Labor & Employment

Minimum Wage
2000 Enactments and Vetoes

The following table includes enacted and vetoed 2000 legislation pertaining to state minimum wage standards. See also 1999 minimum wage enactments and vetoes. For information regarding current state minimum wage laws, please contact Jeanne Mejeur at 303-364-7700.

Legislation Summary Final Action

Connecticut
HB5160 Increases the minimum wage effective January 1, 2001, not less than six dollars and forty cents per hour, and effective January 1, 2002, six dollars and seventy cents per hour. Enacted

Maine
LD357 Raises the minimum wage Veto sustained

Maine
LD1262 Increases the minimum wage in Maine Held (Pocket Veto)

New Mexico
SB300 Increases the state minimum wage; provides for a training wage less than the minimum wage for the first 90 days of employment to persons under the age of 20 VETOED

Rhode Island
SB2723 Increases the minimum wage commencing September 1, 2000 to $6.15 per hour. Signed

Rhode Island
HB6904 Raises the minimum wage on September 1, 2000 $6.15 per hour. Signed

Source: NCSL
For additional information, please contact:
	Justin Marks NCSL, Employment and Insurance (303) 364-7700
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Minimum Wage 2000 Enactments and Vetoes

Minimum Wage
2000 Enactments and Vetoes