BILL · 2005–06 SESSION

SB 5774: Employee wages & benefits

Modifying employee wage and benefit provisions.

Summary

Employees who receive tips and are hired after the effective date of this bill, may be paid a base wage of 50 percent of the state minimum wage. Existing tipped employees' wage will be frozen at $7.35, the current minimum wage, until such time as their wage equals 50 percent of the state minimum wage.

From the Senate Bill Report (SB 5774), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to employee wages and benefits;

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.

SB 5774 (2025–26) Investment income/B&O tax · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5774 (2023–24) Fingerprint backgr. checks · Enacted · Chapter 300, Laws of 2024
SB 5774 (2021–22) War on terror monument · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5774 (2019–20) Student debt · Did not pass · passed Senate, stalled in House
SB 5774 (2017–18) Labor relations violations · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5774 (2015–16) Prevailing wage surveys · Did not pass · stalled on the Senate floor
SB 5774 (2013–14) Alcohol tasting/age 18 · Enacted · Chapter 59, Laws of 2013
SB 5774 (2011–12) Cascadia & Lake Wash Tech · Did not pass · died in committee