To provide consequences to States that reduce their State minimum wage and to redirects Federal funding to those States to the neediest localities.

United States115th CongressHR-7374House of Representatives
Updated: Dec 20, 2018

Summary

Minimum Wage Fairness Act of 2018 This bill requires the Department of Labor to identify each fiscal year any states that have reduced their minimum wage or that have reduced a minimum wage increase that would otherwise become effective. Labor must then notify federal agencies that administer programs in such states and such agencies must reduce the funding for the administrative costs of such programs by a percentage equivalent to the reduction in the minimum wage in such states.

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  1. Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

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