Bill Text: HI SB544 | 2017 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Labor.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-23 - Referred to JDL, WAM. [SB544 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2017-SB544-Introduced.html
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THE SENATE |
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TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2017 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to labor.
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] $10.50 per hour beginning
January 1, 2018[.];
(8) $12.00 per hour beginning January 1, 2019;
(9) $13.50 per hour beginning January 1, 2020; and
(10) $15.00 per hour beginning January 1, 2021.
[(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.]
(b) On September 30, 2021, and on September 30 of 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 age 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:
Minimum Wage; Employment
Description:
Annually increases minimum wage 1/1/18 - 1/1/2021. On 9/30/2021 and thereafter requires DLIR to adjust the minimum hourly wage in accordance with the Honolulu region consumer price index. Deletes tip credit.
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