1471-S AMH LISK H2575.1

SHB 1471 - H AMD TO APP COMM AMD (H-2479.2/91)  230 Withdrawn 3-18-91

By Representatives Lisk, Vance and Fuhrman

    On page 31, beginning on line 25 of the amendment, after "hour" strike all material through "years" on page 32, line 10, and insert "((.

    The director shall by regulation establish the minimum wage for employees under the age of eighteen years)), except that the wage rate is:

(a) Beginning on July 1, 1991, four dollars and seventy-five cents per hour;

(b) Beginning on January 1, 1992, five dollars and twenty-five cents per hour; and

(c) Beginning on April 1, 1993, and readjusted beginning on each April 1st thereafter, adjusted to the nearest cent which bears the ratio of its original amount that exists between the index for 1991 and the index for the calendar year prior to the year of adjustment.  For the purposes of this subsection "index" means the same as RCW 2.12.037(1).

(2) For employees under the age of eighteen years, the minimum wage rate shall be eighty-five percent of the rate applicable to persons over the age of eighteen years"