[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 281 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 281

   To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide that the 
minimum wage rate under that Act will be indexed to the cost of living 
      in the same manner as Social Security benefits are indexed.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 5, 1993

   Mr. Miller of California (for himself, Mr. Stark, Mr. Owens, Mr. 
   Berman, Ms. Norton, Ms. Pelosi, Mr. Coleman, Mr. Dellums, and Mr. 
    Towns) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide that the 
minimum wage rate under that Act will be indexed to the cost of living 
      in the same manner as Social Security benefits are indexed.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Fair Wage Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. INDEXING OF MINIMUM WAGE.

    (a) Rate.--Section 6(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 
(29 U.S.C. 206(a)(1)) is amended by inserting before the semicolon the 
following: ``or the wage rate as determined under subsection (g)''.
    (b) Increase.--Section 6 of such Act (29 U.S.C. 206) is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
    ``(g) At the beginning of each calendar year, the Secretary shall 
adjust the rate applicable under subsection (a)(1) in the same manner 
as the primary insurance amount is adjusted for such calendar year 
under section 215(i) of the Social Security Act.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by section 2 shall take effect with respect to 
calendar years which begin 1994.

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