JKM C.S.S.B. 571 75(R)BILL ANALYSIS


ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
C.S.S.B. 571
By: Lindsay (Brimer)
5-24-97
Committee Report (Substituted)



BACKGROUND 

Currently, there is no provision that supersedes a municipal 
ordinance or charter provision governing 
wages in private employment other than wages under a public 
contract. Due to local regulation of 
wage rates in private employment, uniform application of the 
minimum wage may be difficult to 
achieve. This bill provides that the minimum wage provided by 
this chapter supersedes a municipal 
ordinance or charter provision governing wages in private 
employment other than wages under a 
public contract.

PURPOSE

As proposed, C.S.S.B. 571 provides that the minimum wage provided 
by this chapter supersedes a 
municipal ordinance or charter provision governing wages in 
private employment other than wages 
under a public contracts. Certain tax abatement agreements and 
state or federal job training or 
workforce development programs are exempted.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly 
grant any additional rulemaking 
authority to a state officer, department, agency or institution.

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.Amends Chapter 62B, Labor Code, by adding Section 
62.0515, as follows:

Sec. 62.0515. APPLICATION OF MINIMUM WAGE TO MUNICIPALITIES. 
Provides 
that the minimum wage provided by this chapter supersedes a 
municipal ordinance or charter 
provision governing wages in private employment other than wages 
under a public contract. 
States that this section does not apply to a municipal ordinance, 
charter provision, or contract 
governing tax abatements between a municipality and private 
employers or to any state or 
federal job training or workforce development program.

SECTION 2.Amends Section 62.151, Labor Code, to state that this 
chapter and a municipal 
ordinance or charter provision governing wages in private 
employment, other than 
wages under a public contract, do not apply to certain persons.

SECTION 3. Repeals Sections 62.055 and 62.056, Labor Code.

SECTION 4. Effective date.

SECTION 5.Emergency clause.

COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL TO SUBSTITUTE

SECTION 1.  CSSB 571 adds language stating that this section does 
not apply to a municipal 
  ordinance, charter provision, or contract governing tax 
abatements between a 
  municipality and private employers or to any state or federal job 
training or workforce 
  development program.

SECTION 3.  CSSB 571 adds this section to repeal 62.055 and 
62.056, Labor Code.

SECTION 4. CSSB 571 adds this section with a new effective date of 
September 1, 1997.  SB 571 
  contained an immediate effective date in the original SECTION 3.

SECTION 5. CSSB 571 relocates the emergency clause to this