Report Title:

Minimum wage

 

Description:

Raises the minimum wage to $5.95 and may incrementally increase the minimum wage based on the value of the dollar based on the average annual consumer price index for the State of Hawaii.

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1594

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to minimum wage.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 387-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§387-2 Minimum wages. Except as provided in section 387-9 and this section, every employer shall pay to each employee employed by the employer wages at the rate of not less than [$3.85 per hour beginning January 1, 1988, $4.75 per hour beginning April 1, 1992, and] $5.25 per hour beginning January 1, 1993[.], and $5.95 per hour beginning January 1, 2002. Beginning January 1, 2003, this amount may be increased incrementally with the value of the dollar based on the average annual consumer price index for the State of Hawaii. The hourly wage of a tipped employee may be deemed to be increased on account of tips if the employee is paid not less than twenty cents below the applicable minimum wage by the employee's employer and the combined amount the employee receives from the employee's employer and in tips is at least fifty cents more than the applicable minimum wage."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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