FAIRHURST, J.
We must determine whether the State qualified as an employer under the industrial welfare act (IWA), chapter 49.12 RCW, prior to 2003. If it did, we must determine whether the legislature's 2003 amendment to the IWA, clarifying that the State is not an employer generally, may apply retroactively.
We find that the State was not an employer under the IWA generally at least as early as 1988. We therefore affirm, on different grounds, the trial court...
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