Bill Text: HI SB613 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Minimum Wage; Consumer Price Index
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [SB613 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2012-SB613-Introduced.html
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to the state 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; [and]
(3) $7.25 per hour beginning January 1, 2007[.];
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(4) $ per hour beginning January 1, 2012;
provided that beginning January 1, 2013 and on January 1 of each year thereafter, the minimum wage shall be adjusted in accordance with subsection (c).
(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 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.
(c) On September 30, 2012, and on September 30 of each year thereafter, the department of labor and industrial relations shall calculate an adjusted minimum wage rate to maintain employee purchasing power by increasing the previous year's minimum wage rate by the rate of inflation. The increase in the minimum wage rate shall be calculated to the nearest cent using the consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers, CPI-W, or a successor index, as calculated by the United States Department of Labor, for the twelve months prior to September 1 of the year in which the calculation of the increase in minimum wage rate occurs. Each adjusted minimum wage rate shall be equal to or greater than the previous year's rate. 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 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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:
Minimum Wage; Consumer Price Index
Description:
Establishes new minimum wage rate and provides for upward adjustment of that rate yearly based on the consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers.
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