SENATE BILL 236

52nd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2016

INTRODUCED BY

Pete Campos

AN ACT

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES; AMENDING A SECTION OF THE NMSA 1978 TO PROVIDE FOR A MINIMUM HOURLY WAGE RATE OF TEN DOLLARS TEN CENTS ($10.10) FOR EMPLOYEES OF THE STATE AND STATE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     SECTION 1. Section 10-7-9 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1974, Chapter 10, Section 2) is amended to read:

     "10-7-9. MINIMUM SALARY RATE.--Every state employee and every person regularly employed at a state educational institution named in Article 12, Section 11 of the constitution of New Mexico [constitution], except student employees as defined by the [board of educational finance] higher education department, shall receive a salary [at a rate equal to at least four hundred dollars ($400) per month] calculable at no less than ten dollars ten cents ($10.10) per hour."

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