KY HB1 | 2014 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 7 2014 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-03-20 - reassigned to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)
Pending: Senate Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #3) [MS Word]
Status: Engrossed on February 7 2014 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-03-20 - reassigned to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)
Pending: Senate Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #3) [MS Word]
Summary
Amend KRS 337.275 to raise the state minimum wage to $8.10 per hour on July 1, 2014, $9.15 per hour on July 1, 2015, and $10.10 per hour on July 1, 2016; amend KRS 337.420 to define "equivalent jobs" as those that are equal under the federal Equal Pay Act, or jobs that are dissimilar but equivalent in skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions; amend KRS 337.423 to prohibit wage discrimination on the basis of sex, race, or national origin by prohibiting wage differentials for employees who perform equivalent jobs; provide exceptions for wage differentials based on seniority or merit systems, systems that measure wages by quantity or quality of production, and factors other than sex, race, or national origin; amend KRS 337.425 to require the promulgation of administrative regulations to specify criteria for determining jobs that are dominated by employees of a particular sex, race, or national origin, and acceptable methodology for determining equivalent skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions; require that the promulgation occur on or before July 1, 2015; amendments to KRS 337.423 EFFECTIVE July 1, 2016.
Title
AN ACT relating to wages.
Sponsors
| Rep. Gregory Stumbo [D] | Rep. Denver Butler [D] | Rep. Derrick Graham [D] | Rep. Mary Marzian [D] |
| Rep. Darryl Owens [D] | Rep. Tom Riner [D] | Rep. Rita Smart [D] | Rep. Brent Yonts [D] |
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2014-03-20 | Senate | reassigned to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S) |
| 2014-02-12 | Senate | to State & Local Government (S) |
| 2014-02-07 | Senate | received in Senate |
| 2014-02-06 | House | 3rd reading, passed 54-44 with Committee Substitute, committee amendment (1), floor amendments (8) and (9) |
| 2014-02-06 | House | floor amendment (9) filed to Committee Substitute, floor amendment (8) filed |
| 2014-02-06 | House | floor amendments (5) (6) and (7-title) withdrawn |
| 2014-02-05 | House | floor amendments (4) and (6) filed to Committee Substitute, floor amendments (5) and (7-title) filed |
| 2014-02-03 | House | floor amendment (3) filed |
| 2014-01-31 | House | floor amendments (1) and (2) filed to Committee Substitute |
| 2014-01-31 | House | placed in the Orders of the Day for Monday, February 3, 2014 |
| 2014-01-31 | House | taken from Rules |
| 2014-01-31 | House | 2nd reading, to Rules |
| 2014-01-30 | House | reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute, committee amendment (1-title) |
| 2014-01-23 | House | posted in committee |
| 2014-01-08 | House | to Labor & Industry (H) |
| 2014-01-07 | House | introduced in House |
