THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY COHEN, THOMAS, DEAN, BISHOP, K. BOYLE, BRENNAN, BRIGGS, BROWNLEE, CALTAGIRONE, D. COSTA, DALEY, DEASY, DeLUCA, DONATUCCI, FRANKEL, FREEMAN, GEORGE, GOODMAN, HORNAMAN, JAMES, JOSEPHS, W. KELLER, MURPHY, NEILSON, M. O'BRIEN, PARKER, SABATINA, SCHMOTZER, WATERS, WILLIAMS, YOUNGBLOOD AND FABRIZIO, SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND INDUSTRY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2012  

AN ACT

Amending the act of January 17, 1968 (P.L.11, No.5), entitled

"An act establishing a fixed minimum wage and overtime rates

for employes, with certain exceptions; providing for minimum

rates for learners and apprentices; creating a Minimum Wage

Advisory Board and defining its powers and duties; conferring

powers and imposing duties upon the Department of Labor and

Industry; imposing duties on employers; and providing

penalties," further providing for minimum wages.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 4(a) of the act of January 17, 1968 (P.L.

11, No.5), known as The Minimum Wage Act of 1968, amended July

9, 2006 (P.L.1077, No.112), is amended to read:

Section 4.  Minimum Wages.--Except as may otherwise be

provided under this act:

(a)  Every employer shall pay to each of his or her employes

wages for all hours worked at a rate of not less than:

(1)  Two dollars sixty-five cents ($2.65) an hour upon the

effective date of this amendment.

(2)  Two dollars ninety cents ($2.90) an hour during the year

beginning January 1, 1979.

(3)  Three dollars ten cents ($3.10) an hour during the year

beginning January 1, 1980.

(4)  Three dollars thirty-five cents ($3.35) an hour after

December 31, 1980.

(5)  Three dollars seventy cents ($3.70) an hour beginning

February 1, 1989.

(6)  Five dollars fifteen cents ($5.15) an hour beginning

September 1, 1997.

(7)  Six dollars twenty-five cents ($6.25) an hour beginning

January 1, 2007.

(8)  Seven dollars fifteen cents ($7.15) an hour beginning

July 1, 2007.

(9)  Eight dollars fifty cents ($8.50) an hour beginning

September 1, 2012, or 60 days after this paragraph takes effect,

whichever is later.

(10)  Beginning January 1, 2014, and each succeeding January

1 thereafter, the minimum wage shall be increased by an annual

cost-of-living adjustment calculated by applying the percentage

change in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-

U) for the Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland area,

for the most recent twelve-month period for which figures have

been officially reported by the United States Department of

Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics sixty days prior to the date

the adjustment is due to take effect, to the then current salary

amounts if such rate of inflation is greater than zero percent.

The percentage increase and the minimum wage amounts shall be

determined by the secretary as herein prescribed and public

notice given in the Pennsylvania Bulletin within ten days of the

date such determination is made.

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Section 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.