Key Votes
A 2162 - Increases Minimum Wage - Key Vote
New Jersey Key Votes
Nicholas Scutari voted Yea (Passage With Amendment) on this legislation.
Read recent statements Nicholas Scutari made in this general time period.
Stages
- Jan. 28, 2013 Executive Vetoed
- Dec. 3, 2012 House Concurrence Vote Passed
- Nov. 29, 2012 Senate Bill Passed
- May 24, 2012 House Bill Passed
- Jan. 30, 2012 Introduced
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Stage Details
Legislation - Vetoed (Conditional Veto) (Executive) - Jan. 28, 2013
Title: Increases Minimum Wage
Legislation - Concurrence Vote Passed (House) (44-31) - Dec. 3, 2012 (Key vote)
Title: Increases Minimum Wage
Vote to pass a bill that increases the minimum hourly wage.
- Increases the minimum hourly wage rate from $7.15 per hour to $8.50 per hour, effective March 1, 2013 (Sec. 1).
- Requires the commissioner to increase the minimum hourly wage in direct proportion to any increase in the Consumer Price Index, or if the federal minimum wage is increased above the rate set by the state (Sec. 1).
- Requires any subsequent increase in the minimum hourly wage rate to become effective on the following January 1 (Sec. 1).
Legislation - Bill Passed (Senate) (23-16) - Nov. 29, 2012 (Key vote)
Title: Increases Minimum Wage
Vote to pass a bill that increases the minimum hourly wage.
- Increases the minimum hourly wage rate from $7.15 per hour to $8.50 per hour, effective March 1, 2013 (Sec. 1).
- Requires the commissioner to increase the minimum hourly wage in direct proportion to any increase in the Consumer Price Index, or if the federal minimum wage is increased above the rate set by the state (Sec. 1).
- Requires any subsequent increase in the minimum hourly wage rate to become effective on the following January 1 (Sec. 1).
Legislation - Bill Passed (House) (46-33) - May 24, 2012 (Key vote)
Title: Increases Minimum Wage
Vote to pass a bill that increases the minimum hourly wage.
- Increases the minimum hourly wage from $7.15 per hour to $8.50 per hour, effective July 1, 2012 (Sec. 1).
- Requires the minimum hourly wage to be adjusted in direct proportion to any increase from the preceding calendar year in the Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers in the New York City and Philadelphia areas beginning in 2013 and effective July 1 of each year (Sec. 1).
Legislation - Introduced (House) - Jan. 30, 2012
Title: Increases Minimum Wage
Sponsors
- Gerald C. 'Jerry' Green (NJ - D)
- Louis D. 'Lou' Greenwald (NJ - D)
- Gordon M. Johnson (NJ - D)
- Sheila Y. Oliver (NJ - D)
- Vincent Prieto (NJ - D)
- John S. Wisniewski (NJ - D)
Co-sponsors
- Barbara A. Buono (NJ - D)
- Richard J. Codey (NJ - D)
- Craig Coughlin (NJ - D)
- Sandra Bolden Cunningham (NJ - D)
- Wayne P. DeAngelo (NJ - D)
- Patrick J. Diegnan Jr. (NJ - D)
- Joseph V. Egan (NJ - D)
- Timothy J. Eustace (NJ - D)
- Thomas P. 'Tom' Giblin (NJ - D)
- Linda R. Greenstein (NJ - D)
- Reed Gusciora (NJ - D)
- Mila M. Jasey (NJ - D)
- Raymond J. Lesniak (NJ - D)
- Gabriela M. Mosquera (NJ - D)
- Nellie Pou (NJ - D)
- Celeste M. Riley (NJ - D)
- M. Teresa Ruiz (NJ - D)
- L. Grace Spencer (NJ - D)
- Stephen M. 'Steve' Sweeney (NJ - D)
- Shirley K. Turner (NJ - D)
- Joseph F. Vitale (NJ - D)
- Concetta 'Connie' Wagner (NJ - D)
- Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ - D)
