Kentucky House Bill 337 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: Introduced on January 27 2012 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2012-03-06 - posted in committee
Pending: House Labor and Industry Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [MS Word]

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 337.420 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 337.425 to require promulgation of administrative regulations on or before July 1, 2013, 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; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2014.

AN ACT relating to wage discrimination.

Rep. Wade Hurt [R]

Rep. Joni Jenkins [D]

Rep. Mary Marzian [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-03-06		posted in committee
2012-01-30		to Labor & Industry (H)
2012-01-27		introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/HB337.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/HB337/bill.doc