BILL REQ. #:  S-0573.1 

Read first time 02/02/2005.   Referred to Committee on Labor, Commerce, Research & Development.

     AN ACT Relating to requiring newspapers to comply with child labor laws; and amending RCW 49.12.185 and 49.12.320.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 49.12.185 and 1973 2nd ex.s. c 16 s 17 are each amended to read as follows:
     This chapter ((16, Laws of 1973 2nd ex. sess.)) shall not apply to ((newspaper vendors or carriers and)) domestic or casual labor in or about private residences and agricultural labor as defined in RCW 50.04.150((, as now or hereafter amended)).

Sec. 2   RCW 49.12.320 and 1989 c 216 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:
     For the purposes of RCW 49.12.300 and 49.12.310:
     (1) "Employ" includes to engage, suffer, or permit to work, but does not include voluntary or donated services performed for no compensation, or without expectation or contemplation of compensation as the adequate consideration for the services performed, for an educational, charitable, religious, state or local government body or agency, or nonprofit organization, or services performed by a ((newspaper vendor or a)) person in the employ of his or her parent or stepparent.
     (2) "House-to-house sales" includes a sale or other transaction in consumer goods, the demonstration of products or equipment, the obtaining of orders for consumer goods, or the obtaining of contracts for services, in which the employee personally solicits the sale or transaction at a place other than the place of business of the employer.