[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 505 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 505

  To provide for increases in the Federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 25, 2023

  Mr. Cohen introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide for increases in the Federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.

    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 ``Living Wage Now Act''.

SEC. 2. MINIMUM WAGE INCREASES.

    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) $15 an hour, beginning on the effective date 
                under section 3 of the Living Wage Now Act;''.

SEC. 3. GENERAL EFFECTIVE DATE.

    Except as otherwise provided in this Act or the amendments made by 
this Act, this Act and the amendments made by this Act shall take 
effect on the first day of the third month that begins after the date 
of enactment of this Act.
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