[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2570 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2570

   To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to establish a base 
                   minimum wage for tipped employees.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 21, 2009

   Ms. Edwards of Maryland (for herself, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Lewis of 
 Georgia, Ms. Pingree of Maine, Mr. Carson of Indiana, Ms. Waters, Mr. 
Hare, Ms. Clarke, Ms. Sutton, Mr. Butterfield, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, 
   Mr. McGovern, Ms. Woolsey, Ms. Lee of California, Ms. Watson, Ms. 
McCollum, Ms. DeLauro, Mr. Connolly of Virginia, Mr. Moran of Virginia, 
 Mr. Ellison, and Mr. Welch) 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 establish a base 
                   minimum wage for tipped employees.

    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 ``Working for Adequate Gains for 
Employment in Services Act'' or ``WAGES Act''.

SEC. 2. BASE MINIMUM WAGE FOR TIPPED EMPLOYEES.

    Section 3(m)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 
203(m)(1)) is amended by adding before the semicolon the following: ``, 
except that, for purposes of this paragraph, the cash wage paid such 
employee shall be not less than--
                    ``(A) $3.75 an hour beginning 90 days after the 
                date of enactment of the Working for Adequate Gains for 
                Employment in Services Act;
                    ``(B) $5.00 an hour beginning July 1, 2011; and
                    ``(C) beginning on July 1, 2012 and adjusted as 
                necessary thereafter, 70 percent of the wage in effect 
                under section 6(a)(1) but in no case less than $5.50 an 
                hour.''.

SEC. 3. PUBLICATION OF NOTICE.

    Section 6 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 206) 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(h) Not later than 10 days prior to the effective date of any 
increase in the minimum wage for tipped employees in accordance with 
section 3(m)(1), the Secretary shall publish (in the Federal Register 
and on the Internet website of the Department of Labor) a notice 
announcing the amount of the adjusted wage.''.
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