HOUSE BILL 1320

File Code: Private Sector Labor and Industry

Sponsored By:

Delegates Marriott, Fulton, Rawlings, and R. Baker

Entitled:

Employment Opportunity and Enterprise Zone Tax Credits - Living Wage

Synopsis:

Establishing a living wage rate; requiring business entities that receive employment opportunity and enterprise zone tax credits for creating new or additional jobs to pay employees the living wage; exempting business entities in their first year of existence from the requirement to pay the living wage for their first year of existence; defining the living wage to be the wage necessary to meet the national poverty level for a family of four, including provision of health insurance, or 110% of the poverty level excluding health insurance.

Legislative History

House Action

2/19

First Reading Ways and Means

Hearing 3/4 at 1:00 p.m.

Senate Action

No Action

Sponsored by:

Delegate Salima Siler Marriott, District 40

Delegate Rushern L. Baker, III, District 22B

Delegate Tony Edward Fulton, District 40

Delegate Howard P. Rawlings, District 40

Bill indexed under the following Subjects:

ENTERPRISE ZONES

SALARIES

TAX CREDITS

WORK, LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT -see also- LEAVE; OVERTIME

Bill affects the following Statutes:

Article - 83A Department of Business and Economic Development

( 5-401 , 5-401 , 5-404 )

Article - 88A Department of Human Resources

( 54 )

Documents:

Bill Text:

First Reading (PDF), Third Reading, Enrolled

Fiscal Note: Available (PDF)