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SB 428 fails 17-23
SB 428 was a bill that would have prohibited localities from enforcing living wage laws. Living wage laws - as opposed to minimum wage laws - are designed to index a person's income working in such a way that will allow that person to live off of 40 hours a week. Currently, the national living wage index is about $8.85/hr for a family of four, and $7.52/hr for a familiy of three. The current minimum wage is $5.15/hr.
Summary of SB 428 as introduced:
Minimum wage. Provides that no public body may require the payment of a minimum wage that exceeds the federal minimum wage to the employees of an employer, or his subcontractor, contracting to provide goods or services to the public body.
YEAS--Bell, Blevins, Bolling, Cuccinelli, Devolites, Martin, Mims, Newman, Obenshain, O'Brien, Rerras, Ruff, Stolle, Stosch, Wagner, Watkins, Williams--17.
NAYS--Chichester, Colgan, Deeds, Edwards, Hanger, Hawkins, Houck, Howell, Lambert, Locke, Lucas, Marsh, Miller, Norment, Potts, Puckett, Puller, Quayle, Reynolds, Saslaw, Ticer, Wampler, Whipple--23.
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