[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2725 Introduced in Senate (IS)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2725

    To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for an 
 increase in the Federal minimum wage and to ensure that increases in 
the Federal minimum wage keep pace with any pay adjustments for Members 
                              of Congress.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 4, 2006

 Mrs. Clinton (for herself, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Jeffords, Mr. Leahy, Mr. 
 Harkin, and Mr. Obama) introduced the following bill; which was read 
 twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and 
                                Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for an 
 increase in the Federal minimum wage and to ensure that increases in 
the Federal minimum wage keep pace with any pay adjustments for Members 
                              of Congress.

    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 ``Standing with Minimum Wage Earners 
Act of 2006''.

SEC. 2. MINIMUM WAGE.

    (a) In General.--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)(A) except as otherwise provided in this section, not 
        less than--
                    ``(i) $5.85 an hour, beginning on the 60th day 
                after the date of enactment of the Standing with 
                Minimum Wage Earners Act of 2006;
                    ``(ii) $6.55 an hour, beginning 12 months after 
                that 60th day, adjusted for that year as provided for 
                in subparagraph (B); and
                    ``(iii) $7.25 an hour, beginning 24 months after 
                that 60th day, adjusted each year as provided for in 
                subparagraph (B); and
            ``(B) the wage provided for under clauses (ii) and (iii) of 
        subparagraph (A) shall be automatically increased for the year 
        involved by a percentage equal to the percentage by which the 
        annual rate of pay for Members of Congress increased for such 
        year as provided for pursuant to the Legislative Reorganization 
        Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 31).''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act.
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