1-1     By:  Lindsay                                           S.B. No. 571

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 12, 1997; February 17, 1997,

 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental

 1-4     Relations; March 20, 1997, reported favorably by the following

 1-5     vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 1; March 20, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the application of the minimum wage.

 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-10           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 62, Labor Code, is amended

1-11     by adding Section 62.0515 to read as follows:

1-12           Sec. 62.0515.  APPLICATION OF MINIMUM WAGE TO MUNICIPALITIES.

1-13     The minimum wage provided by this chapter supersedes a municipal

1-14     ordinance or charter provision governing wages in private

1-15     employment other than wages under a public contract.

1-16           SECTION 2.  Section 62.151, Labor Code, is amended to read as

1-17     follows:

1-18           Sec. 62.151.  PERSON COVERED BY FEDERAL ACT.  This chapter

1-19     and a municipal ordinance or charter provision governing wages in

1-20     private employment, other than wages under a public contract, do

1-21     [does] not apply to a person covered by the Fair Labor Standards

1-22     Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. Section 201 et seq.).

1-23           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-25     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-26     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-27     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-28     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-29     passage, and it is so enacted.

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