GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

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HOUSE BILL 746

Short Title:  Increase Minimum Wage.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Representatives Blue, Ramsey; Beal and Fitch.

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Referred to:  Business and Labor.

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April 4, 1995

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR AN INCREASE IN THE MINIMUM WAGE IF THE FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE INCREASES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 95-25.3(a) reads as rewritten:
	"(a)	Every employer shall pay to each employee who in any workweek performs any work, wages of at least three dollars and eighty cents ($3.80) per hour effective January 1, 1992, and four dollars and twenty-five cents ($4.25) per hour effective January 1, 1993, except as otherwise provided in this section.  If the minimum wage set forth in the Fair Labor Standards Act is increased to five dollars ($5.00) per hour or more, then the minimum wage required under this section shall be five dollars ($5.00) per hour effective on the same date as the increase to five dollars ($5.00) per hour or more under the Fair Labor Standards Act becomes effective."
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.