REPORT TITLE:
Tip Credit


DESCRIPTION:
Eliminates the minimum wage tip credit.  (SD1)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           S.D. 1
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO WAGES AND TIPS OF EMPLOYEES. 


BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  Section 387-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 2 amended to read as follows:
 
 3      "§387-2 Minimum wages.  Except as provided in section 387-9
 
 4 and this section, every employer shall pay to each employee
 
 5 employed by the employer wages at the rate of not less than
 
 6 [$3.85 per hour beginning January 1, 1988, $4.75 per hour
 
 7 beginning April 1, 1992, and] $5.25 per hour beginning January 1,
 
 8 1993.  [The hourly wage of a tipped employee may be deemed to be
 
 9 increased on account of tips if the employee is paid not less
 
10 than twenty cents below the applicable minimum wage by the
 
11 employee's employer and the combined amount the employee receives
 
12 from the employee's employer and in tips is at least fifty cents
 
13 more than the applicable minimum wage.]"
 
14      SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed. 
 
15      SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.