A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to amend the labor laws of north carolina to reduce the amount of tips that may be counted as wages of tipped Service workers through december 31, 2017, and requiring subsequently that no tips may be counted as wages beginning January 1, 2018.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Effective January 1, 2016, until December 31, 2016, G.S. 95‑25.3(f) reads as rewritten:
"(f)	Tips earned by a tipped service worker may be counted as wages only up to the amount of four dollars and twelve cents ($4.12) per hour. Tip pooling is permissible among service workers who customarily and regularly receive tips; however, no service worker's tips may be reduced by more than fifteen percent (15%) under a tip pooling arrangement."
SECTION 2.  Effective January 1, 2017, until December 31, 2017, G.S. 95‑25.3(f) as amended by Section 1 of this act, reads as rewritten:
"(f)	Tips earned by a tipped service worker may be counted as wages only up to the amount of two dollars and twelve cents ($2.12) per hour. Tip pooling is permissible among service workers who customarily and regularly receive tips; however, no service worker's tips may be reduced by more than fifteen percent (15%) under a tip pooling arrangement."
SECTION 3.  Effective January 1, 2018, G.S. 95‑25.3(f), as amended by Section 2 of this act, reads as rewritten:
"(f)	Tips earned by a tipped service worker may not be counted as wages. Tip pooling is permissible among service workers who customarily and regularly receive tips; however, no service worker's tips may be reduced by more than fifteen percent (15%) under a tip pooling arrangement."
SECTION 4.  This act is effective when it becomes law.