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BILL · 2003–04 SESSION · LATEST VERSION SSB 5681

SB 5681: Minimum wages

Modifying minimum wage provisions.

Summary

  • The minimum wage rate must be adjusted by the rate of inflation for those months that the Washington employment rate was lower than the national employment rate. An employer may pay an employee who is under 18 and who is not an emancipated minor, 75 percent of the state minimum wage rate, or the federal minimum wage rate.

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Did not pass Did not pass · stalled on the Senate floor
  1. IntroducedFeb 6, 2003
  2. Out of committeeFeb 27, 2003
  3. Passed Senatestopped here
  4. Passed House
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Larry Sheahan (R-9)
Introduced
February 6, 2003 in the Senate
Last action
January 12, 2004
Versions
SB 5681, SSB 5681

AN ACT Relating to minimum wages;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Larry Sheahan (R-9)

4 co-sponsors (1 Democrat, 3 Republicans)

Senator D-35Senator R-15Patricia Hale R-8Joyce Mulliken R-13

Votes

No recorded floor votes.

History

  1. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status. (SSB 5681)
  2. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  3. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status. (SSB 5681)
  4. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  5. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status. (SSB 5681)
  6. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  7. Senate Rules "X" file. (SSB 5681)
  8. Senate Rules "X" file.
  9. Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. (SSB 5681)
  10. CT - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. (SSB 5681)
  11. Minority; do not pass. (SSB 5681)
  12. Minority; do not pass.
  13. CT - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
  14. Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
  15. First reading, referred to Commerce & Trade.

SB 5681 in other sessions

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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