Bill Text: HI HB1132 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Minimum Wage; Living Wage; Tip Credit; Consumer Price Index

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-02 - Referred to LAB, FIN, referral sheet 6 [HB1132 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2015-HB1132-Introduced.html

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	1132
TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2015
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to the minimum wage.

 

 

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

 

     SECTION 1.  Section 387-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§387-2  Minimum wages.  (a)  Except as provided in section 387‑9 and this section, every employer shall pay to each employee employed by the employer, wages at the rate of not less than:

     (1)  $6.25 per hour beginning January 1, 2003;

     (2)  $6.75 per hour beginning January 1, 2006;

     (3)  $7.25 per hour beginning January 1, 2007;

     (4)  $7.75 per hour beginning January 1, 2015;

     (5)  $8.50 per hour beginning January 1, 2016;

     (6)  $9.25 per hour beginning January 1, 2017; and

     (7)  $10.10 per hour beginning January 1, 2018.

     (b)  The hourly wage of a tipped employee may be deemed to be increased on account of tips if the employee is paid not less than:

     (1)  25 cents;

     (2)  50 cents per hour beginning January 1, 2015; and

     (3)  75 cents per hour beginning January 1, 2016,

below the applicable minimum wage by the employee's employer and the combined amount the employee receives from the employee's employer and in tips is at least 50 cents more than the applicable minimum wage; provided that beginning January 1, 2015, the combined amount the employee receives from the employee's employer and in tips is at least $7.00 more than the applicable minimum wage.

     (c)  On September 30, 2018, and on September 30 each year thereafter, the department of labor and industrial relations shall calculate the minimum wage rate for the following year to be effective each January 1.  The minimum wage rate for the following year shall be calculated to the nearest cent by adding to the current year's minimum wage rate an amount equal to the current year's minimum wage rate multiplied by the Honolulu region consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers, CPI-W, or a successor index, for the twelve months prior to September 1 of the current year, as calculated by the United States Department of Labor; provided that if this calculation results in a minimum wage rate for the following year that is less than the minimum wage rate for the current year, the calculation shall not apply and the minimum wage rate for the following year shall be the same as the minimum wage rate for the current year.

     (d)  On September 30, 2016, and on September 30 each year thereafter, the department of labor and industrial relations shall calculate the tip credit for the following year to be effective each January 1.  The tip credit for the following year shall be calculated to the nearest cent by adding to the current year's tip credit an amount equal to the current year's tip credit multiplied by the lower of the adjustments set forth as follows:

     (1)  Percentage increase established at the immediately preceding September 1 over the year-earlier level to the hourly rate that, at forty hours of work a week for fifty-two weeks a year, would be equal to the poverty threshold in Hawaii for a family of four, as published by the United States Department of Health and Human Services; or

     (2)  Percentage increase established at the immediately preceding September 1 over the year-earlier level of the annual average consumer price index for all urban consumers in Honolulu, as published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Department of Labor;

provided that if this calculation results in a tip credit for the following year that is less than the tip credit for the current year, the calculation shall not apply and the tip credit for the following year shall be the same as the tip credit for the current year."

     SECTION 2.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________

 

 

Report Title:

Minimum Wage; Living Wage; Tip Credit; Consumer Price Index

 

Description:

Establishes the minimum wage annually pursuant to the consumer price index.  Adjusts the tip credit annually according to adjustments in the living wage.

 

 

 

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