With respect to the passage of section 107, chapter 333, Laws of 2021 (Substitute Senate Bill No. 5165), the board of pilotage commissioners is appropriated $2,926,000 from the pilotage account state appropriation solely for self-insurance liability premium expenditures. This appropriation is contingent upon two stipulated conditions:

(1) The Puget Sound pilots shall pay to the board, from its tariffs, $150,000 annually on July 1, 2021, and July 1, 2022. These amounts shall be deposited by the board into the pilotage account and used solely for the expenditure of self-insurance premiums; and

(2) A self-insurance premium surcharge of $16 shall be added to each Puget Sound pilotage assignment on all vessels requiring pilotage in the Puget Sound pilotage district. The Puget Sound pilots shall remit the total amount of such surcharges generated to the board by the tenth of each month. The surcharge shall be in effect from July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2023. These amounts shall be in addition to those fees to be paid to the board pursuant to subsection (1) of this section and shall be deposited by the board into the pilotage account solely for the expenditure of self-insurance premiums.

These two directives are in effect beginning May 18, 2021, through June 30, 2023.