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S. 2223: Minimum Wage Fairness Act

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S. 2223: Minimum Wage Fairness Act

113th Congress · introduced 2014-04-08 · Labor and Employment · Latest: Motion by Senator Reid to reconsider the vote by which cloture was not invoked on the motion to proceed to the measure (Record Vote No. 117) entered in Senate. (consideration: CR S2527-2528, S2535-2543, S2543-2546, S2546-2547, S2548-2549)

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2014-04-08 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: 1 recorded vote in our records. Latest: Senate vote 117 (2014): On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed, S2223 (2014-04-30), Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected. See all
  4. Where it stands now: Motion by Senator Reid to reconsider the vote by which cloture was not invoked on the motion to proceed to the measure (Record Vote No. 117) entered in Senate. (consideration: CR S2527-2528, S2535-2543, S2543-2546, S2546-2547, S2548-2549) Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

Minimum Wage Fairness Act

Plain summary

Minimum Wage Fairness Act - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) to increase the federal minimum wage for employees to: (1) $8.20 an hour beginning on the first day of the sixth month after the enactment of this Act, (2) $9.15 an hour beginning one year after the date of such initial increase, (3) $10.10 an hour beginning two years after such date, and (4) the amount determined by the Secretary of Labor (based on increases in the Consumer Price Index) beginning three years after such date and annually thereafter. Increases the federal minimum wage for tipped employees to $3.00 an hour for one year beginning on the first day of the sixth month after the enactment of this Act. Provides a formula for subsequent annual adjustments of the minimum wage for tipped employees until it equals 70% of the wage in effect under FLSA for other employees. Directs the Secretary of Labor, 60 days before any increase in the minimum wage, to publish it in the Federal Register and on the Department of Labor's website. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through taxable years beginning before 2017: (1) the increase to $500,000 of the expensing allowance for business assets, including computer software; and (2) the treatment of qualified real property (i.e., leasehold improvement property, restaurant property, and retail improvement property) as depreciable business property.

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Minimum Wage Fairness Act

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Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA] · 39 cosponsors

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Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Bernard Sanders (I-VT), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Christopher Murphy (D-CT), Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY), Michael F. Bennet (D-CO), Brian Schatz (D-HI), Cory A. Booker (D-NJ), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Jack Reed (D-RI), Richard J. Durbin (D-IL), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Christopher A. Coons (D-DE), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Patty Murray (D-WA), Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), Charles E. Schumer (D-NY)

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Record fed-us-cong113-s2223 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong113 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong113