Minimum wage-federal minimum amount.

2015
STATE OF WYOMING
15LSO-0288
Numbered
2.1

HOUSE BILL

NO.

HB0218

Minimum wage-federal minimum amount.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Petroff and Madden and Senator(s) Hastert

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to labor and employment; setting the minimum wage to the federal minimum wage as specified; providing a definition; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1
.

W.S. 27
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4
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201
(
a)

by creating a new paragraph (vii)
and 27
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4
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202
(a), (b) and by creating
a
new subsection (d)
are amended to read:

27
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201
.

Definitions.

(a)

As used in this act:

(vii)

"Tipped employee" includes any employee who customarily and regularly receives more than thirty dollars ($30.00) in tips each month.

27
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202
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Minimum wage rates.

(a)

Every employer shall pay to each of his
or her

employees
wages at a rate of not less than
five dollars and fifteen cents ($5.15) per hour

the federal minimum wage as provided in the Fair Labor Standards Act
.

(b)

Effective April 1, 2001 and thereafter, all

E
mployers who employ tipped employees shall not pay less than
two dollars and thirteen cents ($2.13) per hour to his
the federal minimum wage for

tipped employees. Provided further, if the wage paid by the employer combined with the tips received by the employee during a given pay period does not equal at least the applicable minimum wage as prescribed in subsection (a) of this section, the employer shall pay the difference to the tipped employee. For the purposes of this act, all
"tip"
tipped

employees shall furnish monthly to their respective employers the daily record of tips required to be kept by
"tip"
tipped
employees under the laws of the United States and upon the forms prescribed by the internal revenue service of the United States treasury department. The daily record of tips shall constitute prima facie proof of the amount of tips received by the employee. Proof of a customary tipping percentage of sales or service shall also be an admissible form of proof of the amount of tips.
A "tip" employee is one who customarily and regularly receives more than thirty dollars ($30.00) a month in tips.

(d)

Federal exceptions to the federal minimum wage included in the Fair Labor Standards Act and any rates specified by those exceptions shall apply to the rates specified under subsections (a) and (b) of this section
.

Section 2
.

W.S. 27
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4
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202(c) is repealed.

Section
3
.

This
act is effective July 1,
2015
.

(END)

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