HB 1790 - DIGEST

Provides that the adjusted minimum wage rate may not exceed seven dollars and thirty-five cents or one hundred twenty-five percent of the average state minimum wage rate, whichever is greater. However, in no case shall the adjusted minimum wage rate be less than seven dollars and thirty-five cents.

Declares that "average state minimum wage rate" means the sum of the minimum wage rates set pursuant to state law and in effect on each September 1st in each of the fifty states divided by fifty. If there is not a minimum wage rate set pursuant to state law in one or more states, the average rate is calculated using the minimum wage rate set pursuant to section (6)(a)(1) of the fair labor standards act of 1938, as amended (29 U.S.C. Sec. 206(a)(1)), in place of a minimum wage rate set pursuant to state law in each of those states.