[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1805 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1805

 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

                             March 19, 1998

   Mr. Kennedy (for himself, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Daschle, Mr. Inouye, Mr. 
    Bumpers, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Moynihan, Mr. Sarbanes, Mr. Levin, Mr. 
 Lautenberg, Mr. Harkin, Mr. Kerry, Mr. Rockefeller, Ms. Mikulski, Mr. 
Wellstone, Mrs. Boxer, Mr. Feingold, Mrs. Feinstein, Ms. Moseley-Braun, 
  Mr. Durbin, Mr. Reed, and Mr. Torricelli) 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 ``Fair Minimum Wage Act of 1998''.

SEC. 2. MINIMUM WAGE INCREASE.

    (a) Wage.--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 
                January 1, 1999; and
                    ``(B) $6.15 an hour during the year beginning on 
                January 1, 2000.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) takes 
effect on January 1, 1999.
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