Bill > HB266

This bill clarifies that the definition of employees who receive gratuities also includes those who receive tips, and that these employees must earn more than 50% of their income from tips or gratuities. The bill allows employers to continue paying a tipped minimum wage to primary direct service employees, but employers cannot require employees to participate in tip pooling arrangements - these must be controlled by the employees themselves. The bill also specifies that tips automatically added to a bill or charged to a credit card must be paid directly to the employee by the employer on the next regular payday, and the employer cannot deduct any service fees from the employee's tips or gratuities.