Bill Text: MI SB0912 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Labor; hours and wages; minimum wage; provide for increases. Amends secs. 4 & 7a of 1964 PA 154 (MCL 408.384 & 408.387a).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-29 - Referred To Committee On Government Operations [SB0912 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2013-SB0912-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 912

 

 

April 29, 2014, Introduced by Senator JONES and referred to the Committee on Government Operations.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1964 PA 154, entitled

 

"Minimum wage law of 1964,"

 

by amending sections 4 and 7a (MCL 408.384 and 408.387a), section 4

 

as amended by 2006 PA 81 and section 7a as amended by 1997 PA 1.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 4. (1) Subject to the exceptions specified in this act,

 

the minimum hourly wage rate shall be:

 

     (a) Beginning September 1, 1997, $5.15.

 

     (b) Beginning October 1, 2006, $6.95.

 

     (c) Beginning July 1, 2007, $7.15.

 

     (a) (d) Beginning July 1, 2008, $7.40.

 

     (b) Beginning December 1, 2014, $8.15.

 

     (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), if a ballot proposal that

 

establishes a minimum wage is approved by the majority of electors

 

voting on the question at the general election on November 7, 2006,

 

the minimum wage shall be as established in the ballot proposal.

 

     Sec. 7a. (1) The minimum hourly wage rate of an employee shall

 

be $2.65 per hour, and beginning December 1, 2014, $2.75 per hour,

 

if all of the following occur:

 

     (a) The employee receives gratuities in the course of his or

 

her employment.

 

     (b) The gratuities described in subdivision (a) equal or

 

exceed the difference between $2.65 per hour, or beginning December

 

1, 2014, $2.75 per hour, and the minimum hourly wage established

 

under section 4.

 

     (c) The gratuities are proven gratuities as indicated by the

 

employee's declaration for federal insurance contribution act

 

purposes.

 

     (d) The employee was informed by the employer of the

 

provisions of this section.

 

     (2) As used in this section, "gratuities" means tips or

 

voluntary monetary contributions received by an employee from a

 

guest, patron, or customer for services rendered to that guest,

 

patron, or customer and that the employee reports to the employer

 

for purposes of the federal insurance contribution act, chapter 21

 

of subtitle C of the internal revenue code of 1986, 26 U.S.C. USC

 

3101 to 3128.