0001|                            HOUSE BILL 695
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0002|     43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 1997
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                              BEN LUJAN
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO LABOR LAW; AMENDING SECTION 50-4-22 NMSA 1978
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0012|     (BEING LAWS 1955, CHAPTER 200, SECTION 3, AS AMENDED) TO RAISE
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0013|     THE MINIMUM WAGE; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
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0014|     
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0015|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0016|          Section 1.  Section 50-4-22 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1955,
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0017|     Chapter 200, Section 3, as amended) is amended to read:
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0018|          "50-4-22.  MINIMUM WAGES.--
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0019|               A.  Every employer, except as <u>otherwise</u> provided
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0020|     in <s>[Section 50-4-21 NMSA 1978]</s> <u>the Minimum Wage Act</u>, shall
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0021|     pay the minimum wage rate <s>[of $4.25 an hour]</s> <u>pursuant to the
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<u></u>0022| <u>    provisions of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as
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<u></u>0023| <u>    amended 
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<u></u>0024| <u>    (29 U.S.C. 206),</u> excepting that an employer furnishing food,
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0025|     utilities, supplies or housing to an employee who is engaged in
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0001|     agriculture may deduct the reasonable value of such furnished
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0002|     items from any wages due to the employee.
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0003|               B.  All employees covered by Subsection A of this
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0004|     section who customarily and regularly receive more than thirty
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0005|     dollars ($30.00) a month in tips shall be paid a minimum hourly
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0006|     wage of <s>[two dollars twelve and one-half cents ($2.125)]</s>
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0007|     <u>fifty percent of the minimum wage as provided in Subsection A
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<u></u>0008| <u>    of this section</u>.  The employer may consider tips as part of
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0009|     wages, but such a wage credit shall not exceed fifty percent of
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0010|     the minimum wage.  All tips received by such employees shall be
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0011|     retained by the employee, except that nothing <s>[herein]</s> <u>in
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<u></u>0012| <u>    this section</u> shall prohibit the pooling of tips among
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0013|     employees.     
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0014|               C.  No employee covered by the provisions of
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0015|     Subsection A of this section shall be required to work more
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0016|     than forty hours in any week of seven days, unless he is paid
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0017|     one and one-half times his regular hourly rate of pay for all
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0018|     hours worked in excess of forty hours."
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0019|          Section 2.  EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public
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0020|     peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.
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0021|                                                         State of New Mexico
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0022|                      House of Representatives
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0023|   
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0024|                      FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE
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0025|                        FIRST SESSION, 1997
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0003|                                               February 25, 1997
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0006|   Mr. Speaker:
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0007|   
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0008|        Your LABOR AND HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE, to
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0009|   whom has been referred
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0010|   
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0011|                   HOUSE BILLS 487 AND 695
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0012|   
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0013|   has had them under consideration and reports same with
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0014|   recommendation that they DO NOT PASS, but that
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0016|          HOUSE LABOR AND HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE
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0017|            SUBSTITUTE FOR HOUSE BILLS 487 AND 695
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0018|   
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0019|   DO PASS, and thence referred to the BUSINESS AND
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0020|   INDUSTRY COMMITTEE.
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0022|                                 Respectfully submitted,
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<u></u>0003| <u>                                </u>                             Rick Miera, Chairman
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0006|   Adopted <u>                    </u>     Not Adopted <u>                    
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0008|             (Chief Clerk)                       (Chief Clerk)
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0010|                        Date <u>            </u>
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0012|   The roll call vote was<u> 7 </u> For<u> 0 </u> Against
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0013|   Yes:      7
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0014|             Excused:  Roberts
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0015|             Absent:   None
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