Kentucky House Bill 148 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-01-08 - to Labor & Industry (H)
Pending: House Labor and Industry Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [MS Word]

Amend KRS 337.420 to define "equivalent jobs" as those that are equal under the federal Equal Pay Act, or jobs that are dissimilar but equivalent in skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions; amend KRS 337.423 to prohibit wage discrimination on the basis of sex, race, or national origin by prohibiting wage differentials for employees who perform equivalent jobs; provide exceptions for wage differentials based on seniority or merit systems, systems that measure wages by quantity or quality of production, and factors other than sex, race, or national origin; amend KRS 337.425 to require the promulgation of administrative regulations to specify criteria for determining jobs that are dominated by employees of a particular sex, race, or national origin, and acceptable methodology for determining equivalent skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions; require that the promulgation occur on or before July 1, 2015; amendments to KRS 337.423 EFFECTIVE July 1, 2016.

AN ACT relating to wage discrimination.

Rep. Mary Marzian [D]

Rep. Joni Jenkins [D]

Rep. Susan Westrom [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-01-08	House	to Labor & Industry (H)
2014-01-07	House	introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/14RS/HB148.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/14RS/HB148/bill.doc
Supplement	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/14RS/HB148/LM.doc