[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 413 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 413

 To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase the minimum 
           wage rate under such Act, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

            February 14 (legislative day, January 30), 1995

 Mr. Daschle (for himself, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Pell, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Simon, 
Mr. Harkin, Ms. Mikulski, Mr. Wellstone, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Lautenberg, and 
  Mr. Kerry) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
         referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase the minimum 
           wage rate under such Act, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Working Wage Increase Act of 1995''.

SEC. 2. INCREASE IN THE MINIMUM WAGE RATE.

    Section 6(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 
206(a)(1)) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(1) except as otherwise provided in this section, not 
        less than $4.25 an hour during the period ending July 3, 1995, 
        not less than $4.70 an hour during the year beginning July 4, 
        1995, and not less than $5.15 an hour after July 3, 1996;''.
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