BILL · 2003–04 SESSION

SB 5685: Nonemancipated minor wages

Authorizing a reduced wage rate for nonemancipated minors.

Summary

An employer may pay a new employee, who is not an emancipated minor, an initial wage rate of the federal minimum wage rate or 75 percent of the adjusted state minimum wage rate.

From the Senate Bill Report (SB 5685), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to nonemancipated minor minimum wages;

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

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

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