REPORT TITLE:
Minimum Wage


DESCRIPTION:
Increases the state minimum wage.

 
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THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO MINIMUM WAGE.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  Section 387-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 2 amended to read as follows:
 
 3      "�387-2  Minimum wages.  Except as provided in section 387-9
 
 4 and this section, every employer shall pay to each employee
 
 5 employed by the employer wages at the rate of not less than
 
 6 [$3.85 per hour beginning January 1, 1988, $4.75 per hour
 
 7 beginning April 1, 1992, and $5.25 per hour beginning January 1,
 
 8 1993.] fifty cents an hour greater than the prevailing federal
 
 9 minimum wage under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as
 
10 amended, beginning July 1, 2001.  The hourly wage of a tipped
 
11 employee may be deemed to be increased on account of tips if the
 
12 employee is paid not less than twenty cents below the applicable
 
13 minimum wage by the employee's employer and the combined amount
 
14 the employee receives from the employee's employer and in tips is
 
15 at least fifty cents more than the applicable minimum wage."
 
16      SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
17 New statutory material is underscored.
 
18      SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2001.
 
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20                           INTRODUCED BY:  _______________________
 

 
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