Catching Up To 1968 Act of 2012

Catching Up To 1968 Act of 2012 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase to $10.00 an hour (adjusted annually based on increases in the Consumer Price Index) the federal minimum wage for employees.

Increases to $5.50 an hour (adjusted annually as necessary) the federal minimum wage for tipped employees.

Directs the Secretary of Labor, 60 days before any increase in the minimum wage, to publish the increase in the Federal Register and on the Department of Labor's website.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5901 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5901

    To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for an 
 increase in the Federal minimum wage and to index future increases to 
          such wage to increases in the consumer price index.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 6, 2012

Mr. Jackson of Illinois (for himself, Ms. Roybal-Allard, Mr. Towns, Mr. 
   Lewis of Georgia, Ms. Norton, Mr. Conyers, Mr. Honda, Ms. Bass of 
 California, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. Hastings of Florida, Mr. Rush, 
 Ms. Schakowsky, Ms. Waters, Ms. Moore, Ms. Fudge, Ms. Jackson Lee of 
  Texas, Mr. Cleaver, and Ms. Edwards) 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 to index future increases to 
          such wage to increases in the consumer price index.

    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 ``Catching Up To 1968 Act of 2012''.

SEC. 2. INCREASES IN THE FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE.

    (a) Minimum Wage.--Section 6(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act 
of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 206(a)(1)) is amended by striking subparagraphs (A) 
through (C) and inserting the following:
                    ``(A) $10.00 an hour, beginning 60 days after the 
                date of enactment of the Catching Up To 1968 Act of 
                2012; and
                    ``(B) beginning 1 year after the wage provided for 
                in subparagraph (A) takes effect and each year 
                thereafter, the wage then in effect 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 preceding year.''.
    (b) Minimum Wage for Tipped Employees.--Section 3(m)(1) of the Fair 
Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 203(m)(1)) is amended by adding 
before the semicolon the following: ``, except that, for purposes of 
this paragraph, beginning 60 days after the date of enactment of the 
Catching Up To 1968 Act of 2012, the cash wage paid such employee shall 
be 70 percent of the wage in effect under section 6(a)(1) but in no 
case less than $5.50 an hour, adjusted annually as necessary 
thereafter''.
    (c) Publication of Wages.--Section 6 of the Fair Labor Standards 
Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 206) is further amended by adding after 
subsection (b) the following:
    ``(c) Not later than 60 days prior to the effective date of any 
increase in the minimum wage pursuant to subsection (a)(1)(B) or 
increase in the minimum wage for tipped employees in accordance with 
section 3(m)(1), the Secretary shall publish in the Federal Register 
and on the Internet website of the Department of Labor a notice 
announcing the adjusted required wage or wages.''.
    (d) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsections (a) and (b) 
shall take effect 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act.
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