Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Relating to: exemptions from minimum wage, overtime pay, and recordkeeping requirements for minor league baseball players.
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- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Assembly, not reached
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What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
Currently, the state minimum wage law requires that employers pay the applicable minimum wage set in statute to their employees and that employers keep certain records that include hours of employment and wages for employees. This bill exempts from these requirements individuals who have entered into a contract to play minor league baseball and who are compensated under a collective bargaining agreement that expressly provides for wages and working conditions.
Also under current law, the Department of Workforce Development must classify by rule periods of work as periods to be paid at an employee’s regular rate of pay and periods to be paid at an overtime rate of at least one and one−half times that regular rate. DWD has promulgated rules requiring employers to pay overtime pay for all hours worked in excess of 40 hours per week and to keep certain records that include hours of employment and wages for employees but exempting certain employees from the overtime pay requirements. This bill exempts from these overtime pay and recordkeeping requirements individuals who have entered into a contract to play minor league baseball and who are compensated under a collective bargaining agreement that expressly provides for wages and working conditions.
Sponsors
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Votes
Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on State Affairs, Ayes 7, Noes 0
Passed 7–0 Oct 8, 2025 official source full pageNo individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.
Full history
- Jul 17, 2025 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives Dallman, Haywood, Bare, Brooks, DeSmidt, Dittrich, Goodwin, Green, Kreibich, Murphy, Mursau, O'Connor, Ortiz-Velez, Sheehan, Sinicki, Snodgrass, Steffen, Subeck, Swearingen and Tusler; cosponsored by Senators Feyen, Carpenter, Bradley, Dassler-Alfheim, Spreitzer and Wirch
- Jul 17, 2025 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs
- Jul 18, 2025 · Assembly
Representative Green withdrawn as a coauthor
- Sep 16, 2025 · Assembly
Public hearing held
- Sep 24, 2025 · Assembly
Executive action taken
- Oct 8, 2025 · Assembly
Report passage recommended by Committee on State Affairs, Ayes 7, Noes 0
- Oct 8, 2025 · Assembly
Referred to committee on Rules
- Oct 14, 2025 · Assembly
Senator Ratcliff added as a cosponsor
- Nov 13, 2025 · Assembly
Placed on calendar 11-19-2025 by Committee on Rules
- Nov 18, 2025 · Assembly
Representatives J. Jacobson and Anderson added as coauthors
- Nov 19, 2025 · Assembly
Laid on the table
- Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1