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Introduced Session

This bill amends section 5 of P. L.1966, c.113 (C.34:11-56a4) to: (1) incorporate into that law the provisions of Article I, paragraph 23 of the State Constitution approved by ballot initiative in 2013 to increase the State minimum wage; and (2) provide further increases in the minimum wage beyond what is provided in the Constitution. The bill incorporates into the minimum wage law the constitutional provision increasing the minimum wage rate to $8.25 per hour on January 1, 2014, and increasing the rate on January 1 of any year after 2014 in which there was an increase, during the 12 months prior to the September 30 before that January 1, in the consumer price index for all urban wage earners and clerical workers (CPI-W). The bill also incorporates into the law the provision of the Constitution that whenever the federal minimum wage exceeds the State minimum wage, the federal minimum wage will be adopted as the State minimum wage and the increases based on increases in the CPI-W will be applied to the federal minimum wage rate. The bill also provides for certain increases in the State minimum wage beyond what is provided in the Constitution. Any of the following increases shall apply, if the increase is greater than the applicable increase in the CPI-W: the minimum wage rate will be increased to $10.10 per hour on January 1, 2017 and will be increased on January 1 of each year from 2017 to 2021 inclusive by the larger of $1.25 per hour or the sum of $1.00 per hour plus any increase in the CPI-W applicable to that year. Increases based on increases in the CPI-W will continue to be applied after 2021.

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Sandra Cunningham (D)*,  Stephen Sweeney (D)*,  Joe Vitale (D)*,  Nellie Pou (D),  Teresa Ruiz (D), 

Substituted by A15 (ACS) (on 06/23/2016)

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