By Thompson H.B. No. 327
76R2415 CMR-D
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.