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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 58th Legislature (2021)
SENATE BILL 332 By: Boren
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to minimum wage; amending 40 O.S.
2011, Sections 197.2, 197.3 and 197.5, which relate
to minimum wage, Commissioner of Labor, and employees
covered by the Oklahoma Minimum Wage Act; deleting
language; modifying references; changing from federal
minimum wage to a state minimum wage; dire cting the
Commissioner of Labor to enfo rce state minimum wage;
establishing a schedule of minimum wage increases;
tying minimum wage to Consumer Price Index after
certain date; providing an effective date; and
declaring an emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLA HOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 40 O.S. 2011, Section 197.2, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 197.2. It shall be unlawful to employ workers in any
industry or occupation within the State of Oklahoma under conditions
of labor detrimental to their health or moral s and it shall be
unlawful to employ workers in any indu stry within the State of
Oklahoma at wages which are not adequate for their maintenance .
Except as otherwise provided in the Oklahoma Minimu m Wage Act, no
employer within the State of Oklahoma shall pay any employee a wage
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of less than the current federal state minimum wage for all hours
worked.
SECTION 2. AMENDATORY 40 O.S. 2011, Section 197.3, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 197.3. A. The Wage and Hour Commission is hereb y
terminated and all powers and duties of such Commission are
transferred to the Commissioner of Labor. All personnel, funds,
financial obligations and encumbrances, records, e quipment,
furniture, fixtures, files and s upplies under the control of the
Wage and Hour Commission are transferred to the Commissioner of
Labor as of the effective date of this act on July 1, 1978.
B. The Commissioner of Labor shall establish, pursuant t o this
act, such enforce standards of this state’s minimum wages and
establish conditions of labor for employees within the State of
Oklahoma as shall be reasonable and not detrimental to health and
morals.
SECTION 3. AMENDATORY 40 O.S. 2011, Section 197.5, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 197.5. Every employer shall pay to each of his or her
employees who have reached eighteen (18) years of age wages at a
rate of not less than Two Dollars ($2.00) the federal minimum wa ge
of Seven Dollars and twenty-five cents ($7.25) per hour on January
1, 2021, until December 31, 2021. Regardless of other provisions of
the Oklahoma Minimum Wage Act, every Beginning January 1, 2022, the
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state minimum wage shall be Eight Dollars and fifty cents ( $8.50)
per hour. Beginning on Janua ry 1, 2023, the state minimum wage
shall be Nine Dollars and seventy-five cents ($9.75) per hour.
Beginning on January 1, 2024, the state minimum wage shall be Eleven
Dollars ($11.00) per hour. Beginning January 1, 2025, the state
minimum wage shall be Thirteen Dollars ($13.00) per hour. Beginning
January 1, 2026, the state minimum wage shall be Fifteen Dollars
($15.00) per hour. Beginning on January 1, 2027, and every January
1 thereafter, the state minimum wage shall increase according to the
Consumer Price Index (CPI) percentage increase from the prior year.
Every employee of the State of Oklahoma or any lessee or
concessionaire thereof is hereby specifically covered by the
Oklahoma Minimum Wage Act and the minimum wage per hour set by this
section.
SECTION 4. This act shall become effe ctive July 1, 2021.
SECTION 5. It being immediately necessary for the pr eservation
of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby
declared to exist, by reason whereof thi s act shall take effect and
be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
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