Committee hears L&I request to allow electronic notices with opt-out

Substitute Senate Bill 6,039, an agency-request bill from the Department of Labor and Industries, would allow the department to send notices electronically in various programs if recipients are given the opportunity to opt out.

Trudy Stango briefed the committee that the bill is a companion to House Bill 2406 and represents an administrative modernization: "This is the bill that allows the Department of Labor and Industries to provide notices in various programs electronically. And before they do, they have to give the recipient an option to opt out of that method of communication."

Senator Curtis King, the prime sponsor, described SB 6,039 as a "simple bill" and asked for support. Tammy Fellan from L&I said the substitute version was identical to the committee-passed version in the House and indicated the Senate passed the substitute unanimously; she described the measure as costing nothing and commended it to the committee.

The committee took no roll-call vote on SB 6,039 in public session and closed the hearing after agency testimony.