Key Votes
HCS HB 305 - Minimum Wage Increase - Key Vote
Kentucky Key Votes
Stages
- March 22, 2007 Executive Signed
- March 8, 2007 Senate Bill Passed
- Feb. 21, 2007 House Bill Passed
- Feb. 15, 2007 Introduced
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Issues
Stage Details
Legislation - Signed (Executive) - March 22, 2007
Title: Minimum Wage Increase
Signed by Governor Ernest Fletcher
Legislation - Bill Passed (Senate) (33-1) - March 8, 2007
Legislation - Bill Passed (House) (89-10) - Feb. 21, 2007 (Key vote)
Title: Minimum Wage Increase
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill raising the minimum wage in three increments to $7.25 an hour by July 1, 2009.
Highlights:
- Raises the minimum wage to $5.85 upon passage, to $6.55 on July 1, 2008, and then to $7.25 on July 1, 2009 [sec. 1(1)].
- Specifies that if the federal minimum wage exceeds that of the state, the state will equal the federal wage [sec. 1(1)].
- Specifies that employees earning more than $30 per month in tips are subject to federal minimum wage law for tipped employees [sec. 1(2)].
Note:
NOTE: THIS IS A SUBSTITUTE BILL, MEANING THE LANGUAGE OF THE ORIGINAL BILL HAS BEEN REPLACED. THE DEGREE TO WHICH THE SUBSTITUTE BILL TEXT DIFFERS FROM THE PREVIOUS VERSION OF THE TEXT CAN VARY GREATLY.
Legislation - Introduced (House) - Feb. 15, 2007
Title: Minimum Wage Increase
Sponsors
- J.R. Gray (KY - D) (Out Of Office)
Co-sponsors
- Rocky Adkins (KY - D)
- Thomas J. 'Tom' Burch (KY - D)
- Michael E. 'Mike' Cherry (KY - D) (Out Of Office)
- Lawrence D. 'Larry' Clark (KY - D)
- Hubert Collins (KY - D)
- Leslie A. Combs (KY - D)
- Jesse Crenshaw (KY - D)
- Ted 'Teddy' Edmonds (KY - D) (Out Of Office)
- Tim Firkins (KY - D) (Out Of Office)
- James H. 'Jim' Glenn Jr. (KY - D)
- Derrick W. Graham (KY - D)
- W. Keith Hall (KY - D)
- Charles R. 'Charlie' Hoffman (KY - D) (Out Of Office)
- Dennis Horlander (KY - D)
- Dennis Keene (KY - D)
- Mary Lou Marzian (KY - D)
- Reginald K. Meeks (KY - D)
- Charles W. Miller (KY - D)
- Rick G. Nelson (KY - D)
- Fred Nesler (KY - D) (Out Of Office)
- Thomas N. 'Tom' Riner (KY - D)
- Carl P. Rollins II (KY - D) (Out Of Office)
- Dottie J. Sims (KY - D) (Out Of Office)
- Ancel 'Hard Rock' Smith (KY - D) (Out Of Office)
- John Will Stacy (KY - D)
- Kathy W. Stein (KY - D) (Out Of Office)
- Tommy N. Thompson (KY - D)
- David Allen Watkins (KY - D)
- Jim Wayne (KY - D)
- Robert D. 'Rob' Wilkey (KY - D) (Out Of Office)
- Brent Yonts (KY - D)
