 § 257; 1937 c 36 § 1; RRS § 10758-1.]NOTES:Effective date—Purpose—2011 1st sp.s. c 43: See notes following RCW 43.19.003.Cemeteries, endowment and nonendowment care: Chapters 68.40, 68.44 RCW.
WA Rev Code § 73.24.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 73 - Veterans and Veterans' Affairs|Chapter 73.24 - Burial.|73.24.030 - Authorized burials in plot.

RCW 73.24.030 Authorized burials in plot.The said plot shall be available, to the extent such space is available, without charge or cost for the burial of persons who have served in the army, navy, or marine corps in the United States, in the Spanish-American war, Philippine insurrection, or the Chinese Relief Expedition, or who served in any said branches of said service at any time between April 21, 1898 and July 4, 1902 and any veteran as defined in RCW 41.04.007.[ 2002 c 292 § 10; 1977 c 31 § 4; 1937 c 36 § 2; RRS § 10758-2.]