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SENATE BILL 5467
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State of Washington 53rd Legislature 1993 Regular Session
By Senators Prentice, Pelz, Skratek, A. Smith, Moore, Fraser, Franklin and Quigley
Read first time 01/29/93. Referred to Committee on Labor & Commerce.
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 cents per hour,
except that the wage rate shall be:
(a) Beginning on July 1, 1993, five dollars per hour;
(b) Beginning on July 1, 1994, five dollars and seventy-five cents per hour; and
(c) Beginning on July 1, 1995, and readjusted beginning on each July 1 thereafter, fifty percent of the state average annual wage, as calculated under RCW 50.04.355, divided by two thousand eighty. In determining the rate under this subsection, any fractional part of a cent shall be adjusted to the nearest whole cent.
(2) 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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