2015 Senate Bill 391

Increase minimum wage mandate on employers

Introduced in the Senate

June 10, 2015

Introduced by Sen. Bert Johnson (D-2)

To make it unlawful to employ a worker for less than $9.30 an hour beginning in Sept. 1, 2015, and increase this in steps to $15.00 in 2018. The current state minimum wage mandate hourly employees not covered by a federal wage mandate is $8.15 an hour, increasing to $9.25 an hour in 2018, and then index it to inflation.

Referred to the Committee on Government Operations