Kentucky Senate Bill 51 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-01-09 - to Appropriations & Revenue (S)
Pending: Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Amend KRS 337.010, relating to wages, 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, 2019, to $9.15 per hour on July 1, 2020, to $10.10 per hour on July 1, 2021, to $11.00 per hour on July 1, 2022, to $12.05 per hour on July 1, 2023, to $13.10 per hour on July 1, 2024, to $13.95 per hour on July 1, 2025, and to $15.00 per hour on July 1, 2026, and to raise the state minimum wage for tipped employees to $2.13 per hour on the effective date of the Act, to $3.05 per hour on July 1, 2020, to $3.95 per hour on July 1, 2021, and to $4.90 per hour on July 1, 2022; include anti-preemption language permitting local governments to establish minimum wage ordinances in excess of the state minimum wage.

AN ACT relating to wages.

Sen. Reginald Thomas [D]

Sen. Gerald Neal [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-01-09	Senate	to Appropriations & Revenue (S)
2019-01-08	Senate	introduced in Senate
2018-11-20	Senate	Prefiled by the sponsor(s).

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/19RS/sb51.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/19RS/sb51/orig_bill.pdf
Supplement	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/19RS/sb51/LM.pdf
Supplement	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/19RS/sb51/FN.pdf