BILL REQ. #:  S-0832.1 



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SENATE BILL 5685
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State of Washington58th Legislature2003 Regular Session

By Senators Honeyford, T. Sheldon and Mulliken

Read first time 02/06/2003.   Referred to Committee on Commerce & Trade.



     AN ACT Relating to nonemancipated minor minimum wages; and adding a new section to chapter 49.46 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   A new section is added to chapter 49.46 RCW to read as follows:
     An employer may pay a new employee, who is not an emancipated minor under chapter 13.64 RCW, an initial wage rate equal to the greater of seventy-five percent of the rate required under RCW 49.46.020 or the federal minimum wage rate.

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