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BILL · 2015–16 SESSION

HB 1694: Thanksgiving day, working on

Addressing retail and service employees who work on Thanksgiving day.

Summary

  • Requires a retail or service establishment employer to pay each of its employees, for hours worked on Thanksgiving day, wages at a rate of three times the amount of the employee's hourly rate.

From the Bill Digest (HB 1694), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedJan 26, 2015
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Mike Sells (D-38)
Introduced
January 26, 2015 in the House
Last action
March 10, 2016

AN ACT Relating to retail and service employees who work on Thanksgiving day;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Mike Sells (D-38)

9 co-sponsors (9 Democrats, 0 Republicans)

Strom Peterson D-21Brady Walkinshaw D-43Joan McBride D-48Timm Ormsby D-3Joe Fitzgibbon D-34Senator D-22Chris Reykdal D-22Luis Moscoso D-1Gerry Pollet 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. First reading, referred to Labor (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1694 in other sessions

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