CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                  SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6305

                    Chapter 62, Laws of 1994

                        53rd Legislature

                      1994 Regular Session

           MINORS‑-EMPLOYMENT AS ACTORS OR PERFORMERS

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  6/9/94

Passed by the Senate February 14, 1994   YEAS 47   NAYS 0 JOEL PRITCHARD President of the Senate Passed by the House March 1, 1994   YEAS 97   NAYS 0

CERTIFICATE I, Marty Brown, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6305 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

BRIAN EBERSOLE Speaker of the       House of Representatives

MARTY BROWN                             Secretary

Approved March 23, 1994 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED                      March 23, 1994 - 9:18 a.m.

MIKE LOWRY Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                    SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6305

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             Passed Legislature - 1994 Regular Session

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.

    Passed the Senate February 14, 1994.

    Passed the House March 1, 1994.

Approved by the Governor March 23, 1994.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 23, 1994.