[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2357 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2357

 To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide that a State 
 or local government may not, in their minimum wage laws, ordinances, 
regulations, or orders, preclude a tip credit or require a certain tip 
                                credit.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 31, 1997

 Mr. Riggs (for himself, Mr. Ramstad, Mr. Cunningham, Mr. McKeon, Mr. 
  Campbell, and Mr. Bilbray) introduced the following bill; which was 
        referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide that a State 
 or local government may not, in their minimum wage laws, ordinances, 
regulations, or orders, preclude a tip credit or require a certain tip 
                                credit.

    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 ``Tipped Wage Parity Act''.

SEC. 2. RELATION TO OTHER LAWS.

    Section 18 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 218) 
is amended by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection (c) and by 
adding after subsection (a) the following:
    ``(b) No law, ordinance, regulation, or order established or 
enforced by a State or a political subdivision of a State shall 
prohibit an employer from applying a tip credit as authorized by 
section 3(m) if the employer pays cash wages to tipped employees that 
are no less than the minimum cash wage required by such law, ordinance, 
regulation, or order on the date of the enactment of this 
subsection.''.
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