Bill Text: HI SB2828 | 2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Minimum Wage; Employment

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-23 - Referred to JDL, WAM. [SB2828 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2014-SB2828-Introduced.html

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THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	2828
TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2014
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO MINIMUM HOURLY 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.  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; and

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

     (2)  $8.75 per hour beginning January 1, 2015;

     (3)  $9.50 per hour beginning January 1, 2016; and

     (4)  $10.00 per hour beginning January 1, 2017.

     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 25 cents 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."

     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  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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.

 

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________
	BY REQUEST

 

 

Report Title:

Minimum Wage; Employment

 

 

Description:

Increases the minimum hourly wage to $8.75 on January 1, 2015, $9.50 on January 1, 2016, and $10.00 on January 1, 2017.

 

 

 

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