By Thompson, Burnam H.B. No. 327
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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. Except as provided by Sections
1-7 62.055 and 62.057, an [An] employer shall pay to each employee the
1-8 federal minimum wage under Section 6, Fair Labor Standards Act of
1-9 1938 (29 U.S.C. Section 206) [not less than $3.35 an hour, except
1-10 as provided by Sections 62.055 and 62.057].
1-11 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-12 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
1-17 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
1-18 Amend H.B. 327 as follows:
1-19 (1) On page 1, line 11, following Section 1 of the bill,
1-20 insert a new subsection (2) to read as follows and renumber the
1-21 subsequent sections appropriately:
1-22 SECTION 2. Section 62.052(a), Labor Code, is amended as
1-23 follows:
1-24 Sec. 62.052. TIPPED EMPLOYEES. (a) In determining the wage
2-1 of a tipped employee, the amount paid the employee by the employer
2-2 is the federal wage as defined under the Fair Labor Standards Act
2-3 of 1938 (29 U.S.C. Section 203(m)) [considered to be increased
2-4 because of tips by an amount determined by the employer but that
2-5 does not exceed 50 percent of the applicable minimum wage rate].
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