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BILL · 2009–10 SESSION

SB 5463: Minimum wage & overtime comp

Creating a good faith defense for certain minimum wage and overtime compensation complaints.

Summary

  • An employer is not subject to liability or penalty for failing to pay minimum wages or overtime compensation if the employer establishes that he or she acted in good faith and conformity with and reliance on a rule related to any wage payment requirement; a written order, ruling, approval, opinion, advice, determination, or interpretation of the Director of the Department; or an interpretive or administrative…

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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedJan 22, 2009
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed Senate
  4. Passed House
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Janéa Holmquist Newbry (R-13)
Introduced
January 22, 2009 in the Senate
Last action
March 15, 2010
Companion bill
HB 2176
Budget
Has a fiscal note

AN ACT Relating to minimum wage and overtime compensation complaints;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Janéa Holmquist Newbry (R-13)

9 co-sponsors (0 Democrats, 9 Republicans)

Mike Hewitt R-16Curtis King R-14Senator R-15Cheryl Pflug R-5Pam Roach R-31Jerome Delvin R-8Val Stevens R-39Mark Schoesler R-9Dan Swecker R-20

Votes

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

History

  1. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  2. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  3. First reading, referred to Labor, Commerce & Consumer Protection.

SB 5463 in other sessions

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