Bill Text: HI SB331 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Minimum Wage; Employment
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-04-26 - Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-26-13 4:00PM in conference room 325. [SB331 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2013-SB331-Amended.html
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TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2013 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO LABOR.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 387-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§387-2 Minimum wages. (a) Except as provided in section 387‑9 and this section, every employer shall pay to each employee employed by the employer, wages at the rate of not less than:
(1) $6.25 per hour beginning January 1, 2003;
(2) $6.75 per hour beginning January 1, 2006; [and]
(3) $7.25 per hour beginning January 1, 2007[.];
(4) $8.25 per hour beginning January 1, 2014;
(5) $8.75 per hour beginning January 1, 2015;
(6) $9.25 per hour beginning January 1, 2016, and ending on December 31, 2016; and
(7) An amount adjusted in accordance with subsection (c) beginning January 1, 2017.
(b) The hourly wage of a tipped
employee may be deemed to be increased on account of tips if the employee is
paid not less than [25] cents below the applicable minimum
wage by the employee's employer and the combined amount the employee receives
from the employee's employer and in tips is at least [50] cents
more than the applicable minimum wage.
(c) On September 30, 2015, and on September 30 each year thereafter, the department of labor and industrial relations shall calculate an adjusted minimum wage rate. The adjusted minimum wage rate shall be calculated to the nearest cent using the Honolulu region consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers, CPI-W, or a successor index, for the twelve months prior to September 1 of each year as calculated by the United States Department of Labor. Each adjusted minimum wage rate calculated under this subsection shall take effect on the following January 1."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2050.
Report Title:
Minimum Wage; Employment
Description:
Increases minimum wage to $8.25 starting 01/01/14, $8.75 starting 01/01/15, and $9.25 starting 01/01/16 and ending 12/31/16. Authorizes DLIR to adjust the minimum hourly wage thereafter in accordance with the Honolulu region consumer price index. Effective 7/1/50. (SD2)
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