New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

New Mexico House Bill HB305 Compare Versions

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28	28	HOUSE BILL 305
29	29	57TH LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - FIRST SESSION, 2025
30	30	INTRODUCED BY
31	31	Rebecca Dow and Miguel P. Garc ía
32	32	AN ACT
33	33	RELATING TO PUBLIC CONTRACTS; REQUIRING THAT PUBLIC CONTRACTS
34	34	PROVIDE FOR INCREASED CONTRACTOR AND SUBCONTRACTOR
35	35	REIMBURSEMENT AND WORKER WAGE INCREASES IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND
36	36	CONCURRENT WITH STATE MINIMUM WAGE INCREASES OR INCREASED COSTS
37	37	AS MANDATED BY LAW.
38	38	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
39	39	SECTION 1. A new section of the Minimum Wage Act is
40	40	enacted to read:
41	41	"[NEW MATERIAL] PUBLIC CONTRACTS--SERVICES--MINIMUM WAGE
42	42	INCREASES--INCREASES IN COST MANDATED BY LAW.--
43	43	A. Beginning July 1, 2025, a state agency that
44	44	contracts for services shall include in the terms of that
45	45	contract:
46	46	(1) a provision for increasing reimbursement
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74	74	so that the contractor and any subcontractor to that contract
75	75	are held harmless for any wage increase resulting from an
76	76	increase in the state minimum wage or cost increase resulting
77	77	from a change to statutory benefits; and
78	78	(2) a requirement that individuals employed
79	79	pursuant to that contract or a subcontract of that contract who
80	80	are paid the state minimum wage shall receive wage increases in
81	81	accordance with and concurrent with increases in the state
82	82	minimum wage.
83	83	B. As used in this section:
84	84	(1) "contract" means any agreement for the
85	85	procurement of services;
86	86	(2) "services" means the furnishing of labor,
87	87	time or effort by a contractor or subcontractor not involving
88	88	the delivery of a specific end product other than reports and
89	89	other materials that are merely incidental to the required
90	90	performance;
91	91	(3) "statutory benefits" means any benefit
92	92	that an employer is required by state law to provide to the
93	93	employer's employees; and
94	94	(4) "subcontract" means a contract subordinate
95	95	to another superordinate contract, which subcontract is to
96	96	procure in whole or in part services to be procured under the
97	97	terms of the superordinate contract."
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