Bill Text: MO HB1408 | 2014 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Increases the state minimum wage to $10.25 per hour
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-28 - Referred: Workforce Development and Workplace Safety(H) [HB1408 Detail]
Download: Missouri-2014-HB1408-Introduced.html
SECOND REGULAR SESSION
97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES ELLINGTON (Sponsor), PETERS, SMITH, GARDNER AND BUTLER (Co-sponsors).
4353L.01I D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 290.502, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the minimum wage rate.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 290.502, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 290.502, to read as follows:
290.502. 1. Except as provided in subsection 3 of this section and as may be otherwise provided pursuant to sections 290.500 to 290.530, effective January 1, 2007, every employer shall pay to each employee wages at the rate of [$6.50] six dollars and fifty cents per hour, or wages at the same rate or rates set under the provisions of federal law as the prevailing federal minimum wage applicable to those covered jobs in interstate commerce, whichever rate per hour is higher.
2. The minimum wage shall be increased or decreased on January 1, 2008, and on January [1] first of successive years, by the increase or decrease in the cost of living. On September 30, 2007, and on each September [30] thirtieth of each successive year, the director shall measure the increase or decrease in the cost of living by the percentage increase or decrease as of the preceding July over the level as of July of the immediately preceding year of the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) or successor index as published by the U.S. Department of Labor or its successor agency, with the amount of the minimum wage increase or decrease rounded to the nearest five cents.
3. Beginning January 1, 2015, the minimum wage shall be increased to the rate of ten dollars and twenty-five cents per hour, and shall be increased or decreased on January first of successive years as provided in subsection 2 of this section.
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