GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2005
SESSION LAW 2006-114
HOUSE BILL 2174
AN ACT to Raise the minimum wage in North Carolina.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 95-25.3(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a) Every employer shall pay to each employee who in any workweek performs any work, wages of at least six dollars and fifteen cents ($6.15) per hour or the minimum wage set forth in paragraph 1 of section 6(a) of the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. 206(a)(1), as that wage may change from time to time, whichever is higher, except as otherwise provided in this section."
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective January 1, 2007.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 11th day of July, 2006.
s/ Beverly E. Perdue
President of the Senate
s/ James B. Black
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ Michael F. Easley
Governor
Approved 11:12 a.m. this 13th day of July, 2006