| 1 | A bill to be entitled |
| 2 | An act relating to the state minimum wage; amending s. |
| 3 | 448.110, F.S.; providing requirements for the adjustment |
| 4 | of the state minimum wage; providing an effective date. |
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| 6 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 8 | Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (4) of section |
| 9 | 448.110, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: |
| 10 | 448.110 State minimum wage; annual wage adjustment; |
| 11 | enforcement.- |
| 12 | (4)(a) Beginning September 30, 2005, and annually on |
| 13 | September 30 thereafter, the Agency for Workforce Innovation |
| 14 | shall calculate an adjusted state minimum wage rate by |
| 15 | increasing the state minimum wage by the rate of inflation for |
| 16 | the 12 months prior to September 1. In calculating the adjusted |
| 17 | state minimum wage, the agency shall use the Consumer Price |
| 18 | Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers, not |
| 19 | seasonally adjusted, for the South Region or a successor index |
| 20 | as calculated by the United States Department of Labor. To |
| 21 | determine the adjusted state minimum wage rate, the agency shall |
| 22 | first calculate the difference between the Consumer Price Index |
| 23 | from August of the previous year and from August of the current |
| 24 | year and apply that difference to the previous year's wage rate |
| 25 | calculation. The adjusted state minimum wage rate takes effect |
| 26 | as the Florida minimum wage, as defined in s. 448.109(1)(b), |
| 27 | when both the previous year's Florida minimum wage and the |
| 28 | federal minimum wage are lower than the adjusted state minimum |
| 29 | wage rate. Each adjusted state minimum wage rate shall take |
| 30 | effect on the following January 1, with the initial adjusted |
| 31 | minimum wage rate to take effect on January 1, 2006. |
| 32 | Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2011. |