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                                    ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1393

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State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

By House Committee on Commerce & Labor (originally sponsored by Representatives G. Cole, Heavey, King, Franklin, Jones, Dunshee, Romero, Quall, Thibaudeau, Veloria, Appelwick, R. Johnson, Wolfe, Wood, Rust, Pruitt, Leonard, Basich, Wineberry, Ogden, R. Meyers, Wang, Scott, Cothern, Kessler, Flemming, Johanson, Conway, J. Kohl and Anderson)

Read first time 03/03/93.

Providing for periodic adjustments of the state minimum wage.

          AN ACT Relating to periodic adjustments of the state minimum wage; amending RCW 49.46.020; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.

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

        Sec. 1.  RCW 49.46.020 and 1989 c 1 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) Every employer shall pay to each of his or her employees who has reached the age of eighteen years wages at a rate of not less than ((three dollars and eighty-five cents per hour except as may be otherwise provided under this section.  Beginning January 1, 1990, the state minimum wage shall be)) four dollars and ((twenty-five)) ninety cents per hour, except as otherwise provided in this section.

(2) On July 1, 1994, and on each July 1 thereafter, the department of labor and industries shall calculate an adjusted minimum wage to take effect on January 1 of the year following each July calculation.  The adjusted minimum wage shall be calculated by adjusting the amount specified in subsection (1) of this section to the nearest cent which bears the ratio of its original amount which is found to exist between the index for 1992 and the index for the calendar year prior to the year of adjustment.  For the purposes of this subsection, "index" means the same as the definition in RCW 2.12.037(1).

(3) The director shall by regulation establish the minimum wage for employees under the age of eighteen years.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect July 1, 1993.

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