Bill Text: MI SB0185 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Labor; hours and wages; minimum wage; increase. Amends sec. 4 of 2014 PA 138 (MCL 408.414).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-23 - Referred To Committee On Government Operations [SB0185 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-SB0185-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 185

 

 

February 23, 2017, Introduced by Senators YOUNG and KNEZEK and referred to the Committee on Government Operations.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 2014 PA 138, entitled

 

"Workforce opportunity wage act,"

 

by amending section 4 (MCL 408.414).

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 4. (1) Subject to the exceptions specified in this act,

 

the minimum hourly wage rate is:

 

     (a) Before September 1, 2014, $7.40.

 

     (b) Beginning September 1, 2014, $8.15.

 

     (c) Beginning January 1, 2016, $8.50.

 

     (d) Beginning January 1, 2017, $8.90.

 

     (e) Beginning January 1, 2018, $9.25.$15.00.

 

     (2) Every January beginning in January 2019, the state

 

treasurer shall adjust the minimum wage by an amount determined by

 

the state treasurer at the end of the preceding calendar year to

 

reflect the average annual percentage change in the consumer price

 

index for the most recent 5-year period for which data are

 

available. As used in this subsection, "consumer price index" means

 

the most comprehensive index of consumer prices available for the

 

midwest region from the bureau of labor statistics Bureau of Labor

 

Statistics of the United States department of labor. Department of

 

Labor. The wage and hours division of the department of licensing

 

and regulatory affairs shall post the adjusted minimum wage on its

 

website by February 1 of the year it is calculated, and the

 

adjusted rate is effective beginning April 1 of that year. An

 

annual increase under this subsection shall must not exceed 3.5%.

 

     (3) An increase in the minimum hourly wage rate as prescribed

 

in subsection (2) does not take effect if the unemployment rate for

 

this state, as determined by the bureau of labor statistics, Bureau

 

of Labor Statistics of the United States department of labor, for

 

this state Department of Labor, is 8.5% or greater for the year

 

preceding the year of the prescribed increase.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.