Kentucky House Bill 39 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-0)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-01-07 - to Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
Pending: House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Amend KRS 337.010 to increase the applicable threshold of employees of retail stores and service industries from $95,000 to $500,000 average annual gross volume of sales for the employer; amend KRS 337.275 to raise the state minimum wage to $8.20 per hour on July 1, 2020, $9.15 per hour on July 1, 2021, $10.10 per hour on July 1, 2022, $11 per hour on July 1, 2023, $12.05 per hour on July 1, 2024, $13.10 per hour on July 1, 2025, $13.95 per hour on July 1, 2026, and $15 per hour on July 1, 2027, and to raise the state minimum wage for tipped employees to $2.13 per hour on the effective date of the Act, $3.05 per hour on July 1, 2021, $3.95 per hour on July 1, 2022, and $4.90 per hour on July 1, 2023; include anti-preemption language permitting local governments to establish minimum wage ordinances in excess of the state minimum wage.

AN ACT relating to wages.

Rep. Kathy Hinkle [D]	Rep. Tina Bojanowski [D]	Rep. Charles Booker [D]	Rep. George Brown [D]
Rep. Jeffery Donohue [D]	Rep. Derrick Graham [D]	Rep. Joe Graviss [D]	Rep. Chris Harris [D]
Rep. Joni Jenkins [D]	Rep. Nima Kulkarni [D]	Rep. Mary Marzian [D]	Rep. Patti Minter [D]
Rep. Josie Raymond [D]	Rep. Attica Scott [D]	Rep. Maria Sorolis [D]	Rep. Cherlynn Stevenson [D]
Rep. Buddy Wheatley [D]	Rep. Robert Wiederstein [D]	Rep. Lisa Willner [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-01-07	House	to Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
2020-01-07	House	introduced in House
2019-08-21	House	Prefiled by the sponsor(s).

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/20RS/hb39.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/20RS/hb39/orig_bill.pdf