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[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2617 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.2617

                     One Hundred Fourteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America

                          AT THE FIRST SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
           the sixth day of January, two thousand and fifteen

                                 An Act

 
    To amend the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007 to reduce a scheduled 
       increase in the minimum wage applicable to American Samoa.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. MINIMUM WAGE FOR AMERICAN SAMOA.
    (a) Minimum Wage.--Paragraph (2) of section 8103(b) of the Fair 
Minimum Wage Act of 2007 (29 U.S.C. 206 note) is amended to read as 
follows:
        ``(2) the minimum wage applicable to American Samoa under 
    section 6(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 
    206(a)(1)) shall be--
            ``(A) the applicable wage rate in effect for each industry 
        and classification as of September 29, 2015; and
            ``(B) increased by $0.40 an hour (or such lesser amount as 
        may be necessary to equal the minimum wage under section 
        6(a)(1) of such Act), beginning on September 30, 2015, and on 
        September 30 of every third year thereafter, until the minimum 
        wage applicable to American Samoa under this paragraph is equal 
        to the minimum wage set forth in such section.''.
    (b) GAO Reports.--Section 8104 of the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007 
(29 U.S.C. 206 note) is amended--
        (1) in subsection (a)--
            (A) by striking ``September 1, 2011'' and inserting ``April 
        1, 2017''; and
            (B) by striking the second sentence and inserting the 
        following: ``The Government Accountability Office shall submit 
        a subsequent report not later than April 1, 2020.'';
        (2) in subsection (b), by striking ``the study under subsection 
    (a)'' and inserting ``any report under subsection (a)''; and
        (3) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(c) Report on Alternative Methods of Increasing the Minimum Wage 
in American Samoa.--Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment 
of `An Act to amend the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007 to reduce a 
scheduled increase in the minimum wage applicable to American Samoa', 
the Government Accountability Office shall transmit to Congress a 
report on alternative ways of increasing the minimum wage in American 
Samoa to keep pace with the cost of living in American Samoa and to 
eventually equal the minimum wage set forth in section 6(a)(1) of the 
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 206(a)(1)).''.
    (c) Effective Date.--This Act, and the amendments made by this Act, 
shall take effect as of September 29, 2015.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.
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