KY HB401 | 2013 | Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill 401 (Prior Session Legislation)

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Introduced on February 15 2013 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2013-02-27 - posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 28, 2013
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [MS Word]

Summary

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 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, 2014; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2015.

Title

AN ACT relating to wage discrimination.

History

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-02-27	House	posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 28, 2013
2013-02-26	House	reported favorably, to Rules
2013-02-21	House	posted in committee
2013-02-20	House	posting waived
2013-02-20	House	returned to Labor & Industry (H)
2013-02-20	House	2nd reading
2013-02-20	House	taken from Labor & Industry (H)
2013-02-19	House	returned to Labor & Industry (H)
2013-02-19	House	1st reading
2013-02-19	House	taken from Labor & Industry (H)
2013-02-19	House	to Labor & Industry (H)
2013-02-15	House	introduced in House