By:  Lindsay                                           S.B. No. 571

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to the application of the minimum wage.

 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-3           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 62, Labor Code, is amended

 1-4     by adding Section 62.0515 to read as follows:

 1-5           Sec. 62.0515.  APPLICATION OF MINIMUM WAGE TO MUNICIPALITIES.

 1-6     The minimum wage provided by this chapter supersedes a municipal

 1-7     ordinance or charter provision governing wages in private

 1-8     employment other than wages under a public contract.

 1-9           SECTION 2.  Section 62.151, Labor Code, is amended to read as

1-10     follows:

1-11           Sec. 62.151.  PERSON COVERED BY FEDERAL ACT.  This chapter

1-12     and a municipal ordinance or charter provision governing wages in

1-13     private employment, other than wages under a public contract, do

1-14     [does] not apply to a person covered by the Fair Labor Standards

1-15     Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. Section 201 et seq.).

1-16           SECTION 3.  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,

1-21     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-22     passage, and it is so enacted.