Florida Senate - 2025                                     SB 676
       
       
        
       By Senator Martin
       
       
       
       
       
       33-01587-25                                            2025676__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to minimum wage requirements; amending
    3         s. 448.110, F.S.; providing that an employer is not
    4         subject to certain minimum wage requirements for
    5         specified employees; authorizing employees to opt out
    6         of the minimum wage requirements in a specified
    7         manner; providing an effective date.
    8          
    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Subsection (3) of section 448.110, Florida
   12  Statutes, is amended to read:
   13         448.110 State minimum wage; annual wage adjustment;
   14  enforcement.—
   15         (3)(a) Employers shall pay employees a minimum wage at an
   16  hourly rate of $6.15 for all hours worked in Florida. Only those
   17  individuals entitled to receive the federal minimum wage under
   18  the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, as amended, and its
   19  implementing regulations shall be eligible to receive the state
   20  minimum wage pursuant to s. 24, Art. X of the State Constitution
   21  and this section. The provisions of ss. 213 and 214 of the
   22  federal Fair Labor Standards Act, as interpreted by applicable
   23  federal regulations and implemented by the Secretary of Labor,
   24  are incorporated herein.
   25         (b) An employer is not subject to the minimum wage
   26  requirements of this section for an employee who is in a
   27  structured work-study, internship, preapprenticeship, or
   28  apprenticeship program or other similar work-based learning
   29  opportunity and such employee opts out of receiving the minimum
   30  wage. The employee may opt out of receiving the minimum wage by:
   31         1. Checking a box on an application form to opt out of the
   32  minimum wage requirements; or
   33         2. Providing the employer with a written acknowledgment
   34  signed by the employee that the employee is opting out of the
   35  minimum wage requirements.
   36         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.