Kentucky House Bill 278 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: Introduced on January 20 2016 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-03-09 - floor amendments (3) and (4) filed to Committee Substitute
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [PDF]

Amend KRS 337.275 to raise the state minimum wage to $8.20 per hour on August 1, 2016, $9.15 per hour on July 1, 2017, and $10.10 per hour on July 1, 2018; amend KRS 337.010 the definition of employees of retail stores and service industries, to increase the applicable threshold of business that applies to from $95,000 to $500,000; amend KRS 337.420 to define "equivalent jobs" as those that are equal under the federal Equal Pay Act, or jobs that are dissimilar but equivalent in skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions; amend KRS 337.423 to prohibit wage discrimination on the basis of sex, race, or national origin by prohibiting wage differentials for employees who perform equivalent jobs; provide exceptions for wage differentials based on seniority or merit systems, systems that measure wages by quantity or quality of production, and factors other than sex, race, or national origin; amend KRS 337.425 to require the promulgation of administrative regulations to specify criteria for determining jobs that are dominated by employees of a particular sex, race, or national origin, and acceptable methodology for determining equivalent skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions; require that the promulgation occur on or before July 1, 2017; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2018.

AN ACT relating to wages.

Rep. Gregory Stumbo [D]	Rep. Tom Riner [D]	Rep. Will Coursey [D]	Rep. Jeffery Donohue [D]
Rep. Charles Miller [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-03-09	House	floor amendments (3) and (4) filed to Committee Substitute
2016-03-08	House	floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute, floor amendment (2) filed
2016-03-08	House	posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday March 9, 2016
2016-03-08	House	reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1)
2016-03-04	House	posted in committee
2016-02-01	House	recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
2016-01-29	House	2nd reading, to Rules
2016-01-28	House	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
2016-01-25	House	posted in committee
2016-01-21	House	to Labor & Industry (H)
2016-01-20	House	introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB278.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB278/bill.pdf
Amendment	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB278/HCS1.pdf
Amendment	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB278/HFA1.pdf
Amendment	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB278/HFA2.pdf
Amendment	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB278/HFA3.pdf
Amendment	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB278/HFA4.pdf
Supplement	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB278/LM.pdf
Supplement	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB278/HCS1LM.pdf