WA People
BILL · 2011–12 SESSION

HB 1597: Sufficient income for needs

Achieving economic security through income sufficient to meet basic needs.

Summary

  • Specifies that, if per capita personal income for Washington satisfies two conditions, the state minimum wage rate is adjusted using the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) plus 3 percent.

From the House Bill Report (HB 1597), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedJan 26, 2011
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Mark Miloscia (D-30)
Introduced
January 26, 2011 in the House
Last action
April 11, 2012
Budget
Has a fiscal note

AN ACT Relating to achieving economic security through income sufficient to meet basic needs;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Mark Miloscia (D-30)

12 co-sponsors (12 Democrats, 0 Republicans)

Tami Green D-28Timm Ormsby D-3Jim Moeller D-49Chris Reykdal D-22Senator D-22Mary Lou Dickerson D-36Sherry Appleton D-23Cindy Ryu D-32Bob Hasegawa D-11Eric Pettigrew D-37Joe Fitzgibbon D-34Phyllis Gutierrez Kenney D-46

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. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  4. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  5. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  6. Referred to General Government Appropriations & Oversight.
  7. Minority; do not pass.
  8. LWD - Majority; do pass.
  9. LWD - Executive action taken by committee.
  10. First reading, referred to Labor & Workforce Development.

HB 1597 in other sessions

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

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