0001|                        SENATE BILL 508
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0002|     42ND LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION,
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0003|     1996
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0004|                         INTRODUCED BY
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0005|                        TOM R. BENAVIDES
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0011|                             AN ACT
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0012|     RELATING TO LABOR CONDITIONS; RAISING THE STATE MINIMUM WAGE
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0013|     RATE.
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0015|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0016|       Section 1.  Section 50-4-22 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1955,
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0017|     Chapter 200, Section 3, as amended) is amended to read:
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0018|       "50-4-22.  MINIMUM WAGES.--
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0019|            A.  Every employer, except as provided in Section
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0020|     50-4-21 NMSA 1978, shall pay the minimum wage rate of <s>[$4.25]</s>
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0021|     <u>six dollars ($6.00)</u> an hour, excepting that an employer
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0022|     furnishing food, utilities, supplies or housing to an employee
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0023|     who is engaged in agriculture may deduct the reasonable value of
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0024|     such furnished items from any wages due to the employee.
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0025|            B.  All employees covered by Subsection A of this
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0001|     section who customarily and regularly receive more than thirty
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0002|     dollars ($30.00) a month in tips shall be paid a minimum hourly
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0003|     wage of <s>[two dollars twelve and one-half cents ($2.125)]</s>
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0004|     <u>three dollars ($3.00)</u>.  The employer may consider tips as part
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0005|     of wages, but such a wage credit shall not exceed fifty percent
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0006|     of the minimum wage.  All tips received by such employees shall
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0007|     be retained by the employee, except that nothing <s>[herein]</s> <u>in
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<u></u>0008| <u>    this section</u> shall prohibit the pooling of tips among
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0009|     employees.  
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0010|            C.  No employee covered by the provisions of
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0011|     Subsection A of this section shall be required to work more than
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0012|     forty hours in any week of seven days, unless he is paid one and
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0013|     one-half times his regular hourly rate of pay for all hours
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0014|     worked in excess of forty hours."
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