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BILL · 2009–10 SESSION · LATEST VERSION SSB 6456

SB 6456: Wage complaints

Improving administration of wage complaints.

Summary

  • When investigating a wage complaint, L&I is no longer required to issue a citation or determination of compliance within three years of the date when wages were due. Rather, L&I is prohibited from investigating a wage payment claim unless it is filed within three years of the date when the last wages were owed.

From the Senate Bill Report (Orig.) (SB 6456), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · stalled on the Senate floor
  1. IntroducedJan 14, 2010
  2. Out of committeeFeb 4, 2010
  3. Passed Senatestopped here
  4. Passed House
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Adam Kline (D-37)
Introduced
January 14, 2010 in the Senate
Last action
March 15, 2010
Companion bill
HB 2646
Budget
Has a fiscal note
Versions
SB 6456, SSB 6456

AN ACT Relating to improving administration of wage complaints by defining the limitations period for administrative wage claims through the department of labor and industries, clarifying the requirements for the department to extend the time period for wage complaint investigations, revising the department's bond authority, tolling the civil statute of limitations, increasing minimum penalties for violators, creating and affecting waiver of penalties for repeat willful violators, and providing for wage law violation liability for successor businesses;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Adam Kline (D-37)

5 co-sponsors (5 Democrats, 0 Republicans)

Karen Keiser D-33Debbie Regala D-27Jeanne Kohl-Welles D-36Rosa Franklin D-29Joe McDermott D-34

Votes

No recorded floor votes.

History

  1. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status. (SSB 6456)
  2. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  3. Senate Rules "X" file. (SSB 6456)
  4. Senate Rules "X" file.
  5. Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. (SSB 6456)
  6. LCCP - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. (SSB 6456)
  7. LCCP - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
  8. Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
  9. First reading, referred to Labor, Commerce & Consumer Protection.

SB 6456 in other sessions

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

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