Bill Text: PA SB326 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Further providing for minimum wages.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-01-28 - Referred to LABOR AND INDUSTRY [SB326 Detail]
Download: Pennsylvania-2013-SB326-Introduced.html
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THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. | 326 | Session of 2013 |
INTRODUCED BY TARTAGLIONE, STACK, KASUNIC, FARNESE, WASHINGTON, KITCHEN, HUGHES, FONTANA, SOLOBAY, COSTA AND BREWSTER, JANUARY 28, 2013
REFERRED TO LABOR AND INDUSTRY, JANUARY 28, 2013
AN ACT
1Amending the act of January 17, 1968 (P.L.11, No.5), entitled
2"An act establishing a fixed minimum wage and overtime rates
3for employes, with certain exceptions; providing for minimum
4rates for learners and apprentices; creating a Minimum Wage
5Advisory Board and defining its powers and duties; conferring
6powers and imposing duties upon the Department of Labor and
7Industry; imposing duties on employers; and providing
8penalties," further providing for minimum wages.
9The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
10hereby enacts as follows:
11Section 1. Section 4(a) of the act of January 17, 1968
12(P.L.11, No.5), known as The Minimum Wage Act of 1968, amended
13July 5, 2012 (P.L.987, No.109), is amended to read:
14Section 4. Minimum Wages.--Except as may otherwise be
15provided under this act:
16(a) Every employer shall pay to each of his or her employes
17wages for all hours worked at a rate of not less than:
18(1) Two dollars sixty-five cents ($2.65) an hour upon the
19effective date of this amendment.
20(2) Two dollars ninety cents ($2.90) an hour during the year
1beginning January 1, 1979.
2(3) Three dollars ten cents ($3.10) an hour during the year
3beginning January 1, 1980.
4(4) Three dollars thirty-five cents ($3.35) an hour after
5December 31, 1980.
6(5) Three dollars seventy cents ($3.70) an hour beginning
7February 1, 1989.
8(6) Five dollars fifteen cents ($5.15) an hour beginning
9September 1, 1997.
10(7) Six dollars twenty-five cents ($6.25) an hour beginning
11January 1, 2007.
12(8) Seven dollars fifteen cents ($7.15) an hour beginning
13July 1, 2007.
14(9) Beginning January 1, 2013, and each succeeding January 1
15thereafter, the minimum wage shall be increased by an annual
16cost-of-living adjustment calculated by applying the percentage
17change in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-
18U) for the Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland area,
19for the most recent twelve-month period for which figures have
20been officially reported by the United States Department of
21Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics sixty days prior to the date
22the adjustment is due to take effect, to the then current salary
23amounts. The percentage increase and the minimum wage amounts
24shall be determined by the secretary as herein prescribed and
25public notice given in the Pennsylvania Bulletin within ten days
26of the date such determination is made.
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28Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
