KY HB2 | 2015 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 11 2015 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2015-03-11 - discharge petition filed
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [MS Word]
Status: Engrossed on February 11 2015 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2015-03-11 - discharge petition filed
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [MS Word]
Summary
Amend KRS 337.010 to change the definition of "employees" of retail stores and service industries to increase the threshold of business that applies to the employer from $95,000 to $500,000; amend KRS 337.275 to raise the state minimum wage to $8.20 per hour on July 1, 2015, $9.15 per hour on July 1, 2016, and $10.10 per hour on July 1, 2017; 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 an acceptable methodology for determining equivalent skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions; require that the regulations be promulgated on or before July 1, 2016; provide that amendments to KRS 337.423 are EFFECTIVE July 1, 2017.
Title
AN ACT relating to wages.
Sponsors
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2015-03-11 | Senate | discharge petition filed |
| 2015-02-13 | Senate | to Appropriations & Revenue (S) |
| 2015-02-11 | Senate | received in Senate |
| 2015-02-10 | House | passed 56-43 |
| 2015-02-10 | House | floor amendment (1) defeated |
| 2015-02-10 | House | 3rd reading |
| 2015-02-10 | House | floor amendment (2) filed |
| 2015-02-06 | House | floor amendment (1) filed |
| 2015-02-06 | House | posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, February 9, 2015 |
| 2015-02-06 | House | 2nd reading, to Rules |
| 2015-02-05 | House | reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar |
| 2015-02-03 | House | posted in committee |
| 2015-01-08 | House | to Labor & Industry (H) |
| 2015-01-06 | House | introduced in House |
