BILL · 2011–12 SESSION
SB 5839: Minimum wage rate adjustment
Adjusting the minimum wage rate based on changes in consumer prices.
Summary
- Requires calculations of the adjusted minimum wage rate to reflect the actual change in consumer prices since September 1, 2000, based on the consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers or a successor index.
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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
- IntroducedFeb 21, 2011
- Out of committeestopped here
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- Governor
- Law
- Prime sponsor
- Jeff Baxter (R-4)
- Introduced
- February 21, 2011 in the Senate
- Last action
- April 11, 2012
- Companion bill
- HB 1531
AN ACT Relating to adjusting the minimum wage rate based on changes in consumer prices;
Sponsors
Prime sponsor: Jeff Baxter (R-4)
8 co-sponsors (0 Democrats, 8 Republicans)
Votes
No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.
History
- By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
- By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
- By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
- By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
- By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
- First reading, referred to Labor, Commerce & Consumer Protection.
SB 5839 in other sessions
Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.
- SB 5839 (2025–26) County ferry districts
- SB 5839 (2023–24) Working families' tax credit
- SB 5839 (2021–22) Interfering with emergency
- SB 5839 (2019–20) Personal care services pilot
- SB 5839 (2017–18) Rx drug warehousing firms
- SB 5839 (2015–16) Offenses prior to 18 yrs old
- SB 5839 (2013–14) Protection of workers
- SB 5839 (2009–10) Irrigation district admin