By Rodriguez, et al.                                  H.B. No. 1297
       74R5781 PB-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the minimum wage.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 62.051, Labor Code, is amended to read as
    1-5  follows:
    1-6        Sec. 62.051.  MINIMUM WAGE.  Except as provided by Section
    1-7  62.057, an <An> employer shall pay to each employee not less than
    1-8  the greater of:
    1-9              (1)  $4.25 <$3.35> an hour; or
   1-10              (2)  the current federal minimum wage under Section 6,
   1-11  Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. Section 206)<, except
   1-12  as provided by Sections 62.055 and 62.057>.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  Sections 62.055 and 62.056, Labor Code, are
   1-14  repealed.
   1-15        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-16        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.