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BILL · 2023–24 SESSION · LATEST VERSION SSB 5894

SB 5894: Equal pay/protected classes

Including protected classes in the Washington equal pay and opportunities act.

Summary

  • Extends the prohibitions on discrimination in wages and career advancement opportunities and the remedies to a person's membership in a protected class.
  • Provides that protected class means a person's age, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship or immigration status, honorably discharged veteran or military status, or the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability or the use of a trained guide dog or service animal by a person with a disability.

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Did not pass Did not pass · stalled on the Senate floor
  1. IntroducedJan 8, 2024
  2. Out of committeeJan 30, 2024
  3. Passed Senatestopped here
  4. Passed House
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
T'wina Nobles (D-28)
Introduced
January 8, 2024 in the Senate
Last action
February 15, 2024
Companion bill
HB 1905
Budget
Has a fiscal note
Versions
SB 5894, SSB 5894

AN ACT Relating to including protected classes in the Washington equal pay and opportunities act;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: T'wina Nobles (D-28)

13 co-sponsors (13 Democrats, 0 Republicans)

Karen Keiser D-33Noel Frame D-36Bob Hasegawa D-11Patty Kuderer D-48Marko Liias D-21Liz Lovelett D-40Joe Nguyen D-34Emily Randall D-26Rebecca Saldaña D-37Derek Stanford D-1Yasmin Trudeau D-27Javier Valdez D-46Claire Wilson D-30

Votes

No recorded floor votes.

History

  1. Senate Rules "X" file. (SSB 5894)
  2. Senate Rules "X" file.
  3. Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. (SSB 5894)
  4. Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
  5. LC - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. (SSB 5894)
  6. Minority; without recommendation. (SSB 5894)
  7. Minority; without recommendation.
  8. LC - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
  9. First reading, referred to Labor & Commerce.
  10. Prefiled for introduction.

SB 5894 in other sessions

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