Bill Text: HI SB2261 | 2022 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating To Minimum Wage.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-24 - Referred to LCA, WAM. [SB2261 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2022-SB2261-Introduced.html

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

2261

THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2022

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

Relating to minimum wage.

 

 

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

 


     SECTION 1.  Chapter 387, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding one new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

     "§387-    Minimum wage commission.  (a)  There is established within the department a minimum wage commission, for administrative purposes only.  Members of the commission shall include but not be limited to the following:

     (1)  The director or the director's designee;

     (2)  The director of human services or the director's designee;

     (3)  Two members appointed by the governor;

     (4)  Two members appointed by the president of the senate;

     (5)  Two members appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives; and

     (6)  Three other representatives appointed by the governor from other organizations that may assist in providing necessary expertise.

     (b)  Vacancies in a position shall be filled in the same manner as that member's appointment.  The members of the commission shall serve without compensation but may be reimbursed for necessary expenses, including travel expenses, incurred in the discharge of their duties.

     (c)  The commission shall review and recommend an appropriate minimum wage.

     (d)  Before the twentieth legislative day of the regular session of 2023 and every year thereafter, the commission shall study and make recommendations for any increase in the minimum wage and the recommended effective date of the increase; provided that the recommended effective date shall be no earlier than the adjournment of the legislative session following the commission's recommendation.  A recommended increase by the commission shall be effective as of the date set forth in the recommendation unless the legislature disapproves the recommendation by adoption of a concurrent resolution prior to adjournment sine die of the legislative session in which the recommendation was submitted."

     SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $           or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2022-2023 for the administration of the minimum wage commission pursuant to this Act.

     The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of labor and industrial relations for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 3.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2022.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Minimum Wage; Minimum Wage Commission; Appropriation

 

Description:

Establishes a minimum wage commission to recommend the annual rate of increase for the minimum wage. Provides that recommended minimum shall go into effect unless affirmatively rejected by concurrent resolution. Makes an appropriation.

 

 

 

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