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                                         SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL NO. 6629

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1990 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Economic Development & Labor (originally sponsored by Senator Lee)

Read first time 2/2/90.

AN ACT Relating to the exemption of the developmentally disabled from prevailing wage provisions; and amending RCW 39.12.020.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 1, chapter 63, Laws of 1945 as last amended by section 7, chapter 12, Laws of 1989 and RCW 39.12.020 are each amended to read as follows:

          The hourly wages to be paid to laborers, workers, or mechanics, upon all public works and under all public building service maintenance contracts of the state or any county, municipality or political subdivision created by its laws, shall be not less than the prevailing rate of wage for an hour's work in the same trade or occupation in the locality within the state where such labor is performed.  For a contract in excess of ten thousand dollars, a contractor required to pay the prevailing rate of wage shall post in a location readily visible to workers at the job site:  PROVIDED, That on road construction, sewer line, pipeline, transmission line, street, or alley improvement projects for which no field office is needed or established, a contractor may post the prevailing rate of wage statement at the contractor's local office, gravel crushing, concrete, or asphalt batch plant as long as the contractor provides a copy of the wage statement to any employee on request:

          (1) A copy of a statement of intent to pay prevailing wages approved by the industrial statistician of the department of labor and industries under RCW 39.12.040; and

          (2) The address and telephone number of the industrial statistician of the department of labor and  industries where a complaint or inquiry concerning prevailing wages may be made.

          This chapter shall not apply to workers or other persons regularly employed on monthly or per diem salary by the state, or any county, municipality, or political subdivision created by its laws.

This chapter shall not apply to any person who is developmentally disabled as defined in RCW 71A.10.020(2) and employed in a sheltered workshop as defined in RCW 82.04.385.  Such persons shall be paid in accordance with 29 C.F.R. 525 issued pursuant to section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.