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2024 SESSION
HB 1 Minimum wage; increases wage to $13.50 per hour effective January 1, 2025.
Introduced by: Jeion A. Ward | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Minimum wage. Increases the minimum wage from the current rate of $12.00 per hour to $13.50 per hour effective January 1, 2025, and to $15.00 per hour effective January 1, 2026. The bill satisfies a reenactment clause included in Chapters 1204 and 1242 of the Acts of Assembly of 2020. This bill is identical to SB 1.
FULL TEXT
- 11/20/23 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100469D pdf | impact statement
- 02/28/24 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1ER) pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 11/20/23 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100469D
- 11/20/23 House: Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
- 01/18/24 House: Reported from Labor and Commerce (12-Y 10-N)
- 01/18/24 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/21/24 House: Assigned App. sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources
- 01/24/24 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N)
- 01/29/24 House: Reported from Appropriations (11-Y 10-N)
- 01/31/24 House: Read first time
- 02/01/24 House: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/02/24 House: Read third time and passed House (51-Y 49-N)
- 02/02/24 House: VOTE: Passage (51-Y 49-N)
- 02/05/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/05/24 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/19/24 Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor (9-Y 5-N)
- 02/19/24 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/21/24 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 4-N)
- 02/22/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/24 Senate: Read third time
- 02/23/24 Senate: Passed Senate (21-Y 18-N)
- 02/28/24 House: Enrolled
- 02/28/24 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1ER)
- 02/28/24 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/02/24 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/24 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024
- 03/11/24 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
- 03/28/24 Governor: Vetoed by Governor
- 04/17/24 House: House sustained Governor's veto