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1-14 repealed.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.