129th MAINE LEGISLATURE SECOND REGULAR SESSION-2020

Legislative Document No. 1965 H.P. 1409 House of Representatives, January 8, 2020

An Act To Set a Minimum Wage for School Support Staff

Approved for introduction by a majority of the Legislative Council pursuant to Joint Rule 203. Reference to the Committee on Labor and Housing suggested and ordered printed.

ROBERT B. HUNT Clerk

Presented by Representative COLLINGS of Portland.

Printed on recycled paper 1 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

2 Sec. 1. 20-A MRSA §4014 is enacted to read: 3 §4014. Minimum wage for school support staff

4 Beginning with the 2020-2021 school year, the minimum hourly wage for school 5 support staff is $16.00 per hour. For the purposes of this section, "school support staff" 6 means a public school employee who is not an administrator, as defined in section 7 13001-A, subsection 1, or a certified teacher subject to the minimum salary requirement 8 pursuant to section 13407.

9 SUMMARY 10 This bill establishes a minimum wage of $16.00 per hour for school support staff.

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