By Maxey H.B. No. 334
75R3003 PB-F
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. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the
1-5 "Minimum Wage Amendments of 1997."
1-6 SECTION 2. INCREASE IN MINIMUM WAGE. Section 62.051, Labor
1-7 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 62.051. MINIMUM WAGE. Except as provided by Section
1-9 62.057, an [An] employer shall pay to each employee not less than
1-10 the greater of:
1-11 (1) $6.50 [$3.35] an hour; or
1-12 (2) the current federal minimum wage under Section 6,
1-13 Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. Section 206)[, except
1-14 as provided by Sections 62.055 and 62.057].
1-15 SECTION 3. REPEALER. Sections 62.055, 62.056, and 62.151,
1-16 Labor Code, are repealed.
1-17 SECTION 4. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act takes effect September
1-18 1, 1997.
1-19 SECTION 5. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation
1-20 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.