House Bill 1417 Summary

• Establishes Mississippi state minimum wage at $15.00 per hour, effective July 1, 2019, with automatic annual cost-of-living adjustments based on the Consumer Price Index (rounded to nearest $0.05).

• Requires overtime compensation at 1.5 times regular rate for employees earning $455.00 or less per week, and extends overtime eligibility to manual laborers, law enforcement, and other categories regardless of salary.

• Prohibits counties and municipalities from setting their own minimum wage or mandatory leave policies, reserving such authority for the state legislature to maintain economic uniformity.

• Brings forward nine existing Mississippi Code sections (7-7-204, 17-1-51, 23-15-239, 25-3-40, 37-7-307, 57-34-5, 85-3-4, 97-3-54.4, and 99-19-20) for possible amendment without substantive changes in this bill.