Three minimum wage bills fail to pass committee
All but one of the bills in the state Legislature that would raise the minimum hourly wage appear to be dead.
Earlier this month, four bills were introduced that would have increased the minimum wage in Hawaii from the current $10.10 an hour to three different rates. Two bills proposed incremental yearly increases that would eventually end at $17 an hour, while another proposed an increase to $11 an hour beginning next year.
All three of those bills have failed to move past their first committee, with the only bill showing any sign of life being Senate Bill 676, which would increase the minimum wage to $12 an hour beginning in 2022. That bill passed its second reading in the Senate on Tuesday.
