By Bailey H.B. No. 430
75R2892 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. (a) Except as provided by
1-7 Sections 62.055 and 62.057, an [An] employer shall pay to each
1-8 employee covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C.
1-9 Section 201 et seq.) not less than the greater of:
1-10 (1) $6.50 an hour; or
1-11 (2) the current federal minimum wage under Section 6,
1-12 Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. Section 206).
1-13 (b) Except as provided by Sections 62.055 and 62.057, an
1-14 employer shall pay to each employee not covered by the Fair Labor
1-15 Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. Section 201 et seq.) not less
1-16 than $3.35 an hour [, except as provided by Sections 62.055 and
1-17 62.057].
1-18 SECTION 2. Section 62.151, Labor Code, is repealed.
1-19 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-20 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.