75R16544 E                          

         By Lindsay                                             S.B. No. 571

         Substitute the following for S.B. No. 571:

         By Oliveira                                        C.S.S.B. No. 571

                                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.  Subchapter B, Chapter 62, Labor Code, is amended

 1-5     by adding Section 62.0515 to read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 62.0515.  APPLICATION OF MINIMUM WAGE TO MUNICIPALITIES.

 1-7     The minimum wage provided by this chapter supersedes a municipal

 1-8     ordinance or charter provision governing wages in private

 1-9     employment other than wages under a public contract.  This section

1-10     does not apply to a municipal ordinance, charter provision, or

1-11     contract governing tax abatements between a municipality and

1-12     private employers or to any state or federal job training or

1-13     workforce development program.

1-14           SECTION 2.  Section 62.151, Labor Code, is amended to read as

1-15     follows:

1-16           Sec. 62.151.  PERSON COVERED BY FEDERAL ACT.  This chapter

1-17     and a municipal ordinance or charter provision governing wages in

1-18     private employment, other than wages under a public contract, do

1-19     [does] not apply to a person covered by the Fair Labor Standards

1-20     Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. Section 201 et seq.).

1-21           SECTION 3.  Sections 62.055 and 62.056, Labor Code, are

1-22     repealed.

1-23           SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-24           SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-1     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-2     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-3     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-4     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.