[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1009 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1009

 To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase the Federal 
                             minimum wage.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 11, 1997

  Mr. Kennedy 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 Federal 
                             minimum wage.

    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 ``American Family Fair Minimum Wage 
Act of 1997''.

SEC. 2. MINIMUM WAGE INCREASE.

    Paragraph (1) of section 6(a) 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--
            ``(A) $5.65 an hour during the year beginning on September 
        1, 1998;
            ``(B) $6.15 an hour during the year beginning on September 
        1, 1999;
            ``(C) $6.65 an hour during the year beginning on September 
        1, 2000;
            ``(D) $6.95 an hour during the year beginning on September 
        1, 2001; and
            ``(E) $7.25 an hour during the year beginning on September 
        1, 2002.''
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