First Regular Session
               Seventieth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
 
 
 LLS NO. R15-1097.01 Yelana Love x2295            SCR15-003
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                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
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               SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 15-003 
       Submitting to the registered electors of the state of
            Colorado an amendment to the Colorado constitution
            concerning an increase in the statewide minimum wage,
            and, in connection therewith, raising the minimum wage
            to $9.50 on January 1, 2017, $10.50 on January 1, 2018,
            $11.50 on January 1, 2019, and $12.50 on January 1, 2020.
       
       
                        Resolution Summary
       
            (Note:  This summary applies to this resolution as introduced and
       does not reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted. If this
       resolution passes third reading in the house of introduction, a resolution
       summary that applies to the reengrossed version of this resolution will be
       available at http://www.leg.state.co.us/billsummaries.)
       
            The concurrent resolution incrementally increases the statewide
       minimum wage from the current amount of $8.23 to $12.50 from January
       1, 2017, to January 1, 2020, as follows:
                 January 1, 2017 - $9.50;
                 January 1, 2018 - $10.50;
                 January 1, 2019 - $11.50;
                 January 1, 2020 - $12.50.
       
       
       
            Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Seventieth General Assembly
       of the State of Colorado, the House of Representatives concurring herein:
            SECTION 1.  At the election held on November 8, 2016, the
       secretary of state shall submit to the registered electors of the state the
       ballot title set forth in section 2 for the following amendment to the state
       constitution:
            In the constitution of the state of Colorado, amend section 15 of
       article XVIII as follows:
            Section 15.  State minimum wage rate. (1) (a)  Effective January
       1, 2007 2017, Colorado's minimum wage shall be increased to $6.85
       $9.50 per hour. and
            (b)  Effective January 1, 2018, Colorado's minimum wage
       shall be increased to $10.50 per hour.
            (c)  Effective January 1, 2019, Colorado's minimum wage
       shall be increased to $11.50 per hour.
            (d)  Effective January 1, 2020, Colorado's minimum wage
       shall be increased to $12.50 per hour.
            (2)  Effective January 1, 2021, the minimum wage shall be
       adjusted increased annually for inflation, as measured by the Consumer
       Price Index used for Colorado.
            (3)  This The minimum wage in subsection (1) of this section
       shall be paid to employees who receive the state or federal minimum
       wage.
            (4)  No more than $3.02 per hour in tip income may be used to
       offset the minimum wage of employees who regularly receive tips.
            SECTION 2.  Each elector voting at the election may cast a vote
       either "Yes/For" or "No/Against" on the following ballot title: "Shall
       there be an amendment to the Colorado constitution concerning an
       increase in the statewide minimum wage, and, in connection therewith,
       raising the minimum wage to $9.50 on January 1, 2017, $10.50 on
       January 1, 2018, $11.50 on January 1, 2019, and $12.50 on January 1,
       2020?".
            SECTION 3.  Except as otherwise provided in section 1-40-123,
       Colorado Revised Statutes, if a majority of the electors voting on the
       ballot title vote "Yes/For", then the amendment will become part of the
       state constitution.