BILL REQ. #:  S-3680.1 

Read first time 01/14/08.   Referred to Committee on Labor, Commerce, Research & Development.

     AN ACT Relating to children working for their parents; and amending RCW 26.28.060.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 26.28.060 and 2007 c 464 s 1 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:
     (a) Actors or performers in film, video, audio, or theatrical productions; ((or))
     (b) Youth soccer referees who have been certified by a national referee certification program; or
     (c) Workers for, and under the supervision of, their parents.