Bill Text: MO HB61 | 2011 | Regular Session | Engrossed

---

Bill Title: Prohibits the state minimum wage from exceeding the federal minimum wage and specifies that every employer must pay each employee receiving gratuities as compensation a wage of $3.63 per hour

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-04-12 - Placed on Informal Calendar [HB61 Detail]

Download: Missouri-2011-HB61-Engrossed.html

---

FIRST REGULAR SESSION

[PERFECTED]

HOUSE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR

HOUSE BILL NO. 61

96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

0206L.02P                                                                                                                                                 D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

---

 

AN ACT

To repeal section 290.502, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the minimum wage.

---

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Section 290.502, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 290.502, to read as follows:

            290.502. 1. Except as may be otherwise provided pursuant to sections 290.500 to 290.530, effective January 1, 2007, every employer shall pay to each employee wages at the rate of $6.50 per hour, or wages at the same rate or rates set under the provisions of federal law as the prevailing federal minimum wage applicable to those covered jobs in interstate commerce, whichever rate per hour is higher.

            2. The minimum wage shall be increased or decreased on January 1, 2008, and on January 1 of successive years, by the increase or decrease in the cost of living. On September 30, 2007, and on each September 30 of each successive year, the director shall measure the increase or decrease in the cost of living by the percentage increase or decrease as of the preceding July over the level as of July of the immediately preceding year of the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) or successor index as published by the U.S. Department of Labor or its successor agency, with the amount of the minimum wage increase or decrease rounded to the nearest five cents.

            3. The minimum wage calculated under this section shall not exceed the federal minimum wage. Except as may be otherwise provided under section 290.512, every employer shall pay to each employee who receives compensation in the form of gratuities a rate of $3.63 per hour.

•