[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2514 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2514

    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

                           December 18, 2007

 Mr. Reid (for Mrs. Clinton) 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 2007''.

SEC. 2. MINIMUM WAGE.

    Section 6(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 
206(a)(1)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``and'' at the end; 
        and
            (2) by inserting after subparagraph (C), the following:
                    ``(D) $8.00 an hour, beginning on January 1, 2010;
                    ``(E) $8.75 an hour, beginning on October 1, 2010;
                    ``(F) $9.50 an hour, beginning on July 1, 2011; and
                    ``(G) beginning on July 1, 2012, and annually 
                adjusted on each July 1 thereafter, the amount of the 
                minimum wage for the year preceding the date of the 
                determination made under this subparagraph, increased 
                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);''.
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