GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001
S	1
SENATE BILL 809
     

 
Short Title:	Livable State Minimum Wage.	()	
Sponsors:	Senators Martin of Guilford, Lucas;  Clodfelter, Kinnaird, and Miller.	
Referred to:	Commerce.	
April 3, 2001

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT amending the wage and hour act to raise the state minimum wage to a livable wage.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 95‑25.3(a) reads as rewritten:
"§ 95‑25.3.  Minimum wage.
(a)	Every employer shall pay to each employee who in any workweek performs any work, wages of six dollars and fifteen cents ($6.15) per hour, increasing to seven dollars and fifteen cents ($7.15) per hour on Labor Day 2002, and increasing to eight dollars and fifty cents ($8.50) per hour on Labor Day 2003, except as otherwise provided in this section. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this subsection, if the federal minimum wage set forth in paragraph 1 of section 6(a) of the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. § 206(a)(1), increases to a level exceeding the minimum wage provided in this subsection, then the State minimum wage shall automatically increase to the federal level."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective September 3, 2001.