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SENATE BILL 6739
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State of Washington 54th Legislature 1996 Regular Session
By Senators Hargrove, Loveland, Owen, Franklin, Drew, Smith and Kohl
Read first time 01/30/96. Referred to Committee on Ways & Means.
AN ACT Relating to state workers' salaries that are more than twenty-five percent behind the prevailing rates for their job classes; and creating new sections.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The department of personnel conducts a biennial salary survey of state workers. That survey indicates that several thousand state employees are significantly behind their counterparts in the private sector and other public sector jurisdictions.
It is the intent of this act to raise the salaries of all state workers who are more than twenty-five percent behind the prevailing rates for their job classes to salaries that are no more than twenty‑five percent behind the prevailing rates.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. No later than June 30, 1997, the salaries of state workers in job classes that are thirty percent behind the prevailing rates for those job classes, as listed on the survey published in June 1995 by the senate committee on ways and means, shall be raised to a level that is no more than twenty-five percent behind the prevailing rates for those job classes.
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