KY HB576 | 2024 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: Introduced on February 15 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-02-15 - to Committee on Committees (H)
Pending: House Committee On Committees Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Status: Introduced on February 15 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-02-15 - to Committee on Committees (H)
Pending: House Committee On Committees Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Summary
Amend KRS 337.010 to change the definition of "employee" and to add the definition of "worker with a disability"; amend KRS 337.275 to require all employers to pay all employees, including workers with a disability, a minimum wage and increase the state minimum wage over the next three years to no less than 100 percent of the municipality, county, or state minimum wage or the prevailing wage as defined in 29 C.F.R. sec. 1.2; amend KRS 337.295 to remove learners, apprentices, workers with a disability, sheltered workshop employees, and students from regulations issued by the commissioner for the Department of Workplace Standards; amend KRS 205.5605 to exclude referrals to sheltered workshop employment from the definition of "covered services and supports" as of July 1, 2027; amend KRS 154.22-040 to conform; establish that the Act may be cited as the Employees with Disabilities Equal Pay Act.
Title
AN ACT relating to wages.
Sponsors
History
Date | Chamber | Action |
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2024-02-15 | House | to Committee on Committees (H) |
2024-02-15 | House | introduced in House |
Subjects
Disabilities and the Disabled
Economic Development
Labor and Industry
Local Mandate
Short Titles and Popular Names
Wages and Hours
Workforce
Economic Development
Labor and Industry
Local Mandate
Short Titles and Popular Names
Wages and Hours
Workforce