Bill Text: TX HJR26 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing an increased minimum wage.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-14 - Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal [HJR26 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HJR26-Introduced.html
| 84R168 MAW-D | ||
| By: Martinez Fischer | H.J.R. No. 26 | |
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| proposing a constitutional amendment establishing an increased | ||
| minimum wage. | ||
| BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Article XVI, Texas Constitution, is amended by | ||
| adding Section 29 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 29. (a) An employer in this state shall pay to an | ||
| employee for services performed by the employee not less than the | ||
| greater of: | ||
| (1) $10.10 an hour; or | ||
| (2) the federal minimum wage under Section 6, Fair | ||
| Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. Section 206). | ||
| (b) Subsection (a) of this section does not apply to: | ||
| (1) wages paid to an individual to whom Section | ||
| 62.057, Labor Code, applies, as that section existed on January 1, | ||
| 2016; or | ||
| (2) an employer to which an exemption under Subchapter | ||
| D, Chapter 62, Labor Code, applies, as that subchapter existed on | ||
| January 1, 2016. | ||
| (c) The legislature by general law may repeal or otherwise | ||
| limit but may not expand the applicability of Section 62.057, Labor | ||
| Code, or an exemption under Subchapter D, Chapter 62, Labor Code, | ||
| that is in effect on January 1, 2016. | ||
| SECTION 2. The following temporary provision is added to | ||
| the Texas Constitution: | ||
| TEMPORARY PROVISION. (a) This temporary provision applies | ||
| to the constitutional amendment proposed by the 84th Legislature, | ||
| Regular Session, 2015, establishing a minimum wage of the greater | ||
| of $10.10 an hour or the federal minimum wage. | ||
| (b) Section 29, Article XVI, of this constitution takes | ||
| effect January 1, 2016. | ||
| (c) This temporary provision expires January 1, 2017. | ||
| SECTION 3. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | ||
| submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 3, 2015. | ||
| The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the | ||
| proposition: "The constitutional amendment establishing a minimum | ||
| wage of the greater of $10.10 an hour or the federal minimum wage." | ||
