REPORT TITLE:
Minimum wage


DESCRIPTION:
Raises the minimum wage to $5.75 and leaves the tip credit amount
blank in 2003. (SB2893 HD1)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                        2893
THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           S.D. 1
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                H.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO MINIMUM WAGE.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  Section 387-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 2 amended to read as follows:
 
 3      "�387-2 Minimum wages. (a) Except as provided in section
 
 4 387-9 and this section, every employer shall pay to each employee
 
 5 employed by the employer wages at the rate of not less than
 
 6 [$3.85 per hour beginning January 1, 1988, $4.75 per hour
 
 7 beginning April 1, 1992, and] $5.25 per hour beginning January 1,
 
 8 1993[.], and $5.75 per hour beginning January 1, 2003.  
 
 9      (b) The hourly wage of a tipped employee may be deemed to be
 
10 increased on account of tips if the employee is paid not less
 
11 than twenty cents below the applicable minimum wage by the
 
12 employee's employer and the combined amount the employee receives
 
13 from the employee's employer and in tips is at least fifty cents
 
14 more than the applicable minimum wage.  Beginning January 1,
 
15 2003, the hourly wage of a tipped employee may be deemed to be
 
16 increased on account of tips if the employee is paid not less
 
17 than          below the applicable minimum wage by the employee's
 
18 employer and the combined amount the employee receives from the
 
19 employee's employer and in tips is at least fifty cents more than
 
20 the applicable minimum wage."
 

 
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 1      SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
 2 New statutory material is underscored.
 
 3      SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.