[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 104 (Tuesday, June 28, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S4669]
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  SA 4915. Mr. BLUMENTHAL submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed by him to the bill S. 2328, to reauthorize and amend the 
National Sea Grant College Program Act, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       Strike section 403 and insert the following:

     SEC. 403. FIRST MINIMUM WAGE IN PUERTO RICO.

       Section 6(g) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 
     U.S.C. 206(g)) is amended--
       (1) by redesignating paragraph (4) as paragraph (5); and
       (2) by striking paragraphs (2) and (3) and inserting the 
     following:
       ``(2) In lieu of the rate prescribed by subsection (a)(1), 
     the Governor of Puerto Rico, subject to the approval of the 
     Financial Oversight and Management Board established pursuant 
     to section 101 of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and 
     Economic Stability Act, may designate a time period not to 
     exceed four years during which employers in Puerto Rico may 
     pay employees who are initially employed after the date of 
     enactment of such Act a wage which is not less than the wage 
     described in paragraph (1). Notwithstanding the time period 
     designated, such wage shall not continue in effect after such 
     Board terminates in accordance with section 209 of such Act.
       ``(3) No employer may take any action to displace employees 
     (including partial displacements such as reduction in hours, 
     wages, or employment benefits) for purposes of hiring 
     individuals at the wage authorized in paragraph (1) or (2).
       ``(4) Any employer who violates this subsection shall be 
     considered to have violated section 15(a)(3) (29 U.S.C. 
     215(a)(3)).''.
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