[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 H. R. 2

    To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for an 
                 increase in the Federal minimum wage.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 5, 2007

Mr. George Miller of California (for himself, Mr. Hoyer, Mr. Donnelly, 
   Mr. Al Green of Texas, Mr. Ackerman, Mr. Allen, Mr. Altmire, Mr. 
 Andrews, Mr. Arcuri, Mr. Baca, Mr. Baird, Ms. Baldwin, Ms. Bean, Mr. 
 Becerra, Ms. Berkley, Mr. Berman, Mr. Berry, Mr. Bishop of New York, 
 Mr. Blumenauer, Ms. Bordallo, Mr. Boswell, Mr. Boucher, Mr. Brady of 
  Pennsylvania, Mr. Braley of Iowa, Mr. Butterfield, Mrs. Capps, Mr. 
    Capuano, Mr. Cardoza, Mr. Carnahan, Mr. Carney, Ms. Castor, Mr. 
  Chandler, Mrs. Christensen, Ms. Clarke, Mr. Clay, Mr. Cleaver, Mr. 
    Clyburn, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Conyers, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Costello, Mr. 
    Courtney, Mr. Crowley, Mr. Cuellar, Mr. Cummings, Mr. Davis of 
Illinois, Mr. Davis of Alabama, Mr. DeFazio, Ms. DeGette, Mr. Delahunt, 
   Ms. DeLauro, Mr. Dicks, Mr. Dingell, Mr. Doggett, Mr. Doyle, Mr. 
    Ellison, Mr. Ellsworth, Mr. Emanuel, Mr. Engel, Ms. Eshoo, Mr. 
  Etheridge, Mr. Faleomavaega, Mr. Farr, Mr. Fattah, Mr. Filner, Mr. 
 Frank of Massachusetts, Ms. Giffords, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. Gordon of 
 Tennessee, Mr. Gene Green of Texas, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Gutierrez, Mr. 
 Hall of New York, Mr. Hare, Ms. Harman, Mr. Hastings of Florida, Ms. 
Herseth, Mr. Higgins, Mr. Hill, Mr. Hinchey, Mr. Hinojosa, Ms. Hirono, 
Mr. Hodes, Mr. Holden, Mr. Holt, Mr. Honda, Ms. Hooley, Mr. Inslee, Mr. 
 Israel, Mr. Jackson of Illinois, Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas, Ms. Eddie 
   Bernice Johnson of Texas, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Kagen, Mr. 
  Kanjorski, Ms. Kaptur, Mr. Kildee, Ms. Kilpatrick of Michigan, Mr. 
 Kind, Mr. Klein of Florida, Mr. Kucinich, Mr. Lampson, Mr. Langevin, 
 Mr. Lantos, Mr. Larsen of Washington, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Mr. 
LaTourette, Ms. Lee, Mr. Levin, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, Mr. Lipinski, Mr. 
LoBiondo, Mr. Loebsack, Ms. Zoe Lofgren of California, Mrs. Lowey, Mr. 
 Lynch, Mr. Mahoney of Florida, Mrs. Maloney of New York, Mr. Markey, 
Ms. Matsui, Ms. McCollum of Minnesota, Mr. McDermott, Mr. McGovern, Mr. 
 McHugh, Mr. McIntyre, Mr. McNerney, Mr. McNulty, Mr. Meehan, Mr. Meek 
  of Florida, Mr. Michaud, Ms. Millender-McDonald, Mr. Mitchell, Mr. 
  Moore of Kansas, Ms. Moore of Wisconsin, Mr. Moran of Virginia, Mr. 
  Murphy of Connecticut, Mr. Patrick Murphy of Pennsylvania, Mr. Tim 
 Murphy of Pennsylvania, Mr. Nadler, Mrs. Napolitano, Ms. Norton, Mr. 
 Oberstar, Mr. Obey, Mr. Olver, Mr. Ortiz, Mr. Pallone, Mr. Pascrell, 
 Mr. Pastor, Mr. Payne, Mr. Perlmutter, Mr. Peterson of Minnesota, Mr. 
   Pomeroy, Mr. Price of North Carolina, Mr. Rahall, Mr. Rangel, Mr. 
  Reyes, Mr. Rodriguez, Mr. Ross, Mr. Rothman, Ms. Roybal-Allard, Mr. 
 Ruppersberger, Mr. Rush, Mr. Ryan of Ohio, Mr. Salazar, Ms. Linda T. 
 Sanchez of California, Mr. Sarbanes, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Schiff, Mr. 
 Scott of Georgia, Mr. Scott of Virginia, Mr. Serrano, Mr. Sestak, Mr. 
    Shays, Ms. Shea-Porter, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Shuler, Mr. Sires, Mr. 
   Skelton, Ms. Slaughter, Mr. Smith of Washington, Mr. Smith of New 
 Jersey, Mr. Snyder, Ms. Solis, Mr. Space, Mr. Spratt, Mr. Stark, Mr. 
  Stupak, Ms. Sutton, Mrs. Tauscher, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Mr. 
 Thompson of California, Mr. Tierney, Mrs. Jones of Ohio, Mr. Udall of 
 Colorado, Mr. Udall of New Mexico, Mr. Van Hollen, Ms. Velazquez, Mr. 
 Walsh of New York, Mr. Walz of Minnesota, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Ms. 
 Waters, Ms. Watson, Mr. Waxman, Mr. Weiner, Mr. Welch of Vermont, Mr. 
  Wexler, Mr. Wilson of Ohio, Ms. Woolsey, Mr. Wu, Mr. Wynn, and Mr. 
   Yarmuth) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Education and Labor

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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.

    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 2007''.

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) except as otherwise provided in this section, not 
        less than--
                    ``(A) $5.85 an hour, beginning on the 60th day 
                after the date of enactment of the Fair Minimum Wage 
                Act of 2007;
                    ``(B) $6.55 an hour, beginning 12 months after that 
                60th day; and
                    ``(C) $7.25 an hour, beginning 24 months after that 
                60th day;''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act.

SEC. 3. APPLICABILITY OF MINIMUM WAGE TO THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE 
              NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS.

    (a) In General.--Section 6 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 
(29 U.S.C. 206) shall apply to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
Islands.
    (b) Transition.--Notwithstanding subsection (a), the minimum wage 
applicable to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands under 
section 6(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 
206(a)(1)) shall be--
            (1) $3.55 an hour, beginning on the 60th day after the date 
        of enactment of this Act; and
            (2) increased by $0.50 an hour (or such lesser amount as 
        may be necessary to equal the minimum wage under section 
        6(a)(1) of such Act), beginning 6 months after the date of 
        enactment of this Act and every 6 months thereafter until the 
        minimum wage applicable to the Commonwealth of the Northern 
        Mariana Islands under this subsection is equal to the minimum 
        wage set forth in such section.
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