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S12292022 Regular Session

Amends existing law to provide for an adjustment of the minimum wage.

EMPLOYMENT -- Amends existing law to provide for an adjustment of the minimum wage.

EMPLOYMENT

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

This legislation will * Increase Idaho's minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to $15.00 per hour effective July1, 2022; * Annually adjust Idaho's minimum wage in accordance with changes in the Consumer Price Index; * Eliminate the training wage exception to the minimum wage permitted by current law; * Permit cities and counties to set minimum wages higher than the state minimum wage; and * If the federal minimum wage ever exceeds the Idaho minimum wage, all employees will receive the federal minimum wage even if they are otherwise exempt from the federal minimum wage law.

LATEST ACTION

Reported Printed; referred to State Affairs

SPONSORS

D
Grant Burgoyne

Sen · SD-016

Primary

BILL INFO

Session
2022
Chamber
senate
Status date
Jan 20, 2022

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