By Bailey                                        H.B. No. 430

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                                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  Section 62.151, Labor Code, is repealed.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.