GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2005

HOUSE BILL 2174

RATIFIED BILL

AN ACT to Raise the minimum wage in North Carolina.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 95‑25.3(a) reads as rewritten:

"(a)      Every employer shall pay to each employee who in any workweek performs any work, wages of at least six dollars and fifteen cents ($6.15) per hour or the minimum wage set forth in paragraph 1 of section 6(a) of the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. 206(a)(1), as that wage may change from time to time, whichever is higher, except as otherwise provided in this section."

SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective January 1, 2007.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 11^th day of July, 2006.

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                                                                         Beverly E. Perdue

                                                                         President of the Senate

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                                                                         James B. Black

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

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                                                                         Michael F. Easley

                                                                         Governor

Approved __________.m. this ______________ day of ___________________, 2006