CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

              ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1393

                   Chapter 309, Laws of 1993

                        53rd Legislature

                      1993 Regular Session

                     MINIMUM WAGE INCREASED

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  1/1/94

Passed by the House April 23, 1993   Yeas 65   Nays 35 BRIAN EBERSOLE Speaker of the        House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 16, 1993   Yeas 27   Nays 19

CERTIFICATE I, Alan Thompson, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1393 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

JOEL PRITCHARD President of the Senate

ALAN THOMPSON                                Chief Clerk

Approved May 12, 1993 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED                            May 12, 1993 - 10:34 a.m.

MIKE LOWRY Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                        State of Washington

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                                    ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1393

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                                                           AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

                                                       Passed Legislature - 1993 Regular Session

State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

By House Committee on Commerce & Labor (originally sponsored by Representatives G. Cole, Heavey, King, Franklin, Jones, Dunshee, Romero, Quall, Thibaudeau, Veloria, Appelwick, R. Johnson, Wolfe, Wood, Rust, Pruitt, Leonard, Basich, Wineberry, Ogden, R. Meyers, Wang, Scott, Cothern, Kessler, Flemming, Johanson, Conway, J. Kohl and Anderson)

Read first time 03/03/93.

Providing for periodic adjustments of the state minimum wage.

          AN ACT Relating to periodic adjustments of the state minimum wage; amending RCW 49.46.020; and providing an effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

        Sec. 1.  RCW 49.46.020 and 1989 c 1 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) Every employer shall pay to each of his or her employees who has reached the age of eighteen years wages at a rate of not less than ((three dollars and eighty-five cents per hour except as may be otherwise provided under this section.  Beginning January 1, 1990, the state minimum wage shall be)) four dollars and ((twenty-five)) ninety cents per hour.

(2) The director shall by regulation establish the minimum wage for employees under the age of eighteen years.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  This act shall take effect January 1, 1994.

          Passed the House April 23, 1993.

          Passed the Senate April 16, 1993.

Approved by the Governor May 12, 1993.

          Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 12, 1993.