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                    SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6305

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State of Washington      53rd Legislature     1994 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Labor & Commerce (originally sponsored by Senators Snyder, Skratek, Roach, Nelson, Loveland, West, Winsley and M. Rasmussen)

Read first time 02/04/94.

Revising the process for employment of minors as actors or performers in film, video, or theatrical productions.

    AN ACT Relating to the employment of minors as actors or performers in film, video, or theatrical productions; amending RCW 26.28.060; and adding a new section to chapter 49.12 RCW.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

    Sec. 1.  RCW 26.28.060 and 1973 1st ex.s. c 154 s 39 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) Every person who shall employ, and every parent, guardian or other person having the care, custody or control of such child, who shall permit to be employed, by another, any child under the age of fourteen years at any labor whatever, in or in connection with any store, shop, factory, mine or any inside employment not connected with farm or house work, without the written permit thereto of a judge of a superior court of the county wherein such child may live, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(2) Subsection (1) of this section does not apply to children employed as actors or performers in film, video, audio, or theatrical productions.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 49.12 RCW to read as follows:

    For all minors employed as actors or performers in film, video, audio, or theatrical productions, the department shall issue a permit under RCW 49.12.121 and a variance under RCW 49.12.105 upon finding that the terms of the employment sufficiently protect the minor's health, safety, and welfare.  The findings shall be based on information provided to the department including, but not limited to, the minor's working conditions and planned work schedule, adult supervision of the minor, and any planned educational programs.

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