CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1583

Chapter 390, Laws of 2007

60th Legislature
2007 Regular Session



AUTOMATIC SERVICE CHARGES--SERVERS



EFFECTIVE DATE: 07/22/07

Passed by the House March 12, 2007
  Yeas 91   Nays 7

FRANK CHOPP
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Speaker of the House of Representatives


Passed by the Senate April 13, 2007
  Yeas 41   Nays 3


BRAD OWEN
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President of the Senate
 
CERTIFICATE

I, Richard Nafziger, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1583 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.


RICHARD NAFZIGER
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Chief Clerk
Approved May 8, 2007, 4:45 p.m.








CHRISTINE GREGOIRE
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Governor of the State of Washington
 
FILED
May 10, 2007







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1583
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Passed Legislature - 2007 Regular Session
State of Washington60th Legislature2007 Regular Session

By House Committee on Commerce & Labor (originally sponsored by Representatives Moeller, Conway, Darneille, Wood, Green, Ormsby and Morrell)

READ FIRST TIME 2/28/07.   



     AN ACT Relating to disclosure of the percentage of automatic service charges paid to servers; and adding a new section to chapter 19.48 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   A new section is added to chapter 19.48 RCW to read as follows:
     (1) An employer that imposes an automatic service charge related to food, beverages, entertainment, or porterage provided to a customer must disclose in an itemized receipt and in any menu provided to the customer the percentage of the automatic service charge that is paid or is payable directly to the employee or employees serving the customer.
     (2) For purposes of this section:
     (a) "Employee" means nonmanagerial, nonsupervisory workers, including but not limited to servers, busers, banquet houseman, banquet captains, bartenders, barbacks, and porters.
     (b) "Employer" means employers as defined in RCW 49.46.010 that provide food, beverages, entertainment, or porterage, including but not limited to restaurants, catering houses, convention centers, and overnight accommodations.
     (c) "Service charge" means a separately designated amount collected by employers from customers that is for services provided by employees, or is described in such a way that customers might reasonably believe that the amounts are for such services. Service charges include but are not limited to charges designated on receipts as a "service charge," "gratuity," "delivery charge," or "porterage charge." Service charges are in addition to hourly wages paid or payable to the employee or employees serving the customer.


         Passed by the House March 12, 2007.
         Passed by the Senate April 13, 2007.
         Approved by the Governor May 8, 2007.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 10, 2007.