Bill Title: Employment benefits. Repeals the prohibition of local units from establishing, mandating, or requiring certain employee benefits. Allows for local units to maintain a higher minimum wage rate than the state's minimum wage. After December 31, 2019, increases the minimum wage paid to certain employees from $7.25 per hour to $9 per hour, then annually increases the minimum wage in $0.50 increments to $12 per hour through January 1, 2026.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-01-03 - First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor [SB0082 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Senator Eddie Melton [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	SD-003	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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