SB 428 fails 17-23

SB 428 was a bill that would have prohibited localities from enforcing living wage laws. Living wage laws – as opposed to minimum wage laws – are designed to index a person’s income working in such a way that will allow that person to live off of 40 hours a week. Currently, the national living wage index is about $8.85/hr for a family of four, and $7.52/hr for a familiy of three. The current minimum wage is $5.15/hr.

Summary of SB 428 as introduced:

Minimum wage. Provides that no public body may require the payment of a minimum wage that exceeds the federal minimum wage to the employees of an employer, or his subcontractor, contracting to provide goods or services to the public body.

YEAS–Bell, Blevins, Bolling, Cuccinelli, Devolites, Martin, Mims, Newman, Obenshain, O’Brien, Rerras, Ruff, Stolle, Stosch, Wagner, Watkins, Williams–17.

NAYS–Chichester, Colgan, Deeds, Edwards, Hanger, Hawkins, Houck, Howell, Lambert, Locke, Lucas, Marsh, Miller, Norment, Potts, Puckett, Puller, Quayle, Reynolds, Saslaw, Ticer, Wampler, Whipple–23.