Minimum Wage Indexation Act of 2004

Minimum Wage Act of 2004 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase the Federal minimum wage to: (1) $5.85 an hour, beginning on the 60th day after enactment of this Act; (2) $6.45 an hour, beginning 365 days after that 60th day; (3) $7.00 an hour, beginning 365 days after the $5.85 rate begins; and (4) $7.00 an hour plus a yearly increase determined by the Secretary of Labor to be in proportion to any increase in the Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers for the period between the beginning of the $7.00 rate and the first day of each subsequent 365-day period.

[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5043 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5043

    To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for an 
     increase in the Federal minimum wage, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 9, 2004

  Mr. Bell (for himself and Mr. Neal of Massachusetts) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and 
                             the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for an 
     increase in the Federal minimum wage, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Minimum Wage Indexation Act of 
2004''.

SEC. 2. MINIMUM WAGE INDEXATION.

    (a) In General.--Section 6(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 
1938 (29 U.S.C. 206(a)(1)) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(1) except as otherwise provided in this section, not 
        less than the following--
                    ``(A) beginning on the date that is the 60th day 
                after the date of enactment of the Minimum Wage 
                Indexation Act of 2004, $5.85 an hour;
                    ``(B) beginning on the date that is 365 days after 
                that 60th day, $6.45 an hour;
                    ``(C) beginning on the date that is 365 days after 
                the date set forth in subparagraph (B), $7.00 an hour; 
                and
                    ``(D) beginning on the first day of each successive 
                365-day period commencing after the date set forth in 
                subparagraph (C), $7.00 an hour plus an increase 
                determined by the Secretary to be in proportion to the 
                increase in the Consumer Price Index for all urban 
                consumers for the period between the date referred to 
                in subparagraph (C) and the first day of each such 365-
                day period;''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act.
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