CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL 1706
66TH LEGISLATURE
2019 REGULAR SESSION
Passed by the House April 23, 2019 Yeas 90 Nays 6
Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 17, 2019 Yeas 48 Nays 0
President of the Senate | CERTIFICATE I, Bernard Dean, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL 1706 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.
Chief Clerk Chief Clerk |
Approved | FILED |
| Secretary of State State of Washington |
ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL 1706
AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE
Passed Legislature - 2019 Regular Session
State of Washington | 66th Legislature | 2019 Regular Session |
ByRepresentatives Frame, Sells, Macri, Doglio, Gregerson, Riccelli, Callan, Jinkins, Goodman, Valdez, Bergquist, Kloba, and Pollet
Read first time 01/29/19.Referred to Committee on Labor & Workplace Standards.
AN ACT Relating to eliminating subminimum wage certificates for persons with disabilities; and adding a new section to chapter
49.46 RCW.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter
49.46 RCW to read as follows:
Beginning July 1, 2020, no state agency may employ an individual to work under a special certificate issued under RCW
49.12.110 and
49.46.060 for the employment of individuals with disabilities at less than the minimum wage. Any special certificate issued by the director to a state agency for the employment of an individual with a disability at less than minimum wage must expire by June 30, 2020. For the purposes of this section, "state agency" means any office, department, commission, or other unit of state government.
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