Bill Text: PA SB173 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for minimum wages.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-02-02 - Referred to LABOR AND INDUSTRY [SB173 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-SB173-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 143
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 173 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY TARTAGLIONE, FONTANA, STOUT, WILLIAMS, FERLO, KASUNIC, O'PAKE, KITCHEN, COSTA, LEACH, STACK, LOGAN, MELLOW, WOZNIAK AND FARNESE, FEBRUARY 2, 2009
REFERRED TO LABOR AND INDUSTRY, FEBRUARY 2, 2009
AN ACT
Amending the act of January 17, 1968 (P.L.11, No.5), entitled
"An act establishing a fixed minimum wage and overtime rates
for employes, with certain exceptions; providing for minimum
rates for learners and apprentices; creating a Minimum Wage
Advisory Board and defining its powers and duties; conferring
powers and imposing duties upon the Department of Labor and
Industry; imposing duties on employers; and providing
penalties," further providing for minimum wages.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 4(a) of the act of January 17, 1968 (P.L.
11, No.5), known as The Minimum Wage Act of 1968, amended July
9, 2006 (P.L.1077, No.112), is amended to read:
Section 4. Minimum Wages.--Except as may otherwise be
provided under this act:
(a) Every employer shall pay to each of his or her employes
wages for all hours worked at a rate of not less than:
(1) Two dollars sixty-five cents ($2.65) an hour upon the
effective date of this amendment.
(2) Two dollars ninety cents ($2.90) an hour during the year
beginning January 1, 1979.
(3) Three dollars ten cents ($3.10) an hour during the year
beginning January 1, 1980.
(4) Three dollars thirty-five cents ($3.35) an hour after
December 31, 1980.
(5) Three dollars seventy cents ($3.70) an hour beginning
February 1, 1989.
(6) Five dollars fifteen cents ($5.15) an hour beginning
September 1, 1997.
(7) Six dollars twenty-five cents ($6.25) an hour beginning
January 1, 2007.
(8) Seven dollars fifteen cents ($7.15) an hour beginning
July 1, 2007.
(9) Beginning January 1, 2010, and each succeeding January 1
thereafter, the minimum wage shall be increased by an annual
cost-of-living adjustment calculated by applying the percentage
change in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-
U) for the Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland area,
for the most recent twelve month-period for which figures have
been officially reported by the United States Department of
Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics sixty days prior to the date
the adjustment is due to take effect, to the then current salary
amounts. The percentage increase and the minimum wage amounts
shall be determined by the secretary as herein prescribed and
public notice given in the Pennsylvania Bulletin within ten days
of the date such determination is made.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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