Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2003

Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2003 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase the Federal minimum wage to: (1) $5.90 an hour, beginning on the 60th day after enactment of this Act; and (2) $6.65 an hour, beginning 12 months after that 60th day.

Makes Federal minimum wage requirements applicable to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Sets forth a transition period during which a specified minimum wage there shall be gradually increased to equal the Federal minimum wage.

[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 20 Introduced in Senate (IS)]






108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 20

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


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 7, 2003

   Mr. Daschle (for himself, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Harkin, Ms. 
Mikulski, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Edwards, Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Akaka, Mr. Bayh, 
Mr. Biden, Mr. Byrd, Ms. Cantwell, Mr. Carper, Mr. Corzine, Mr. Dayton, 
  Mr. Durbin, Mr. Feingold, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Kerry, Mr. Kohl, Mr. 
    Leahy, Mr. Levin, Mr. Lieberman, Mr. Reid, Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. 
  Sarbanes, Mr. Schumer, Ms. Stabenow, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Lautenberg, Ms. 
  Landrieu, Mrs. Boxer, and Mr. Pryor) introduced the following bill; 
     which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, 
                     Education, Labor, and Pensions

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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.

    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 ``Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2003''.

SEC. 2. MINIMUM WAGE.

    (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--
                    ``(A) $5.90 an hour, beginning on the 60th day 
                after the date of enactment of the Fair Minimum Wage 
                Act of 2003; and
                    ``(B) $6.65 an hour, beginning 12 months after that 
                60th day;''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act.

SEC. 3. APPLICABILITY OF MINIMUM WAGE TO THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE 
              NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS.

    (a) In General.--Section 6 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 
(29 U.S.C. 206) shall apply to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
Islands.
    (b) Transition.--Notwithstanding subsection (a), the minimum wage 
applicable to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands under 
section 6(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 
206(a)(1)) shall be--
            (1) $3.55 an hour, beginning on the 60th day after the date 
        of enactment of this Act; and
            (2) increased by $0.50 an hour (or such lesser amount as 
        may be necessary to equal the minimum wage under section 
        6(a)(1) of such Act), beginning 6 months after the date of 
        enactment of this Act and every 6 months thereafter until the 
        minimum wage applicable to the Commonwealth of the Northern 
        Mariana Islands under this subsection is equal to the minimum 
        wage set forth in such section.
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