Bill Text: HI SB331 | 2014 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Minimum Wage; Employment
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-04-14 - Received notice of change in conferees (Hse. Com. No. 683). [SB331 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2014-SB331-Introduced.html
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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 July 1, 2013;
(5) $8.75 per hour beginning July 1, 2014 and ending on June 30, 2015; and
(6) An amount adjusted in accordance with subsection (c) beginning July 1, 2015.
(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, 2014, and on September 30 each year thereafter, the department of labor and industrial relations shall calculate an adjusted minimum wage rate to maintain employee purchasing power by increasing the current year's minimum wage rate by the rate of inflation. The adjusted minimum wage rate shall be calculated to the nearest cent using the 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 July 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 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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, 2013.
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Report Title:
Minimum Wage; Employment
Description:
Increases minimum wage to $8.25 starting 7/1/13 and $8.75 starting 7/1/14 and ending 6/30/15. Adjusts the minimum hourly wage thereafter in accord with the consumer priced index. Effective 7/1/13.
The summary description of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
