Bill Text: HI HB1433 | 2017 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Minimum Wage.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-14 - The committee(s) on LAB recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [HB1433 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2017-HB1433-Introduced.html
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TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2017 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to 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[.],
and ending on December 31, 2018; and
(8) An amount adjusted in accordance with subsection (c) beginning January 1, 2019.
(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 an adjusted minimum wage rate. The adjusted minimum wage rate shall be calculated to the nearest cent using 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 each year as calculated by the United States Department of Labor. Each adjusted minimum wage rate calculated under this subsection shall take effect on the following January 1."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Labor; Minimum Wage; Consumer Price Index
Description:
Requires DLIR to adjust the hourly minimum wage in accordance with the Honolulu region consumer price index.
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