Revision: Jan. 11, 2012, midnight
HB 494-FN – AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE
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2011 SESSION
06/10
HOUSE BILL 494-FN
AN ACT relative to tipped employees who deal card and table games at games of chance venues.
SPONSORS: Rep. Infantine, Hills 13
COMMITTEE: Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
This bill adds employees who deal cards and table games at games of chance venues to those tipped employees who receive a certain base hourly rate from their employers.
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11-0711
06/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eleven
AN ACT relative to tipped employees who deal card and table games at games of chance venues.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Minimum Hourly Rate; Tipped Employees. Amend the introductory paragraph of RSA 279:21 to read as follows:
Unless otherwise provided by statute, no person, firm, or corporation shall employ any employee at an hourly rate lower than that set forth in the federal minimum wage law, as amended.
Tipped employees of a restaurant, hotel, motel, inn or cabin, or primary game operator as defined by RSA 287-D:1, V(a), who customarily and regularly receive more than $30 a month in tips directly from the customers will receive a base rate from the employer of not less than 45 percent of the applicable minimum wage. If an employee shows to the satisfaction of the commissioner that the actual amount of wages received at the end of each pay period did not equal the minimum wage for all hours worked, the employer shall pay the employee the difference to guarantee the applicable minimum wage. The limitations imposed hereby shall be subject to the following exceptions:
2 Minimum Hourly Rate; Tipped Employees. Amend the introductory paragraph of RSA 279:21 to read as follows:
Unless otherwise provided by statute, no person, firm, or corporation shall employ any employee at an hourly rate lower than that set forth in the federal minimum wage law, as amended.
Tipped employees of a restaurant, hotel, motel, inn or cabin, who customarily and regularly receive more than $30 a month in tips directly from the customers will receive a base rate from the employer of not less than 45 percent of the applicable minimum wage. If an employee shows to the satisfaction of the commissioner that the actual amount of wages received at the end of each pay period did not equal the minimum wage for all hours worked, the employer shall pay the employee the difference to guarantee the applicable minimum wage. The limitations imposed hereby shall be subject to the following exceptions:
3 Effective Date.
I. Section 2 of this act shall take effect June 30, 2014.
II. The remainder of this act shall take effect July 1, 2012.
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11-0711
Revised 03/04/11
HB 494 FISCAL NOTE
AN ACT relative to tipped employees who deal card and table games at games of chance venues.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The Department of Labor states this bill will have no fiscal impact on state, county, and local revenues or expenditures.
METHODOLOGY:
The Department of Labor states this bill adds employees who deal cards and table games at games of chance venues to those tipped employees who receive a certain base hourly rate from their employers. The Department states this bill will not impact public entities and therefore will have no fiscal impact on state, county, and local revenues or expenditures.